Mangaluru: The Commercial Tax checkposts at Kotekar Beeri and Mukka outside the city, which sported 'stop' signs for trucks now have signs saying 'booth closed'. The officals posted there are awaiting re-assignment. "We have no more work here. We are here for the next couple of days, just packing up a few things and getting ready to leave to a place of the next posting", they said.

About 3,000 trucks arriving from Gujarat, Mumbai, Panajiand north Karnataka, would pass through these checkpost at Kotekar Beeri is likely to berazed down for widenung of National Highway-66. However, the checkposts of the Forest and Road Transport departments will continue to function.

As a result of closing down of checkpost, owners of small eateries have started relocating. Selvarajan, a petty shop owner at Mukka, said that he used to sell not less than 2,000 cups of tea and 1,000 food packets every day. But now he has no business as the truckers move on.