GST impact: Truck drivers enjoy the free run

The checkpoint now has barely any truck waiting for clearance

Two weeks into the new tax regime, Business Standard reporters hitchhike on goods-laden trucks plying on important highways from Delhi to gauge the mood of drivers and verify various claims first-hand

Just after midnight at Naya Bazar market, near the New Delhi railway station, labourers were trudging on a wooden plank to load Roop Mohammed’s Chandigarh-bound truck with grocery outside the office of Chamba Manali Transport Corporation. These labourers are paid Rs 10-12 for lifting each 100 kg weight. On a normal night, a group of three men load 50-60 tonnes and the earnings are divided equally.  

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