Third-world over loaded pickup truck
1st March 2012, Page 34
1st March 2012
Page 34
Page 34, 1st March 2012
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Although this dilapidated and seriously overloaded pickup is in Mali, it could easily have been a Thai Ford Ranger with a couple of adult elephants in the back, a Dodge Ram in Haiti loaded to the hilt with water melons, a Somali Toyota Hilux weighed down with pirates and their loot, or a Peugeot 404 full of garlic and onions in rural France. Quite simply this tongue-in-cheek choice is a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of pickup trucks that are used to carry ridiculously big loads in third-world countries every day! OK, so it isn’t heavy haulage as we know it, and it certainly wouldn’t be legal (or advisable) over here, but these are the trucks that keep entire economies on the move.
Will Shiers (editor, Commercial Motor)