Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92h0UGPNr-8
German to English Translation:
It’s not colourful enough for Gulhan Afriddi as he steers a true piece of Art over Pakistan's rocky roads.
His everyday truck of an English brand Bettford has been decorated & painted for whopping 4000 Euros.
I love my decorated 10 tonne truck, customers love it too and that’s why there is always good jobs Gulhan sais.
Afridis super colourful Truck stops at every spot.
With the massive truck he transports machinery, rice & wheat.
He earns himself 450 Euros a month, a small fortune in Pakistan.
His truck was decorated by Guhla Nabi, here at a mechanical workshop on the edge of Islamabad.
If it’s about decorating or colouring in Trucks Navi is the man to talk to, since 40 years is the wreckage rebuilder in business.
Up to 12 Trucks a year are rebuilt & decorated by Guhla & his 11 workers.
With the 10 kilo Hammer Nabi work on the trucks as if he wasn’t 56 but only a teenager.
We take up to 3-4 days sometimes even longer to get the dints out. It’s very hard to make money & our arms hurt at the end of the day. You need a lot of strength to do this Nabi sais.
Behind these stunning trucks is a lot of work, first the truck is rendered with wood.
On top of that pre- painted colour panels are placed then it’s freshly painted & re-cabled.
These trucks are a big eye catcher. If everything goes good the truck can be finished in around 3 weeks sometimes even 2.
Every customer has very different ideas of how they want their trucks to look.
Some want horse pictures or even actors some want pictures of men.
Depending on the work it can cost from 1000 to 4000 Euros.
Since 900 years this “Mogul Kaiser” time consuming art work has been created.
Not only trucks are decorated pretty much everything with 4 wheels.
These Trucks are like a business card, the drivers behind the wheel express themselves with them as to where they are from and to what their dreams are etc.
After one hour of hard labour in the hot sun Gulha takes a break.
Toscha Usha his business parter also has a Painting workshop outside, here is where the trucks come for the final touch!
After 3 days Gulhan will pick up the truck, that’s how long it takes to paint.
Apparently all colours are waterproof.
A couple of years ago a foreigner came to us he was French or German he desperately wanted a nice picture for his VW buggie so we painted him a nice eagle onto his bonnet sais Toscha
At the workshop not only are trucks repaired painted & decorated but they are created from scratch.
This is a big business in Pakistan despite the political turbulence and ever rising oil prices the transportation is still booming and the economy manages to grow.
Per finished truck Gulham earns him self 250 Euros, which is good money considering these kind of jobs would normally be paid a lot less.
The more money spent on the truck the nicer the finished product.
It’s a real competition between the drivers; each one wants to be better than the other.
Some of these trucks are 20 to 30 years old.
And in the eyes of the European these trucks are Old timers ready for the museum.
In Pakistan on the other hand these trucks are a real hit and until that changes
Guhla Nabi won’t be complain about the work he is getting.
His everyday truck of an English brand Bettford has been decorated & painted for whopping 4000 Euros.
I love my decorated 10 tonne truck, customers love it too and that’s why there is always good jobs Gulhan sais.
Afridis super colourful Truck stops at every spot.
With the massive truck he transports machinery, rice & wheat.
He earns himself 450 Euros a month, a small fortune in Pakistan.
His truck was decorated by Guhla Nabi, here at a mechanical workshop on the edge of Islamabad.
If it’s about decorating or colouring in Trucks Navi is the man to talk to, since 40 years is the wreckage rebuilder in business.
Up to 12 Trucks a year are rebuilt & decorated by Guhla & his 11 workers.
With the 10 kilo Hammer Nabi work on the trucks as if he wasn’t 56 but only a teenager.
We take up to 3-4 days sometimes even longer to get the dints out. It’s very hard to make money & our arms hurt at the end of the day. You need a lot of strength to do this Nabi sais.
Behind these stunning trucks is a lot of work, first the truck is rendered with wood.
On top of that pre- painted colour panels are placed then it’s freshly painted & re-cabled.
These trucks are a big eye catcher. If everything goes good the truck can be finished in around 3 weeks sometimes even 2.
Every customer has very different ideas of how they want their trucks to look.
Some want horse pictures or even actors some want pictures of men.
Depending on the work it can cost from 1000 to 4000 Euros.
Since 900 years this “Mogul Kaiser” time consuming art work has been created.
Not only trucks are decorated pretty much everything with 4 wheels.
These Trucks are like a business card, the drivers behind the wheel express themselves with them as to where they are from and to what their dreams are etc.
After one hour of hard labour in the hot sun Gulha takes a break.
Toscha Usha his business parter also has a Painting workshop outside, here is where the trucks come for the final touch!
After 3 days Gulhan will pick up the truck, that’s how long it takes to paint.
Apparently all colours are waterproof.
A couple of years ago a foreigner came to us he was French or German he desperately wanted a nice picture for his VW buggie so we painted him a nice eagle onto his bonnet sais Toscha
At the workshop not only are trucks repaired painted & decorated but they are created from scratch.
This is a big business in Pakistan despite the political turbulence and ever rising oil prices the transportation is still booming and the economy manages to grow.
Per finished truck Gulham earns him self 250 Euros, which is good money considering these kind of jobs would normally be paid a lot less.
The more money spent on the truck the nicer the finished product.
It’s a real competition between the drivers; each one wants to be better than the other.
Some of these trucks are 20 to 30 years old.
And in the eyes of the European these trucks are Old timers ready for the museum.
In Pakistan on the other hand these trucks are a real hit and until that changes
Guhla Nabi won’t be complain about the work he is getting.
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