{"id":309133,"date":"2020-01-07T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309133"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:58:55","slug":"higher-diesel-prices-push-up-truck-rentals-in-first-week-of-january-iftrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/higher-diesel-prices-push-up-truck-rentals-in-first-week-of-january-iftrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher diesel prices push up truck rentals in first week of January: IFTRT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truck rentals on trunk routes \u2013 which are the main routes on which cargo moves across the country \u2013 increased by three-four per cent during January 1 to January 6, against the prevailing rates in December 2019, a freight rate tracking body has said. Freight rates in December were 2-2.5 per cent lower than those in November 2019.<\/p>\n<p>If fuel prices keep rising due to the US-Iran conflict and if the rupee depreciates further, then the economy could be in for a fix, said the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT), a body that tracks truck prices.<\/p>\n<p>December 2019 witnessed a Rs 2.16 a litre (ex-Delhi) increase in diesel prices, while full truck load rentals declined further by 2-2.5 per cent on trunk routes due to the general economic slowdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truck rentals on trunk routes \u2013 which are the main routes on which cargo moves across the country \u2013 increased by three-four per cent during January 1 to January 6, against the prevailing rates in December 2019, a freight rate tracking body has said. Freight rates in December were 2-2.5 per cent lower than those in November 2019. If fuel prices keep rising due to the US-Iran conflict and if the rupee depreciates further, then the economy could be in for a fix, said the Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT), a body that tracks truck prices. December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}