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The State Lorry Owners Association-Tamil Nadu (SLOFT) has announced indefinite lorry onslaught successful 5 districts of the delta region from Monday (February 16). The federation has besides said that it volition denote plans for State-wide indefinite onslaught connected Tuesday.
The lorry owners planned a onslaught successful December past twelvemonth against the Union Ministry of Road Transport guidelines issued successful November 2025 regarding the summation successful fees for fittingness certificates for each vehicles ranging from two-wheelers to dense vehicles nether the Central Motor Vehicles Act, 1989.
According to the guidelines implemented from December 2025, ₹1,000 is fixed for vehicles that are 10-13 years old, ₹5,000 for vehicles betwixt 13 and 15 years old, and ₹25,000 for vehicles implicit 15 and 20 years old. The onslaught was postponed pursuing an assurance that the fees would beryllium reduced.
SLOFT president C. Dhanaraj said that 1 lakh lorries person stopped cognition for the past 3 months, expecting the charges to beryllium reduced. Petitions were submitted to the ministry and the officials acrophobic to trim the fee. The Kerala authorities reduced the interest hike by 40%. But, successful Tamil Nadu, determination was nary due reply from the State government, helium said.
Stating that 2.5 lakh lorries were affected by this hike retired of the full 6.50 lakh lorries successful Tamil Nadu, Mr. Dhanaraj said the vehicles that crossed 15 years and 20 years are moving successful goodsheds and successful Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation godowns. These lorries are valued astatine little than ₹3 lakh. But it has to walk astir ₹28,000 each twelvemonth for a fittingness certificate. So lorries successful Tiruchi, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, and Mayiladuthurai districts volition not beryllium operated from Monday. On Tuesday, the SLOFT enforcement committee volition conscionable successful Namakkal and the day of the State-wide indefinite onslaught volition beryllium announced.
“We besides approached mini motortruck associations to springiness their enactment for the strike, arsenic determination are astir 20 lakh mini trucks successful Tamil Nadu. The State authorities should see our demands, arsenic we person been waiting for much than 3 months for a reply from the government,” Mr. Dhanaraj added.
