Revised vehicle fitness test fees: Lorry owners urge State to convey their concerns to Centre

Members of Andhra Pradesh Lorry Owners’ Association (APLOA) urged the authorities to convey to the Centre their interest implicit the revised conveyance fittingness trial fees, which they accidental would compound their fiscal woes.

In a statement, relation wide caput Y. V. Eeswara Rao cited notification BSR 850 (E) connected fittingness interest issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways connected November 11, 2025, and said the State authorities was gearing up to cod the revised fees.

He said though the State authorities had the enactment of making alterations and connection concessions to conveyance owners, it chose to spell up with implementation of the Centre’s notification without making immoderate changes.

Mr. Rao said the Centre’s determination would not lone load the transport sector, but it volition besides severely interaction the States. The State Transport Departments cannot instrumentality these norms abruptly without immoderate preparation. State-level transport operations volition beryllium disrupted, causing superior inconvenience to conveyance owners, drivers, officials of the Road Transport Department, and adjacent to the question of goods, helium said.

The APLOA person said conveyance owners were already struggling with rising diesel prices, toll charges, spare parts costs and uneven taxation structures. Small lorry owners were uncovering it hard to survive. Implementing these norms successful specified a concern would lone worsen their fiscal condition, helium added.

He said it was unfortunate that the authorities did not bash thing to forestall diversion of Andhra’s gross to the neighbouring States of Telangana and Karnataka. Lorry owners had been requesting counter-signature permits for interstate goods transport betwixt Andhra Pradesh and Telangana due to the fact that the existent strategy often required relying connected impermanent permits, which could beryllium a burden, but the authorities had not taken up the contented truthful far, helium said.

Mr. Rao reiterated his plea to the State authorities to pass the concerns of lorry owners to the Centre and instrumentality steps to support the interests of the transport community.