[3][4] 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.

[3][5] In August 1920, the I Automobilistic Center was formed in Turin and assigned to the I Army Corps.

In the evening of 8 September 1943, the Armistice of Cassibile, which ended hostilities between the Kingdom of Italy and the Anglo-American Allies, was announced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower on Radio Algiers and by Marshal Pietro Badoglio on Italian radio.

Germany reacted by invading Italy and the 1st Drivers Regiment was disbanded soon thereafter by German forces.

The center was tasked with the transport of fuel, ammunition, and materiel between the military region's depots and the logistic supply points of the army's divisions and brigades.

[6] On 1 October 1990, the 1st Mixed Maneuver Auto Unit was reorganized as 1st Transport Battalion "Monviso".

Transport battalions formed after the 1986 army reform were named after a landmark mountain in the military region's area of operations; in case of the 1st Transport Battalion for the highest mountain of the Cottian Alps the Monviso.

The next day the personnel and materiel of the two battalions were used to from the 1st Military Region Logistic Unit "Monviso" in Venaria Reale.