Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Trucks

Pretty much every truck here is hand painted and some are decorated with flags or tinsel, which i think is amazing. I'm snapping pictures whenever i get chance.
Common themes are horn blowing (a courtesy here) and cows/calves.


4 comments:

Andrew Penchuk said...

Few questions...

1. What's "Use Dipper at Night"?
2. What's up with the swastika and the Indian Aryan Nation in the last picture?
3. The Aryan truck says "Speed 40KM". That's only 25 MPH. Traffic has to go much faster than that, right?

matthew staton said...

i will find out about the dipper.
swastika is a common luck symbol here, but the aryan thing is a bit odd, right?
cars go slow here. 25 mph is probably about right. insane, huh? If you saw the way people drove you'd understand. they need to drive slow to not die. Tonight There ws a motorcycle driving fast and Vinod sad the guy was "bad." fast is discouraged i think.

sheila said...

Use Dipper at night - dip your headlights - don't blind me with your highbeams

Nice to see they speak English in India

matthew staton said...

sheila- it's so nice to know you are reading