Beware of stones stuck between the tyres in a vehicle ahead of you

I have personally been witness to the gory consequences of a brick or stone flying off like missiles from the wheels of moving trucks/ buses, not once but thrice in my driving tenure of over five decades! 

Beware of stones/ bricks stuck between the rear tyres of a moving heavy vehicle ahead of you. A major disaster can happen any moment. Be High On Cognition. Either maintain reasonably safe distance or overtake at the first opportunity and make it a point to let the driver of the heavy vehicle know about the impending danger. 

If the stone or bricks flies off from between the wheels of the vehicle ahead of you, there's no guarantee that the strong build quality of your vehicle will save you. 

Therefore, instead of concentrating on some dumb navigation maps on the screen of a device in your car or some music that you immensely like, etc, etc, apply your God gifted intelligence and learn to expect the unexpected while driving. 

None in the car should be allowed to peep out of the sunroof nor should it be kept open in a moving car or even a stationary car parked besides a highway. 

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As long as you are the regd owner of a vehicle, you are responsible for all deeds and misdeeds

When you exchange your earlier car at the dealer point while buying a brand new Maruti/ VW/ Toyota/ Hyundai/ Mahindra/ Tata or any other car of your choice, you don't sell to Maruti True Value or whoever. Although the value of your erstwhile car has been adjusted with that of your new car, in legal terms you have simply handed over (not sold) your earlier car to a channel partner of  Maruti, etc. You might even possess a delivery note with date and details of chasis number and engine number of your earlier car. 

However, the sale is NOT over till such time mParivahan continues to show your name as the legal owner of your old car. 

Maruti True Value, VW DasAuto, Toyota Trust, etc are plain and simple no better than the hole in the wall pre-owned car dealers which have opened shops all India. The onus is on you to ensure that the ownership change takes place at the earliest. 

Personally, I will never want to sign on the dotted lines of Forms 29 and 30 unless the name of the buyer is filled in and signed copies of proof of address and identity of the buyer of my earlier car is handed over to me. 

If you feel that I am over reacting or am scaring you unnecessarily, you are wrong. Even after a decade or more you might land yourself in untold worries. Friends, I personally want you to remain safe. 

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Exchanging old automobiles in lieu of a new one needs careful documentation so as not to repent later

Exchanging car/ two-wheeler in lieu of a spanking new or more advanced brand/ model/ variant is not as easy as two friends exchanging chocolates in lieu of yummy tiffin in school. Nor is it as easy as exchanging a 10 years old fridge in lieu of a more technologically advanced brand of fridge at any brown goods outlet. 

Did you 'exchange' your old car in lieu of a brand new one at a car manufacturing company authorised branded pre-owned outlet, viz. True Value, Das Auto, Toyota Trust, etc? 

The sale of your old vehicle is NOT over till such time mParivahan continues to show your name as the legal owner of your old vehicle. 

You will be held responsible for all deeds and misdeeds pertaining to vehicles which figure in your name in mParivahan. 

Caution: Remember the American consulate shootout in Kolkata where a blue Maruti 800 was used? 

Remember the ki*lling of a coal mafia in Shaktigarh by hired shoo*ters? 

In both the cases, the cars used were bought by criminals from pre-owned car dealers. The registered owners were innocent common citizens who were just happy to hand over their pre-worshipped cars to a pre-owned car dealer without caring to ensure if their own name has  been deleted from the records. 

Don't believe in the verbal 'HUM TOH HAI NA' assurances by pre-owned car dealers! 

P.S: We do not have details of a proposed rule where the pre-owned dealer or the buyer will be accountable once the original owner hands over the vehicle after the delivery note is exchanged. 

