Who we are

The Provincial Administration grants the new Perego Company the first regular passenger transport service with the Tirano - Bormio - Bagni line. After the war, the fleet was enriched with new vehicles recovered from the remnant of the war and transformed into cars. This is how the Bagni di Bormio - Stelvio, Bormio - Santa Caterina Valfurva and Tirano - Edolo - Ponte di Legno lines come into service. Carlo Perego provides some sturdy vehicles, used in the "special transport" of bulky and heavy parts for turbines and pylons, together with building material, for the construction of the first hydroelectric plants in Alta Valtellina.

These were lucky years for the Perego company, which left its first offices on the corner of Via Manzoni to move to the new Art Nouveau building in Piazza Marinoni, which became the company's headquarters. Subsequently, the new departures offices in Bormio and Bolladore were built, the latter of significant importance given the new concession obtained for the Sanatorium Village of Sondalo. Carlo Perego died in Lecco on October 18, 1939 at the age of 57, leaving his large family in pain.

The entry of Italy into the world conflict on 10 June 1940 immediately made its negative effects felt in the company: a dozen vehicles were requisitioned by the military authority, part of the staff was recalled to arms and the procurement of fuel, tires and parts became more and more problematic. Despite all the restrictions, the Perego firm was able to maintain at least all the postal lines. During the difficult years of the war, the damages for the Perego Company were considerable: from the German occupation of the hotel at the Stelvio Pass with relative devastation of the furnishings and the structure, to the aerial bombardment of the building in Piazza Marinoni in Tirano, to the requisition of the vehicles by the German armed forces, to the strafing of a truck in Val di Non.

The national and international lines of gran turismo become a reality. Some of the most important are the St. Moritz - Tirano - P.so Tonale - Trento daily bus line since 1947. In 1950, the summer line Milan - Merano - Bolzano via P.so Stelvio and the Tirano - Edolo - Brescia came into operation; from 1953 the Sondrio - P.so Stelvio - Innsbuck and, in the same year, the St. Moritz - Tirano - Trento - Padua - Venice. In 1962 it was the turn of the inauguration of the Valtellina - Adriatic Riviera bus line followed by the Bormio - Sanremo, true avant-garde services towards the sea and the holiday resorts. Perego accompanied the cyclists of the Giro d’Italia several times during the 1960s, pushing them as far as Sicily. For his shrewd managerial activity, Giancarlo Perego is awarded the prestigious title of Official Knight of Labor.

Growing up at the school of his father Giancarlo, even in the young Carlo, the youngest of three children, he could only ignite a passion for the world of transport. At the age of twenty-one, he obtained his driving license D and, with great satisfaction, in the early 1980s he joined the automobile company, first driving buses and then gradually taking over from his father. The new needs of "out of the valley" tourism impose new choices: in fact, rental requests for holiday trips in Italy and abroad are increasing. The second generational change takes place without difficulty in the wake of family tradition while the young people of the fourth generation Vittorio and Nicolò are already appearing in the work.