Ahmedabad to Indore. One extra tonne. One small decision at the dispatch dock. The second truck looks expensive, so the extra cargo goes on the first one. The vehicle reaches a National Highway fee plaza and the calculation changes completely.…
If you run freight through Kerala, you have probably noticed the state moves at its own pace on infrastructure. Sometimes slower than its neighbours, sometimes ahead of everyone by making a call nobody else is willing to make yet. The…
Heavy Truck Transport in India: What Businesses Need to Know Before Booking A machine tool maker in Rajkot books a large vehicle for a consignment that measures fine on paper. The truck arrives, the crew starts loading, and the item…
A truck earns on the days it is loaded. Everything else in a transport business is arithmetic around that one fact, which is why finding loads is not an administrative task. It is the business. There are five channels Indian…
E-Commerce and Trucking in India: What Actually Changed for Full Truckload Ask most people how e-commerce changed Indian trucking and you get an answer about vans delivering parcels to doorsteps. That part is real, and it is also the part…
Logistics Costs in India: Eight Ways to Cut Your Freight Bill Most articles on logistics costs in India explain what the country should do about infrastructure and policy. Useful for a policy conference, useless on a Tuesday when you are…
Strategic Alliances in Logistics: What Works Between Transport Operators A five-truck operator in Ludhiana runs north India well and has nothing south of Nagpur. An operator in Hosur has the opposite problem. Neither can afford to buy vehicles for the…
How GST Transformed Freight Costs and Compliance for Indian Businesses When GST came into force on 1 July 2017, it replaced a tax system that had been fragmenting Indian logistics for decades. State-level VAT, central excise duty, service tax, entry…
MSME Logistics: How Smaller Shippers Get Better Service From Transporters A components maker in Rajkot ships four or five full loads a month. A competitor down the road ships forty. When capacity tightens at quarter end, the transporter places vehicles…
Five Ways Technology Changed Indian Logistics Most articles on technology in Indian logistics list what might happen. This one lists what already did, and the pattern is worth noticing before the list: four of the five arrived because somebody was…
FASTag for Trucks: What It Actually Changed for Freight A consignment leaves Vadodara for Bhiwandi. The rate was agreed on the phone. At delivery, the bill arrives higher, and the difference is toll, billed at actuals with a set of…
AIS 140 GPS: What Indian Fleet Operators Actually Need to Know An operator in Vadodara buys a tracking device for Rs. 3,000 from a shop near Transport Nagar, fits it, and considers the job done. At the fitness renewal, the…
The Supply Chain Management Trends Predicted for 2026, Scored Years Later Every industry publishes a trends list in January. Almost nobody goes back to check. This page originally carried a set of supply chain management trends predicted for 2026. Enough…