Thakur Tempo Transport Company

We are located right in the middle of the Lalkothi Sabzi Mandi area, specifically near the Kisan Mandi on Tonk Road. If you’ve ever been there, you know how chaotic it gets with all the vegetables and people. Our tempos are constantly moving in and out of those narrow lanes. It’s a loud place to work, but we are used to it. We mainly focus on the smaller loads that the big trucks can't handle in the city traffic. Every morning at four or five, the place is already buzzing. We have a small desk where we keep track of which tempo went where. It gets really hot in the summer, especially with all the engines running nearby. We don't have any big corporate goals; we just want to make sure the produce and goods get to the shops on time. My cousin handles some of the driving and I stay back to manage the phone calls. Sometimes a tempo breaks down and we have to scramble to find another one, which is always a bit of a mess. Tonk Road is always full of cars, so timing everything is the hardest part of the job. We know most of the vendors around the mandi by their first names. It’s a community of people just trying to get through the day's work. We’ve been here since the mandi was much smaller than it is today.