Europe's road freight network carried more weight in 2025, yet moved no faster toward integration — a quiet signal that the continent's logistics body is growing denser at its core while its longer limbs grow still. The 0.9 percent rise in tonne-kilometres, against a steeper 1.8 percent gain in raw tonnage, reveals a system straining inward: goods are heavier, routes are shorter, and the appetite for complex cross-border movement is cooling. Poland and Germany anchor the whole architecture, together with Spain, France, and Italy forming a spine that bears two-thirds of all European road freigh