Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations Report

Federation of elevator car Dealers Associations Home Truck Freightage Defies Trends in Economy IFTRT Report Defying the cheerful data being sales outletd by various agencies about the expansion of economical activities and soaring corporate profits, the trucking business organisation, consisting of 3 million trucks, has failed to look up in last 4 weeks. The truck freightage has remained flat on most of the trunk routes despite increase in cost of summons due to 2 diesel price hikes (Dec 31 and Dec 15&8242 03) totaling Rs. 2/- per litre (10%) and have, in fact, sharply declined on trunk routes enactment through Uttar Pradesh due to resumption of overloading by trucks. On the other draw various solid ground Governments had withdrawn Gold token/ passes/ cards, which permitted over-loading of trucks in redundance of permitted freight, in order to get release of their shargon of cardinal street shop withheld since April 2003. The fundamental Governm ent has stopped Central Road Fund to those take Governments, which were not only permitting but sponsoring overloading of trucks in contravention of Central Motor Vehicle Act, 1988 by issuing Gold Cards/ passes/ tokens to truckers once morest resolute monthly/ quarterly fee. The Central Government has taken a cockeyed view that over-loading of the vehicles cause significant damage to road surface Recently, the State Government of Uttar Pradesh withdrew the Gold Card scheme w. e. f. Dec. 15, 03 and a month by and by Rajasthan did the same w. e. f. 1, Jan 04. The subsequent stringent enforcement of CMV Act, 1988 by U. P. Transport surgical incision by not permitting the entry/passing through of overloaded trucks from the State resulted in sharp increase in truck freightage by 4% 7. 5% during the fortnight (Dec 1, Dec 15, 03) and unsettled the trucking business in region. However, this anti-overloading drive was short-lived and has collapsed in the U. P. State, by and la rge. Now, overloaded trucks are plying and passing through the State merrily.Thus, truck freightage once again is being dictated by the over-loading of vehicles that existed before Dec. 1, 03. In the last cardinal weeks the truck freightage for the trunk routes passing through U. P. has dropped by 3. 5% 6. 8%, according to the monthly update released by Indian al-Qaida of Transport Training &038 Research (IFTRT). Union Government outsmarted by Rajasthan Followed by U. P. the Rajasthan Government, too, had withdrawn its Gold card/token scheme from 1, Jan 04 to get the Central Road Fund released immediately. However, the State Government, very smartly has replaced the earlier particular(prenominal) Gold Token Scheme with another AMNESTY SCHEME by charging multi slab fee to permit unhindered over-loading of trucks in excess of prescribed weight limit. The 1st Jan. 04 notification has been modified to pacify the Central Government, which had again refused to release the money from Central Road Fund. But, plying of over loaded commercial vehicles continues infra the patronage of State Transport Department, points out the report. TRUCK (16. 2 gross ton GVW) Hire charges/rates (Rs. per round trip 21 Dec03 21 Jan04 path / Round Trip Period Truck Hire charges Diesel terms increase Impact 9 ton pay load falsify/Round Trip/Period (per round trip) 31 Dec03 21 Dec03 21 Jan04 Hire Charges Hire Charges 21 Dec03 21 Jan04 Rs. % Rs. % Delhi Mumbai Delhi 28,800/- 28,800/- No Change NC (+) 620/- (+) 5 Delhi Nagpur Delhi 28,400/- 28,400/- No Change NC (+) 610/- (+) 5 Delhi Kolkata Delhi 34,700/- 33,000/- (-) 1,700/- (-) 5. 0 (+) 630/- (+) 5 Delhi Guwahati Delhi 69,400/- 67,000/- (-) 2,400/- (-) 3. (+) 850/- (+) 5 Delhi Hyderabad Delhi 43,100/- 43,100/- No Change NC (+) 770/- (+) 5 Delhi Chennai Delhi 59,000/- 59,000/- No Change NC (+) 870/- (+) 5 Delhi Bangalore Delhi 44,800/- 45,000/- (+) 200/- (+) 0. 5 (+) 7 70/- (+) 5 Delhi Ranchi Delhi 33,300/- 31,300/- (-) 2,000/- (-) 6. 8 (+) 620/- (+) 5 Delhi Raipur Delhi 29,300/- 29,300/- No Change NC (+) 630/- (+) 5 Delhi Kandla Delhi 18,300/- 18,300/- No Change NC (+) 340/- (+) 5 Delhi Bilaspur Delhi 30,300/- 30,300/- No Change NC (+) 620/- (+) 5