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south america home to true veterans of the road we join them on a voyage of discovery from the state of co us in brazil to sao paulo and the state of sun to cut out a knot and finally to the small city of miss a dose in northeastern argentina players in the us may play a lot of rugby. going to these trucks maybe museum items back in germany but are still valiantly rolling back the years on the roads of brazil played out in numbers look nothing no place our journey begins in the brazilian state of call us at a truck stop that's packed with old timers this one looks a little worse for wear head is definitely on the rusty side was. but.

look at it all right. if i want my way from bellaire. i want to try and load up some watermelons here and bring them to sao paulo. and see always go the same way. little hook apostasy i've been taking the same route for 38 years from sao paolo to bellingham and from the south part of think it would be one when i get back to sao paulo i'll have a 970 kilometer journey hi i'm a woman i was a fish my truck is still going after 6000000 kilometers on the clock although i have had to replace the engine a few times but i spend more time caring for it with than for my family. well money that they've got my life is spent in the truck. i did go to school but i dropped out to fulfill my childhood dream which has now become

a nightmare. life but if you love roses you have to live with the thorns to write. love in a bad. song what are those thorns. roberto if it ever does some is no 64 years old. his truck has helped him take care of 3 wives and 10 children he says with pride. this is l sounds a popular truckers diner in the area. roberto lovingly calls his truck i might allow the yellow one it's 40 years old. who looking at your money else's husband was a truck driver too. that's him here with the 1113. there are a load of them still on the roads of brazil 131-315-1320 extension 13.

the 1st from mercedes brazil good vehicles from a group of men who complain that it's diesel not blood that runs through the veins of these men even their families that the bag. is yes cut me open and you'll find these all. your truck driving is in our blood the blood bank. drivers can get a meal at el cells for 15 day ice the equivalent of 3 euros 50 party and affordable fair. amount of heat and if i have the money to get a new truck it would be another mercedes to not move more food to. the diner is located by the truck stop near shoutin polish start a small town about 1200 kilometers north of south palo.

from here it's just a few minutes drive to the offices of a fruit wholesaler. the company purchases entire harvests from farmers and then sells the property except markets in the cities. roberto is hoping to get a delivery to sao paulo because it's close to where he lives. have faith in the lord with all your heart reads the company sign. joins other drivers sitting outside. they're all waiting to be assigned a delivery. boy. who would not be reasonable for a little that way it can take hours if not longer it was. sometimes

it's 2 or 3 days depending on demand. at long last a company representative emerges and has deliveries to assign to come. out for $150.00 a day ice per ton of properties with that money you'd be broke by the time you got to sell palo but that's all she has to offer. right. it's all about supply and demand when there are fewer trucks available the price rises when there are a lot like now the price goes down market patience is a virtue in brazil and specially for truck drivers it's the only offer they receive all afternoon. working maybe it'll work out tomorrow god willing. people are going to be. a little lost it isn't easy.

on a landfill like sunderland was to send them money. at all says steiner the truckers can recharge their own batteries while also feeling ill. home sick coming. to. the battle has been on the road for 12 days and today is his beloved wife's birthday. song love the 2 he sends her happy rich man stole the truth. sajid. and long as she told me tomorrow i'll probably be able to load a delivery and be in sao paulo on sunday. love

. love. love love. the next morning there are even more trucks lined up outside the wholesaler. the cost of the competition and speculation among buyers is paid by the drivers. of it all to the 4 trucks drive off without a buyer for the watermelons. they load up and set off you but they don't know where they will ultimately be unloading much of what the host sale or fruit talk now does is try to find a buyer who may not like. you can cut me they then send a fax for the driver to print out at a gas station. that's the sales license which the driver needs to be allowed into

the market yet. the beer double for my deacon his team but i don't set out until i know where i'm headed to avoid stress on the road. please if it's us who are left with any law. also there the it's our time that's being spandex and money for food there's no point getting the union involved they might resolve your current problem but then you're blacklisted and you won't get any more jobs from anyone to go to haiti which might explain why religious mantras are rare source of comfort also seen on the trucks themselves thanks i'll do so i can't say if i'll get on the road today we'll see more about way thanks thanks dave roberto decides to set off just spike not having a precise destination for his delivery 1st he has to have his truck wait while

empty to ensure the weight of his load can be verified when delivered at the other end thank god then he continues to the plantations to pick up 15 tons of watermelon thanks to. the state of going us is dominated by big landowners especially cattle breeders. they control the farming sector while also holding political posts in brasilia the connections they enjoy in the capital enable them to constantly expand their land assets they then lease their fields to local farmers. the farmers sell their produce to the wholesalers thank.

