Truckers hail ‘1st come, 1st serve’ rule for coal transport

Truck owners have acknowledged with appreciation the initiative of the Angul district administration to put coal transportation from the Mahanadi Coalfields Limited’s (MCL) Talcher coalfields on “first come, first serve” basis.

The new system has been put into practice from this year with the help of the district administration to help truck owners, particularly local educated youths, in business to work without hindrances and manipulations of transport unions.

With “first come, first serve”, all Talcher coalfields have “disseminated a ray of hope among in-numerable defenceless and voiceless truck operators of Talcher as hassle-free loading and genuine freight will act as a sheet-anchor for their survival and sustenance,” read an e-mail received by the MCL CMD.