Channeling the Logistics and Transport updates

                                                    Road freight is carried to destinations via trailers, trucks for days covering northern and southern parts of the country and picking up load from various consignors.In the transport industry, we often carry out Research & Development into the operations that minimizes the lead time, warehouse operations and their optimizations. No information about the types of the trucks is known to most of us. The crude language and terms used by the transporters and the truck drivers like 1.'Hauda' meaning the base from which the height of the truck is measured, 2."Bhatta" which is the daily variable expense of the driver 3."Tapaal" which is a term for Manifest 4."Baitha maal", "Fugaar maal" which could be called as weighty goods and volumetric goods are a part of logistics and transportation sector but ...

                                    In India, the emotional connect to a truck is as deep as the one people have with their pets and farm fields for a primary reason that it is the biggest asset and the bread-earner for the truck drivers. I have always wondered why we Indians like to include religious and cultural traits even in lifeless machines or objects.                         At Dasshera, we worship all the lifeless things and thank God for the progress that it gives, we decorate cows in the native and worship her, women worship trees and pray for a longer life to their husbands. Maybe it is a way to gather faith and strength to tackle hardships just as the truck drivers need courage to live a tenuous life.The trucks making a long journey through the dusty highways of the country are decorated and adorned with a...

        The transport industry, as dynamic and fragmented as it is, carries immense risk. The sector is responsible for making ends meet by transporting goods, from multiple consignors to consignees.Cutting the time and cost becomes so crucial that we end up comprising on the processes and ignore simple yet necessary standards which can be fatal. In carrying the road freight, the trucks/trailers, the drivers and the loading/unloading being the most important elements of the operations; happen to present opportunities for fatal accidents. Safety and precautionary measures need to be incorporated to avoid fatalities as minor ignorance can lead to not just expenses but loss of valuable lives. The key issues that need to be minimized and measures to avoid accidents are: 1. Manual handling of the freight        Despite the access to automation, transporters use many workers for loading and unloading of the goods. There are multiple consi...