Truck Drivers In India. After Agriculture the Sector which has generated maximum employment in India is the Transport Sector. Truck drivers play major role in our transportation system.
The truck drivers drive miles and miles in all the weathers to ensure that the goods consigned reach us in specified time.
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Truck drivers have more pressure meeting their target and are responsible to deliver the cargo on time. They travel long distances within hours. For instance, Imran, a driver from Delhi, travels from Delhi to Kolkata in almost seven days. He does 2 to 3 trips in a month. He says, “It’s not an easy job to be a driver, as I am always on the road to earn my bread, I get very less time to spend with my family.”
Truck drivers have more pressure meeting their target and are responsible to deliver the cargo on time. They travel long distances within hours. For instance, Imran, a driver from Delhi, travels from Delhi to Kolkata in almost seven days. He does 2 to 3 trips in a month. He says, “It’s not an easy job to be a driver, as I am always on the road to earn my bread, I get very less time to spend with my family.”
Drivers need to cover longer distances and have a target. To achieve this, within the given time limit, they drive miles without taking a break and proper sleep. Drivers are also forced to work for more than 15 hours a day, which is more than the mandatory working hours. This affects their health and is one of the main reasons for accidents to take place on highways.
Indian road transport contributes almost 90 percent of the country’s passenger traffic and 65 percent of its freight. India has a network of over 90,000 kms of National Highways but at many places it is not well maintained. During the year 2015, overloaded vehicles caused 77,116 accidents and 25,199 road accidental deaths involving trucks. It constituted a share of 15.4 per cent and 17.2 per cent respectively in total road accidents and fatalities in the country.
