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Claiming that backstage sweetener mills successful Erode territory were forcing the lorry drivers to overload sugarcane in their vehicles beyond the permitted limit, members of the Tamil Nadu Sugarcane Lorry Owners’ Federation submitted a petition to the territory medication present connected Monday (January 12, 2026).
Led by coordinators S. Yuvaraj, K. Moorthy, P. Ramasamy, P.C. Mani and C. Senthil, the lorry owners said sweetener mills were compelling them to transportation loads of 20 tonne, which is acold successful excess of the prescribed 12-tonne bounds for a six-wheeler lorry. If they refuse, transport enactment would beryllium denied. This practice, they alleged, had resulted successful predominant penalties nether the Motor Vehicles Act imposed by the constabulary and Transport authorities, causing terrible fiscal hardship to conveyance owners and drivers. Overloading, they said, had besides led to predominant breakdowns, tyre harm and an accrued hazard of roadworthy accidents.
They further claimed that transport charges were being fixed unilaterally by sweetener mills without consultation. While the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation Limited had fixed the minimum proscription complaint astatine ₹598 per tonne, sugarcane lorry owners were paid lone ₹101 per tonne. They demanded that the complaint beryllium revised to ₹201 per tonne and said they were consenting to run strictly successful accordance with norms from February 1, 2026, if the charges were revised.
They besides alleged that non-commercial tractors were being utilized for transporting sugarcane, adversely affecting their operations. Urging the territory medication to intervene, the relation sought strict enforcement of load limits, fixation of just transport charges and timely outgo of dues. They warned that nonaccomplishment to code the issues would unit lorry owners to edifice to protests and halt sugarcane transportation.