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Drive within speed limits in Odisha to avoid stiff fines and penalties

The content in the attached screenshot isn't a stray case in Odisha. Motorists who exceed the speed limits on NH16 from near Jaleshwar (WB-OD border) to Girsola (OD-AP border near Brahmapur) and also from Jamshola (JH-OD border) to Saraipalli (near OD-CG border) on erstwhile NH6 are getting one or more SMS for payment of challans, each totalling ₹7000 (₹2000 for exceeding the speed limits + ₹5000 for driving without Driving License) for every offence. 

At times the SMS reach the registered mobile number of the car owner within 15 minutes of the alleged offence. At times SMS don't reach even after 15+ weeks. At times messages are being received after the case has been referred to some court in Odisha. 

The maximum speed limits in OD range from 60 kmph to 80 kmph. 

To avoid hassles, it's best to stick to the speed limits. 

The screenshot dated 2023-08-31 has been curated from a road travel and automobiles forum on Facebook. 

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I, Deep Banerjee (Founder - #IndianRoadie and #AssociatedForumsOfIndianRoadie) am the only one in India who have repeatedly stressed that buying and selling a pre-owned car/ bike is not as easy as buying/ selling a pack of cookies or a samosa or a sachet of shampoo or discarding a used cond*m. I have repeatedly stressed that buying and selling deals should not be done via one of those roadside or branded pre-owned car dealers, including the branded ones authorized by new car manufacturers. 

A blue Maruti Baleno was used to bump off erstwhile coal smuggler Raju Jha near one of the 'lyangcha' selling shops on NH19 in Shaktigarh, East Bardhaman district, West Bengal. After the job was over, the goons drove off and discarded the car somewhere near Shaktigarh Police Station, as per media reports. 

A resident of Baisnabhghata Patuli Township area in the southern fringes of Kolkata who was the first owner of the 2017 make blue Baleno has revealed to the Press that he sold off his 5 yrs old Baleno car to Car Dekho (a pre-owned car buying/ selling chain) in end September 2022 without obviously filling up the complete details in Form 29 and 30. The seller in pink t-shirt in the video thought that he had cracked a great deal and that his App based used car dealer will find a buyer and complete the name transfer process because ₹10,000 was held back. 

Slogging it out to find a direct buyer was too much of labour for him like thousands and thousands of other tech-savvy callous roadies. The car was not yet transferred to a new owner on the date of the crime. However, it was used by the goons to bump off Raju Jha in Shaktigarh. 

With everyone wanting to do everything (including producing babies) using Apps or knowledge gathered from YouTube, WhatsApp, etc this had to happen. 

Where are those guys who in every warning post open up a wrong orifice of their body to say that such incidents don't happen daily. I wish they face such harrowing times atleast once before they breathe their last. I also earnestly want them to face the music for ignoring my warnings pertaining to #NoPlannedNightDriving. 

All the super busy superhero roadies pan-India speak behind my back for all my well meaning warnings because my advice comes for free. 

The original owner of the Baleno (WB06P3454) giving out the Press bite in the accompanying video link is trying to put up a brave face, but somewhere down below, his pants must be dripping wet! 

https://fb.watch/jI9jBq6MUj/ 

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Pre-owned car dealers are crooks of the highest order

For those of you'll who are planning to buy a pre-owned car from a used car dealer, the attached poster is for them.
Never trust them by their glitzy showroom, sugar coated words, and the shining cars on display. There's never a good and honest pre-owned car dealer anywhere in India.
If you don't have the time, patience and intellect to find a direct seller who's the present owner,  abort the idea of owning a pre-owned car of any model.
Ignore the 'Indian Roadie Hacks' at your own peril. 

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Roadies being fined on NH44 in Karnal, Haryana for overspeeding, dark glasses, drunk driving, etc in February 2020

Roadies are fined in Karnal, Haryana on NH44 for overspeeding, films on glasses, drunk driving, non-existence of reflector tapes in trucks, etc.

