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Vijayawada: Nearly 40,000 trucks kept off the roads in Vijayawada, in response to the indefinite strike call by lorry owners’ associations across the country from Friday. The truck owners are demanding a review in the toll charges, and a cut in the third party insurance premium tariffs. Given this situation, we have no other option but to go on an indefinite strike,” he said. “We cannot run vehicles by incurring losses. They are also pressing the Centre for issuing national permits to buses, and scrapping the TDS exemption under income tax Section 44 AE.AP Lorry Owners Association general secretary, YV Eswar Rao, said that truck owners have to spend 65% of their revenues only on diesel, and another 15% to pay toll tax..