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<\/a>Painted trucks light up the deppressive charcoal drawn scenery<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Truck painting is a profitable business, and good truck painters, having a good grasp of the trucke\u043a symbolics are always in high demand. <\/p>\n Trucks can be read as a book: whether they are public or private carriers, what permits do they have, who is the proud painter.<\/p>\n Another important element of decoration is an allegoric reflection of the owner’s confession. In Meghalaya the majority of trucks have Christian symbolics.<\/p>\n Sometimes the symbols are so elaborated, its hard to guess what they are meant to tell.<\/p>\n Indian trucks, so different in attire, still have some beauty canons. This relates to colour: a truck can never be mainly blue, green and by no means grey. Most often you will meet bright orange vehicles:<\/p>\n Tata trucks are driven along the roads of India with might and main. They are not very expensive, so their durability can sometimes be also “poor”.<\/p>\n Sometimes it can be even more sad:<\/p>\n<\/a>In this minimalistic attire Tata trucks start their triumphal parade along the roads of India<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>And after a few weeks in a workshop they turn into bright dreamabouts<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>An encoded sign of National Permit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>More often you will see the list of states permitted for th\u0443 carrier’s operation. They rarely include the restricted states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, that require special permits<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Sometimes it looks very unexpected for India<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Vehicle belonging to a sikh. Guru Nanak. the founder of Sikhism, is sitting in an obligatory turban (men sikhs never cut their hair and always wear a turban to hide it beneath) and with beads. In top right angle is a saint symbol of khanda<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>And here’s a Hinduist truck with an Ohm syllable and swastikas on its forehead. Its icon is the cloud-like Lord Krishna with a flute and a spouse<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Here’s Garuda, the sacred eagle, gripping on the globe. Garuda is the carrier of Lord Vishnu, which makes him the most important figure among other carriers. The world is wrapped by a band stating: “Art by Beruah Bertola, Assam. Telephone:… “<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Do you have any clue, what this could be??<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Traditional way of coal loading: big bowls carried on the head<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Sometimes whell-legs “sink” beneath them and they fell headlong to the pavement. Even the sacred Garuda was of no help here<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>First thing to do is to unload coal and send it to the customer. Then you can think, what to do with the poor wreck<\/em><\/p>\n