Truck Operations & Road Accidents
Mohd. Ata Hasan
Advocate || LL.M. (Business and Corporate Law), Symbiosis Law School, '22 || B.B.A.+LL.B. (Hons.) specialisation in IPR, Galgotias University, '20
The production of goods in a particular place is consumed in many places. The production of goods need to take in various places for consumptions, which are scattered throughout the country or throughout the world. Trucking operation is to provide the place utility of goods. It creates place utility by bridging the gap between the production and consumption centers. The development of trucking operations is to access many brands of goods and it indirectly influences the lifestyle of the consumers. Truck operation provides employment opportunity to individuals as drivers, conductors, mechanic, etc., who are directly engaged in transport business. It also provides employment to people indirectly in the industries producing various means of transport and other transport equipment. However, the trucking operations face many problems due to lack of high level investment, bad road condition, availability of load, problem traffic, accident, etc. affect the trucking business. In this connection an attempt is made to study the problems of trucking operations.
For the enormous advancement in urbanization and industrialization, and shifting from slow to fast and from fast to faster means of travelling, humans have to pay hefty price in shape of the body limbs or even sometimes at the cost of life itself. In simple words it means that there has been speeding up in vehicle traffic which associatively has brought uprising statistical data of road-collisions resulting into setbacks of human lives. Regardless of correctional arrangements and convictions, traffic rules and security guidelines, keep on discoloring the picture of traffic police and overwhelming vehicles, not even as slightest decline has been noticed in the road accidents. Therefore it will not be wrong to state that with this scenario one cannot hope for better promising future in this regard.?
Unfortunately the Indian roads were the witness of 4,67,044 road mishaps in 2018, which resulted in deaths of 1.5 lakh individuals, statistics revealed by the Road Transport and Highways Ministry. India is on the top position among total 199 nations in number of road accident deaths as recorded by World Road Statistics, 2018 followed by China and US. According to the WHO Global Report on Road Safety 2018, India was accounted for 11% approximately of the total accidents all over the globe.
Indian Government has been found tackling with this scenario of increasing accidents and by enacting various statues in this regard to ensure the safety on roads.?For this various steps have been taken both at State level as well as Central level. Polices and schemes have been introduced in this regard. The list of various statutes enacted from time to time is as follows:
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Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires concerted efforts for effective and sustainable prevention. Of all the systems with which people have to deal every day, road traffic systems are the most complex and the most dangerous. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured. Projections indicate that these figures will increase by about 65% over the next 20 years unless there is new commitment to prevention. Nevertheless, the tragedy behind these figures attracts less mass media attention than other, less frequent types of tragedy.
?In a country like India, truck drivers are the backbone of the economy. They transport essential goods and materials across the length and breadth of the country, keeping the wheels of industry moving. However, they often face difficulties on the road, ranging from breakdowns and accidents to legal issues.
In India, the truck drivers are not given the legal status and are not empowered like in the developed countries. This is because, in India, the trucking industry is not well developed and the truck drivers are not considered as professionals.
Most people are not aware that there are organizations that can provide legal assistance to truck drivers/transporter who have been stopped or ticketed by the government authority. LOTS24x7 (On Road Legal Assistance) is the company staffed by lawyers who are familiar with the traffic laws in your state and can provide you with advice and representation if you need it. In addition to legal services, On Road Legal Assistance also offers a number of other benefits to its members. LOTS24x7 (On Road Legal Assistance) is a great option for drivers who want the peace of mind that comes with knowing they have legal assistance available to them should they ever need it.