[3] The regiment's anniversary falls, as for all units of the Italian Army's Transport and Materiel Corps, on 22 May, the anniversary of the Royal Italian Army's first major use of automobiles to transport reinforcements to the Asiago plateau to counter the Austro-Hungarian Asiago Offensive in May 1916.

On 31 August 1982, the 4th Army Corps Auto Group "Claudia" in Eppan was disbanded and the next day the disbanded group's two mixed auto units were used to form a medium transport company and two mixed transport companies, which were assigned to the 4th Maneuver Logistic Battalion.

[5] As per army naming convention for logistic units supporting corps-level commands the battalion was named for a geographic feature in the corps' area of operations; in case of the 24th battalion for the Dolomites mountains (Italian: Dolomiti).

[1][6] On 13 July 1987, President of the Italian Republic Francesco Cossiga granted the battalion a flag, which arrived in Bolzano on 22 May 1988.

[1][5][6] During the 1990s the "Dolomiti" battalion participated in international peacekeeping missions in Albania, Somalia (Unified Task Force and United Nations Operation in Somalia II) and Mozambique (United Nations Operation in Mozambique).