This was a video by 'India Breaking News' from the location where checking was being carried out by Haryana Police personnel on the highway in end February 2020.
It's being mentioned by the police officer on duty that the official speed limit on that stretch is 100 kmph + 5% grace, which makes it 105 kmph. A car doing 106 kmph is fined ₹2000 on the spot.
Cars with dark films on glasses are fined a whooping ₹10000.
Drunk driving cases are referred to the courts.
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Caution: Not all NH in India has an upper speed limit of 100 kmph. Most states/ locations have limits ranging from 40 - 80 kmph.
There are states, viz. West Bengal which don't object to dark glasses.
HP doesn't even allow any writings in the form of stickers on windshields or the body.
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Attention Ministry of Road Transport and Highways:
MORTH has only given a set of directives to all the states and UTs. However, the implementation and interpretation seems to have been left to the ministers and 'babus' of the respective State governments.
With good road infrastructure, people are not left moving around within a town, district or state. With different set of local rules and impromptu interpretations by uncouth cops in different states, the road users are invariably at the receiving end.

Requesting  Nitin Gadkari to do something about it on a war footing and dole out exemplary punishment to erring police and RTO/ PVD officials.
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Lady in Kannur, Kerala tries to reverse car but moves forward and breaks through a wall

Now I am genuinely scared of the guys owning 'holy' and 'musical' Tata cars, which develop umpteen number of 'holes' and start 'rattling' like mad within 3 - 5 years of purchase.
The owners of Tata cars themselves are supposedly so technology savvy that they have started trying out NCAP tests themselves to prove some stupid points.

And btw, all non-Tata car owners, specifically the owners of supposedly cheap Maruti Suzuki 'tin can' brands are frequently addressed as big time 'idiots' which gives me the impression that the Tata car owners eat 'atta roti' at home using golden spoons. It's as if they have a Hummer (or 'hammer') parked in their parking slot. I am instantly left wondering if they reside in a tony apartment adjoing the hanging garden in Malabar Hills in Mumbai. It's simultaneously amusing to read those 'super-rich' guys asking everyone why their own dream car built on JLR platform made in Pune return a fuel economy of 15.6 kmpl while somebody else gets 16.1 kmpl.

Will somebody explain to the rusty morons who keep rattling nonsense at non-Tata owners that most of their own parents or they themselves had proudly owned new or pre-owned Maruti Suzuki cars or vans between 1985 and 2010. Let them shed their own hypocrisy and admit that their parents or they themselves were bigger idiots, going by their own logic. They should shed their double standards and logically explain why they had acquired Maruti Suzuki or Hyundai themselves and did not stick to HM or PAL?

The glorified 'babus' in today's mass recruiting companies with a couple of trips as couriers to US, Europe should professionally educate themselves about terms like 'market segmentation', 'brand positioning', etc before exposing their hollow self.

If you don't respect your car, any car can kill and/ or maim. Please stop living in a fools paradise. Be realistic. A Tata or a VW and Skoda can also kill/ maim under similar circumstances.

These discussions humiliating Maruti or other car owners are frowned upon in Indian Roadie. People with such attitude are rebuked publicly.

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- Somebody from a 'model' state in India has already been rebuked for irrelevant mentions.
- I got the photo as a WhatsApp message this Sunday, 2020-02-02 morning, more for humour than anything else. The caption read the typical and snooty "Imagine if this was a tin can and not a safe Tata car". I immediately deleted the caption but retained the photo for a model reply.
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Coido Air Compressor for car tyres is extremely useful and a must carry item

A Coido 300 PSI Portable Air Compressor (tyre inflator) bought online is always safely tucked in my car. Ever since I acquired the mini gizmo in March 2015 I feel far more confident and relaxed irrespective of whether I am on the road for a long or short trip. 

It's one of the must have accessories/ gadgets for every motorist. 

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Exchanging or selling old car is not like selling or exchanging old newspaper

Have you ever handed over (tantamounting to sale) your old car or bike to a new car/ bike dealer for exchange and bought a new ride?

Were you paid the value of the old car/ bike in cheque/ draft or was the amount deducted from the invoice value of the new vehicle as exchange bonus or value?

