Hill start Assist (HSA) by Tata Motors for safer construction and mining operations.With the economy on the rise, India is undergoing a rapid transformation. Infrastructure, Construction, Mining and Irrigation sectors are witnessing renewed vigour with continuous on-site operations.  With exceeding focus on productivity, increasing fuel costs and competitive freight rates, these industries are looking for unique product solutions, which ensure higher uptime, high productivity and lower cost of ownership.The industry faces numerous challenges in today’s operations. Availability of skilled drivers is increasingly becoming a challenge. Dense traffic conditions resulting in vehicles stopping on uphill slopes, often causing vehicles to roll back resulting in accidents. The usual tendency of harsh acceleration and partial clutch engagement to negate the rollback leads to clutch damage / wear and tear, excessive tyre wear and lower fuel economy. These results in high repair and maintenance costs, besides loss of productivity due to rollback. Tata Motors Construck range has always been at the forefront in anticipating the market needs and fulfilling these requirements with innovative products and features and Construck Tippers have always been the preferred workhorses in these applications. Owing to their superior performance, low operating and maintenance costs, these versatile tippers are preferred in the movement of construction aggregate, soil, coal, ore, mining overburden, stones, and boulders and are also used in many of other on-road and off-road applications.  The Construck tippers are technologically advanced to fulfil not only the performance requirements of these applications but also to meet the growth potential of businesses. Various class leading features in these tippers ensure enhanced driveability, comfort and at the same time ensure lower costs with enhanced safety.The Hill Start Assist (HSA), a best-in-class feature in tippers, ensures superior uphill driveability in both on-road and off-road applications. In case of the tipper stopping on a slope, this intelligent feature momentarily holds the tipper in its place once the brake pedal is released, thereby, allowing the driver to safely navigate the incline by gradually pressing the accelerator. This ensures enhanced uphill driveability and safe tipper operations. HSA, actuated with a switch on the dashboard, has been designed for safety and minimising wear and tear and thus the maintenance costs. HSA provides ease and hassle-free driving while ensuring enhanced clutch and tyre life. By preventing rollback, not only ensures safety of the driver but also ensures higher tipper uptime and curbs damage repair costs. Thus, in a nutshell, HSA ensures enhanced safety and driveability, safer on-road and off-road operations, lower total cost of ownership, higher productivity and also complete peace of mind to the customers!(Communication by the management of the company)