{"id":363713,"date":"2020-07-20T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363713"},"modified":"2020-07-20T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T06:27:10","slug":"daily-fuel-price-hike-may-push-up-freight-charges-by-20-say-truckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/daily-fuel-price-hike-may-push-up-freight-charges-by-20-say-truckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily fuel price hike may push up freight charges by 20%, say truckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demanding monthly or quarterly revision in diesel prices, which saw an increase for 23 days on the trot last month, a truckers body on Sunday warned that transporters may be forced to increase freight charges by 20% as the daily hikes in fuel prices are making operations &#8220;unviable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel charges account for as much as 65% of the operating cost of a truck. Toll charges are another major component, which is about 20% of the operating cost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Already the demand is low and the idling of the vehicles (trucks which are off-road) is at about 55%. It has become difficult to sustain operations. The road transport sector is devastated due to back-to-back lockdowns amid COVID-19,&#8221; Bal Malkit Singh, chairman core committee and former president of All India Motors Transport Congress (AIMTC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demanding monthly or quarterly revision in diesel prices, which saw an increase for 23 days on the trot last month, a truckers body on Sunday warned that transporters may be forced to increase freight charges by 20% as the daily hikes in fuel prices are making operations &#8220;unviable&#8221;. Fuel charges account for as much as 65% of the operating cost of a truck. Toll charges are another major component, which is about 20% of the operating cost. &#8220;Already the demand is low and the idling of the vehicles (trucks which are off-road) is at about 55%. It has become difficult [&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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363713","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=363713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}