Have you preserved copies of those cheques/ drafts, bank statements, Form 29 and 30, delivery note, a copy of the money receipt with all details, copies of proof of address, proof of identity, PAN card, etc, etc?

Does the invoice of the new car bought by you mention the discount you got for exchanging your old car with mention of registration number + engine number + chasis number of the earlier vehicle?

If your answer to the question in the proceeding paragraph is NO, you are possibly staring at a lot of heartburns!
If yes, then you have a 'somewhat' logical & favorable case in your hand.

What if after 3 or 5 or 8 or even 12 years you realize that your old vehicle is still running around in some unknown location in India and the vahan records say that the vehicle is still in your name?

According to a Supreme Court ruling, you will be fully responsible for all acts and omissions.

Don't even contemplate filing a false FIR that your old vehicle was stolen. You will be as good as a dead duck then.
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Offer or accept lift sensibly while on the road

 

Use your cognitive powers sensibly before giving someone a lift. 

While on the road, being a good samaritan may not be a good idea always. 

You may not get a second chance to learn from your mistakes and rectify yourself.  

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Feeling sleepy? Stop and rest before it's too late

If you feel sleepy while driving/ riding, move a safe distance away from the carriageway and take a power nap for 20 - 30 mins.
Your eyes might shut without an inkling.
Whatever other solutions one might suggest, nothing works better than a power nap.
Ignore at your own risk. Don't repent later. You may not have a second chance.
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Indian Roadie Safety Tips when driving in Nepal and Bhutan

Please be careful while driving in Bhutan and Nepal. In reality, no insurance works there. You have to settle cases in courts which is a lengthy process. In case of any untoward incident, try to settle on the spot & dont try to runaway.
REMEMBER - YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE BORDER & THEY WILL TRACK YOU BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW EXIT POINTS.
Don't argue with them. The locals in Bhutan and Nepal don't understand any logic.

'Indian Roadie Safety Tips' by IndianRoadie Somdeb Chanda who is a Rally veteran and has been driving to Bhutan once or twice every year for the past couple of years!

'No planned night driving' neither for fame nor for brickbats

A quintessential fetish of some roadies for 'planned' driving in the night might earn those same people lots of kudos from friends on Facebook and other Social Media platforms if everything goes fine.

However, their dear ones will earn a lot of brickbats if something goes terribly wrong in their 'josh' of demonstrating their driving/ riding prowess.


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Indian Roadie Safety Tips for two-wheeler riding

Indian Roadie Safety Tips for two-wheeler riding.

1. Just because your bike can go 100 mph between two stoplights doesn't mean you should do it.

2. Slow down a little. That S curve is sharper than you think!

3. Maintenance is that un-fun thing you do to keep from walking home!

4. When in doubt, always take a jacket & gloves. When not in doubt, still take the jacket.

5. It always seems farther back home than it was to your destination. Don't ride so far that it stops being fun!

6. WAVE!! Even if the rider is on a scooter or a different brand. They just might be saving for their "Dream" motorcycle.

7. Stop for gas even if you don't need it. You may wish you had later.

8. Don't ride beyond your skill level trying to keep up with the rider in front of you.

9. Ride safe! No one wants to attend your funeral and talk about how much you loved bikes. They want to go riding with you and talk about what a great time you had.

10. Chrome wont get you laid, unless you're already good looking.

11. Keep your passenger feeling safe. They're riding with you because they trust you. Don't scare them & ruin motorcycling for them.

12. Buy quality rain gear. Being wet when it's warm is tolerable. Being wet when it's cold is miserable.

13. The larger the group, the longer it takes to get there.

14. Riding 500 miles a day on the interstate is doable. Riding 500 miles a day in the mountains is impossible. Allow yourself time to "see the sights".

15. The "ride" is about the journey, not the destination.
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Note: Received as a random forward on WhatsApp with lots of errors. Edited before reposting.