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Lax Enforcement Keeps India's Rs 28,000 Crore Shadow Truck Bodybuilding Industry Alive and Lethal
India’s unorganized truck building industry is a sector that poses a real threat to road safety.
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In the parched outskirts of Ajmer, where the Rajasthan sun bleaches the rust of a thousand dead machines, the skeletal remains of India’s past logistics are meticulously disemboweled.
Here, in vast scrapyards that function as the dark matter of the national economy, men with torches and calloused hands pick through piles of salvaged metal to find the marrow of a new trailer: an axle here, a chassis rail there. This is the birth of what industry veterans call 'death machines'; improvisational assemblies of scrap and hope that will soon find themselves hurtling down public highways, carrying tons of weight ...
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