A number of truckers across the country have taken industrial action over the past week.
Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi had a five-hour long meeting with the representatives of truck and bus drivers on Saturday.
“I believe in the right to protest; the protest by truck drivers was their natural and legal right and definitely not an unsettling experience,” he said.
The truckers partially blocked roadways by parking their rigs along main roads, asking their fellow truck drivers to join the protest by pulling their heavy vehicles to the side of the road and unloading their cargo.
"They have a whole slew of unsolved problems piled up over the past years that would definitely not go away overnight, Tin News quoted Ahmad Karimi, the secretary of Truckers Guild Association, as saying.
May 27, 2018 19:36
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