The strike that started in the early hours of today was called by the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), which claims the support of all state transporters' association with a combined fleet size of 48,00,000 trucks.
Talks this morning between the apex body of transporters and the Union Highways, Road Transport Minister T R Baalu to thrash out a solution collapsed.
"We will continue with the indefinite strike," AIMTC President Charan Singh Lohara told reporters after the meeting.
Yesterday, he had said that truckers want the advalorem duty on diesel to be replaced with a fixed rate of duty on per litre of the fuel.
AIMTC has alleged that the government is encashing the international crisis on crude oil prices many-fold and forcing the truckers to buy premium diesel at higher and unregulated prices.
