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Axle load norms: Tata Motors rethinking strategy on heavy-duty truck biz

Tata group flagship has been riding high on a robust demand of heavy-duty trucks and a significant market share gains on back of a pick-up in road infrastructure projects and construction activities

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Tata Motors ended 2017-18 with a market share of 45.1 per cent in the CV market, marginally up from 44.4 per cent in the previous year

Shally Seth Mohile Mumbai
Tata Motors is recalibrating its strategy for its medium and commercial vehicle business in the wake of the regulation on axle load. Besides re-engineering the current new BS-VI compliant models, the maker of the Prima and Ultra range of trucks is also reconfiguring the prototypes it has been running for the BS-VI models, Girish Wagh, president-commercial vehicles told Business Standard.

The regulation, which was notified on July 17, requires the load carrying capacities of heavy vehicles, including trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 16 tonnes to 49 tonnes to be increased by 20-25 per cent at par with global

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