No Drivers, Workers: 3 Lakh Trucks With Goods Worth 35,000 Crores Stuck | Read
Nearly three lakh trucks with payload worth Rs 35,000 crore have been stranded because of the coronavirus lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month, the trade bodies have said. Many of these trucks are parked unattended as their drivers and cleaners have left for their hometowns. Some that reached their destinations are stuck as the workers who unload the trucks are missing. The wheels that drive the economy forward have come to a grinding halt.
