Logistics firm Rivigo is building a long-haul trip with its drivers

Rivigo has about eight thousand truck drivers, whom Rivigo calls pilots, on its contract to run its fleet of almost 5,000 trucks

When Deepak Garg, an ex-McKinsey executive, set out to do the homework before setting up a logistics start-up, he discovered that trucks drivers are branded as the 37th caste (he wasn’t even aware that India had 36 castes). 

“I heard about it (the 37th caste) in Jaipur, and then in Hyderabad, in Vapi and also in Baroda... You may be financially underprivileged and blame your fate. But nobody would want to take up a career that makes him socially outcaste,” said Garg, who quit McKinsey in 2014 after a nine-year stint to become an entrepreneur.

Logistics seemed an interesting space