Challenges faced by Indian transporters

Transport is the backbone and lifeline of our economy. In India, perhaps transport is the biggest business but at the same time it is the most unprofessional & unorganized business also. Challenges are never ending situation for transport industry.

The biggest challenge faced by the transporters is that young generation of existing transport employees and owners does not want to join their parent’s industry. The young generation wants to do something different rather than following their parent’s business. Even existing truck drivers are also leaving this industry and slowly moving to bus driving or local driving because of stable income, safety & comfort.

The lorry/truck drivers have also suffered from another crucial issue regarding highway robberies. The material is not safe on highway. In some cases, robbers even snatched the lorry from drivers and their locations are not identified till date. Recently five Lorries were hijacked on Maharashtra route and nobody knows what happened to the Lorries and their drivers.

Another big issue is that there is lack of awareness among transporters and truckers. There are so many significant areas where the transporter and truckers should be educated. Many transporters even don’t know how to calculate operating cost. They are still following traditional theory of working at an operating cost a bit lower than their nearby competitor. This all leads to reduction in profits of transporters and huge loss to the truckers as they do not acquire the freight rate equals to actual cost they spent. The recent enormous hike in diesel price has created a big problem for the transporters as well as truck owners in the country. The truck/lorry operators find it difficult to manage with the abnormal hike in the fuel prices.

Major challenge for any transport organization is infrastructure. Roads are not in good condition due to which it creates hindrance in transportation of goods. Lack of service providing shops along side roads like repairing shop, dhabas, rest places etc due to which truck drivers has to face lots of problems. Even at least one big godown is required at all major cities for centralized delivery & pick-up of material and one small outlet (own or franchisee) at each business potential area of that city for better administrative control & customer relations. But it is not easy to buy a land when the price and rent of land is sky touching.

Today, from all these above reason, transport business becomes the biggest challenge in India. Government must take proper steps to create awareness and to educate transporters and truckers. Infrastructure should be developed so that transportation of goods becomes easy. Growth opportunities in transport business must be increased so that young generation also wants to join this industry. Trucksuvidha.com

Challenges faced by transporters

Challenges faced by transporters

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8 Responses

  1. Deepak jha says:

    Absolutely right , many issue in highway, very bad road conditions , till time drivers shortage in trucking industry

  2. Neha Joshi says:

    Yeah, true. It is indeed important to seek estimated operating costs here as well as assessing the road conditions where the wear and tear would be more and traffic conditions may exploit fuel charges even further. I was communicating with one of my member on IndiaBizClub.com . So when I was communicating with fellow members. I understood the concern

  3. Neha Joshi says:

    Oh that was pitty to know truckers face problems lacking assistance services like repairs, food etc.
    I was communicating with one of the dealer on IndiaBizClub.com . And heard the same

  4. Dinesh dhiman says:

    Ur statement is true I m also driver
    and owner of truck the main reason behind it”we all know every family or parents have own ambition my child became a doctor,pilot,teacher etc.butnot want driver” driver bring apple to Kashmir and Himachal in his truck, mausami to Andhra etc in our life in every field all work done by truck. All says in India farmers is the backbone so what is driver? Driver is the legs or feet without its we cannot move.all knew it but no body give respect truck driver why this time I m write message this phone company made phone but driver brought it company to market. The main problem truck driver daily faces all days Kashmir to kaniyakumari India is one but no.every state,every teh,every district police R.T.O M.B.I. T.I. Want money as a entry mean truck going own area so what should we do. For truck drivers no any facilities provide by government indian driver life so cretical.

    • amit says:

      Dear Dinesh sir ,
      indian truckers called by the name “USTAAD ” . the respectable name . we also work to uplift drivers life . so trucksuvidha team starts sarthisuvidha to aware drivers about rules and information about trucking . thanks for share your thoughts .

  5. BIJENDER MISHRA says:

    Hi, I want to start trucking business with two trucks…someone can help ? I am based in Mumbai

  6. Alok Chaudhary says:

    Hi, Mr. Dhiman Here we going to find out the solution for the problems facing by drivers and transporter as well by the help of technology.
    So I need your number and address to get more about this to make a revolution in this sector
    Hopefully you make some help.

    My contact number
    9667746325