A sleeker, smarter truck

The trucking scene has changed quite some in the last one year. It has used the BSVI transition to its advantage in absorbing new customer-centric technologies to make trucks smarter and sleeker. The article on the Tata Ultra Sleek T. Series seemed to suggest that. Adding to the already wide and modular Ultra range of trucks and buses, the Sleek T. Series signals at a distinct shift in market requirements. It also signals the beginning of a rapid travel towards further evolution cycles including hybrid and electric trucks. CNG trucks are already a well established site in last and first mile segments, typically urban and where the respective fuel availability is good. Offering operators the advantage of better performance, efficiency, comfort and low TCO, trucks like these are making a case for absorbing the next round of technologies as the regulations and market requirements will demand. To wish away regulations will be highly risky, and it would be the same regarding customer requirements. With infra changes and the economic developments, a big churn is the way CVs are utilised could be only a few miles away. Ain’t the new sleeker and smarter trucks signaling the same?

Vivek Bhat, Mumbai