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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.

05 Jun 2026 | 6656 Views | By Shahkar Abidi

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 ...

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