According to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, automakers will soon be required to install air conditioners inside the driver cabins of trucks.
“Before coming to this event today, I have signed the file that mandates air conditioning in truck driver compartments. We must ensure that people who drive the trucks are well taken of,” Minister Nitin Gadkari, Union Road Transport and Highways said at an auto industry event.
“Our drivers operate vehicles in harsh temperatures of 43…47 degrees and we must imagine the condition of drivers. I was keen to introduce the AC cabin after I became a minister. But some people opposed it saying the cost of trucks will go up. Today, I have signed the file that all truck cabins will be AC cabins,” While addressing ‘Desh Chaalak’ a event recognising those who move India’ organised by Mahindra Logisticshe he said.
Gadkari also mentioned that due to a lack of drivers, truckers in India work between 14 and 16 hours every day.
There are limitations on how many hours a trucker can work in other nations, he noted.
The minister omitted to state the date by which those vehicles with AC cabins will be made available. According to certain reports, the implementation will begin around 2025.
In his speech, the Union Minister also discussed the need to lower logistics costs in India in order to increase export competitiveness, stressing that adequate roads and trucks are essential for this.
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