The Trucks-on-Train service, launched on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor on September 18, 2023, has emerged as a unique initiative for business growth, road decongestion, and pollution control, the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Limited (DFCCIL) said on Tuesday. The service completed its one year on September 18, and the experiment has shown that this new transportation model has a huge growth scope. It can be a win-win situation for both companies and freight operations.
In the Trucks-on-Train (TOT) service, 30 trucks are loaded onto a freight train daily at Palanpur in Gujarat and transported to Rewari in Haryana through the corridor covering a distance of 630 km in around 12 hours.
After unloading them at Rewari, they are driven to their destinations by road. Once the products are delivered, the empty trucks are loaded back onto the train and sent to the originating point.
According to DFCCIL officials, earlier while the same tankers used to reach Prithala in 30 hours from Banas dairy, the freight corridor has reduced the travelling time by 20 hours ensuring the quality of milk is as good as it is at the time of loading.
