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DELAYS * India - Trucks spend 60% time idling at checkpoints
A three-day trip from Delhi to Chennai now takes an average 10 days with stops at as many as 73 pointsMumbai,India -LiveMint/The Wall Street Journal (NY,USA), by .R. Sanjai -8 Oct 2007: -- Despite a seemingly improving network of roads, around 60% of the time it takes a cargo truck to travel between key Indian cities is still spent idling at multiple checkpoints... Roads carry about 61% of the cargo and 85% of passenger traffic in the country and have long been seen as a major bottleneck in India’s rapid development... Take an example of a cargo-laden truck running from Delhi to Chennai, covering 2,310km across seven states. Drivers of major transport and logistics companies say the trip can be completed in 2.7 days but, instead, now takes, on average, 10 days, mostly on account of about 73 checkpoints throughout the route. And some of them can take 8-10 hours to clear... The checkpoints include stops related to forest, regional transport offices, entry tax, toll taxes, sales tax, octroi and value-added tax, or VAT... (Picture from fetchfun.com/Trip/Malabar.asp -Indian truck on country roads')
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