Trucks of Indonesia

"YumYumOfTheYum" (yumyumoftheyum) 10/05/2015 at 09:15 • Filed to: None

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Let me introduce you to my beautiful (albeit corrupt) country, Indonesia. She is an archipelago, and the bulk of the land are large volcanic island. We are agrarian by nature, and some of you might already have been acquainted with the infamous Bali island. Although there are 17,507 more islands to visit, for those travelholics. Trucks are pretty much primary mode of transportation used here to deliver goods, and I am always fascinated by my country’s truckers.

I believe some of, if not all, our South East Asian Jalops here share the same sentiment towards you Americans in terms of point of view to trucks. IDK if it’s just a false stereotype caused by too much internet, but apparently you Americans like these:

more power

more displacement

more smoke

more .. bro ?

buzzwords (hint: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , tow rating, etc)

(I’d be happy if someone can correct/clarify, of course :)

So let me introduce you to my country’s truckers’ life. These are their real lives, along with included occupational hazards associated and (a lot of) elbow grease, guts, and stamina needed to accomplish their job with whatever they had in hand. All with manual transmission, I must add.

(Not that I didn’t appreciate truckers from anywhere else in the world, of course. Truckers’ job by nature is challenging, I salute you guys.)

Also credits where it’s due. Hat tips for those Japanese automakers.

So .. Let’s begin, I’ll start with pictures first and then YouTube :

oops, not truck, sorry :)

Special mention because this is Oppo: Mitsubishi Colt T120SS, 1.5l 4G93 engine (yeah, the sister engine of Mitsubishi Evo, the shitbox/econobox Lancer engine)

(action at 0:20 for above)

Bonus: Power !!

vwbeamer > YumYumOfTheYum 10/05/2015 at 09:35

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Is there a law preventing truckers from making two trips? Seems they have to get everything the first trip.

YumYumOfTheYum > vwbeamer 10/05/2015 at 09:38

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Nope, just a lot of bribes trip expenses needed along their way to destination. They solved it by minimizing number of trips, apparently.

Tapas > YumYumOfTheYum 10/05/2015 at 11:12

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Yep, originally from India.

Most trucks on the road are old as hell, have manual transmission, drum brakes, no power steering, no airbags and the horribly underpaid driver/s are a part of the crumple zone.

The manufacturer (Tata) started noticing the trend of dangerously overloaded trucks, so they raised the factor of safety on the drivetrain, etc.

Of course, newer trucks are getting better. But no one wants to spend money when they don’t have to - like when the truck tips over or falls off a cliff, and fixing it costs more than another used old as hell truck/cheap new truck.