HRTC reduces freight charges on commercial items

Himachal Road Transport Corporation (HRTC) has reduced the freight charges on carrying commercial items in its buses. In an amendment to its existing freight charges, HRTC has reduced the freight rates for bags/luggage/boxes containing commercial items like automobile spare parts, electronic items, electric items, dry fruits, new utensils, cosmetic items, hosiery items, medicines and medical equipment in the 0-40 kg weight category.

Until now, the bags/luggage/boxes filled with the above mentioned items, up to 40 kg, used to attract freight charges half the fare of the accompanying passenger and full fare of a passenger in case these items were transported without a passenger.

Following the amendment, the 0-40 kg segment with an accompanying passenger has been split into parts -- 0-5 kg and 6-40 kg. While the fare has been reduced to one/fourth of the passenger fare for goods weighing between 0-5 kg segment, one will have to shell out half of the passenger fare for goods weighing 6-40kg.

In the without-passenger category, the 0-40kg segment has been split into three parts – 0-5kg, 6-20kg and 21-40kg. The amended fare for these segments are a quarter of the passenger fare, half of one passenger fare, and one passenger fare, respectively.

According to HRTC Managing Director Rohan Chand Thakur, no fare is charged for personal and household goods weighing up to 30 kg per passenger or two bags/luggage/boxes of any size. “There has been no change in this and it continues as before,” he said.