Highly recommended to check this out, truck art on a Cessna aircraft from Lahore, Pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1599063
Edit: for more context and history around Pakistani truck art: https://www.dawn.com/news/1278386
Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)
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#52There's a nice book Truck De India: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50840378-truck-de-ind... which describes the lives of truckers in India but much of it holds true for it's neighbouring countries too.
And there's a nice Podcast with the author of this book, even he mentions about how expansive the art of painting and decorating the trucks is in Pakistan: https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/9/27/episode-192-the-lon...
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#53I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.
I grew up in Karachi, and this "absence of women" is an alien concept to me. It is common for competing stores selling nearly the same product to be next to each other, organically forming a whole street market with hundreds of stores specializing in products of one theme. There's an electronics parts market, an LED bulbs market, a used books market, a glass market, a kitchen-ware market, a used clothing market, the pirated software media market. This makes the markets loosely gender-segregated - auto parts markets don't attract as many Pakistani women as the dresses markets do.
Search on YouTube for "crazy sale Pakistani women". :)
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#54Pakistan is also world leader in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery
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#55An American trucker recently told me trucking is 90% about looking cool.
Apparently in the US and Canada, brands are heavily segmented for cultural reasons. Large fleets buy modern, streamlined trucks from Volvo and Freightliner (Mercedes) to save on fuel, while self-employed truckers buy Peterbilt and Kenworth that look like they haven't changed since the 70s.
Though the latter have the added benefit of fewer breakdowns, due to older designs having beefier parts, but also weigh more and burn more diesel.
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#56I watched Mark Weins when he was in Pakistan. Interestingly, during multiple half an hour videos, filmed on obviously very busy streets, there was absolutely no female in sight. Such a disgusting country.
Different marketplaces have different gender distributions. The electronics market will usually be majority male. The cloth/clothing market will be majority female.
Also, your comment branding an entire country as disgusting reveals more about your character than it does about Pakistan.
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#57Here is another article about the painted trucks. https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to... I was trying to find out why people started building wooden crowns on top of the Bedford trucks in the first place, but no luck... Did the crowns come first, and then get painted, or did the art come first, and then people added the crowns in order to create more surface area for the art?
I would suspect the crowns were originally to hold more of a load - especially if it is something bulky but relatively light.
True. I know they can bear enough weight for a couple of adults, at least.
I remember my father telling the story of how he drove one of these trucks across the country in his early twenties, hauling sugarcane. He would sleep on the crown at night.
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#58An American trucker recently told me trucking is 90% about looking cool. Apparently in the US and Canada, brands are heavily segmented for cultural reasons. Large fleets buy modern, streamlined trucks from Volvo and Freightliner (Mercedes) to save on fuel, while self-employed truckers buy Peterbilt and Kenworth that look like they haven't changed since the 70s. Though the latter have the added benefit of fewer breakd…
There is a shaggy dog story in which the setup is that a child asks a cowboy why he wears various items, and he patiently explains the hat is for the sun, the bandanna for the dust, etc. etc., and the punchline is along the lines of "but mister, why are you wearing gym shoes?" "I wouldn't want to be mistaken for a trucker, now would I?"
(I've visited a long-haul trucker convention near Interlaken once or twice. With eyes open, it looks like [a european's idea of] the US due everyone dressing in "country". With eyes closed, one hears schlager and smells currywurst, and the true location becomes obvious.)
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#59An American trucker recently told me trucking is 90% about looking cool. Apparently in the US and Canada, brands are heavily segmented for cultural reasons. Large fleets buy modern, streamlined trucks from Volvo and Freightliner (Mercedes) to save on fuel, while self-employed truckers buy Peterbilt and Kenworth that look like they haven't changed since the 70s. Though the latter have the added benefit of fewer breakd…
Apparently other long objects need to be used for compensational purposes, I see.
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#60Here is another article about the painted trucks. https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to... I was trying to find out why people started building wooden crowns on top of the Bedford trucks in the first place, but no luck... Did the crowns come first, and then get painted, or did the art come first, and then people added the crowns in order to create more surface area for the art?
It might be worthwhile seeing what was in use before trucks; to me it looks like the crowns might be making the trucks resemble prior animal-drawn wagons...