you. love. this is the best part of the journey when the trucks loaded up and we can finally get going. whatever the youngins can do so can the. 15 tons of

watermelon on board headed for the state of. it's a 1200 kilometer journey from here which will take him 3 days. over half of all goods transported in brazil are delivered by truck often along very poor roads roberto has his own motto adorning his precious truck for the sake of our own life is worth living. god is a baby. boy isn't. it

about we should. be as he thought of my own. you must. believe me going to make god but i must. be in. a year after that film was shot german car maker mercedes-benz opened a factory on farmland just 20 kilometers outside sao paulo the factory would make diesel trucks and later buses to. almost half of the trucks and buses on the roads of the country were built by mercedes benz told brazil but despite the company's high profile our film crew were not allowed inside the factory gates here in south . pole. but a privately run museum in the town does open its doors specially for this man

a nice surprise for 80 year old quality engineer descended down jal who used to work at mercedes dope are still on. this one's from my time at the company it has the heart of mercedes. although the body was made by nikola over 30 years whom you call. there so i feel nostalgic. but so i really miss that time i mentioned the workers used to call the company or bomb a mercedes and bring that. i want my money or seeds. in my time there were 15000 people working there there were 3 cooperative stores for the workforce he worthless if you could buy everything you needed for one month even clothes and household appliances and at the end of the month it would be taken

off of your wages for it by me but it was way cheaper than regular stores because the company bought it and even then i just met. matt you also had excellent medical care provided in-house for staff and their families i missed this and the company also had a football pitch for staff and a club where we could have dances to celebrate the festus joining us if we were there all the time on friday we go home but on saturday we'll be back again. and say in the face of. mama mercedes since now a distant memory brazil is facing a serious economic crisis demand on the truck market has slumped a mercedes benz dough brazil has already seen redundancies and severance packages perhaps it's no coincidence that the management are not keen on a foreign t.v. crew taking a look around. it's day

to roberto's trip to sound. a bit of it. might be a bit better just follow the money. love to. the. wrong. use the old trucker songs help to keep his spirits up while he's on the road. laughing. love. to. love. it love it. leave.

jamie to. elaborate. i've done. it for. you who would you fancy something new and better in life. but given the chance to swap i'm not sure my heart would be enough. to. tell me things we've been partners for so many years and my truck's never made me unhappy oh you can watch it makes my expectations it's a really sound truck no bill got there it's perfectly happy when i drive slowly for the good of that when i step on it because i have a deadline to meet also no problem at the end of the day that see i can't help it i like it. that i feel comfortable with it even when i'm asleep she didn't think i would never.

live to sleep. eat. every cent account says roberto you have to watch your budget to end up with any money in your pocket that means only getting gas where he can get a discount alito and diesel here cost 770 cents. on who blew the mobile lose 3 re isolator but i get a discount if we don't move my feet do you think government. won't immediately. took. a. little money we have to cover highway toll charges and everything else

ourselves the companies don't pay a cent to hold. on to as long as the drivers are on the road the wholesalers. and distribution companies continue to play the market and the drivers. roberto goes to ask if a fax has arrived for him. he's expecting one his delivery order from the company for talk. and of course i still don't know where i'll be taking the watermelons these are the forms of the stronger double the song was. played the only information he does have is the approximate direction he's heading with his 1513 model truck and its 15 time load of melons.

to. sleep is journey takes him through the state of maine us. past an indian sugarcane fields. the lights on the horizon are not a city they belong to the enormous sugar refineries. another tiring day at the wheel comes to an end. it's friday and bankers short and pages is looking forward to the weekend he's checking the weather and. where in the state of pa in the southwest of brazil. showdown lives here on a farm belonging to his mother along together with his wife letitia. and and his

mini mercedes and their city neo 681 please tell me you feel me. you can. be. $23.00 jordan is $24.00 the couple are sprucing up a small framed truck for their sunday excursion. jordan bought it secondhand and restored it himself. for me see. that i've always been crazy about mercedes. you know when i was 16 i made a paper model of this truck which i still have today. it's an old

love. the top hole and is taken from my father's 1st truck i have childhood memories. into that it was really difficult to find the original parts for the restoration. but i spent 2 years searching for the white protective hub cap for example pressure. in the 19 seventies and eighties people thought that chrome elements would bring good luck and more jobs. this number plate holder was already made like that by mercedes to sort of your feet. it's an original part that i found and restored. and let me see i got married in december during the summer in purcell. there were 3 of us in our truck. with. me planned every little

detail. i had my dress on let's let's down the side to make it easier to get in and out. when you made a little truck for our rings. yes we were so happy that day. many of the people in the region are the descendants of european settlers and economic refugees families who have now been here for 5 generations in the. community or something today my forefathers come from tree or in germany they started to farm the fields here back then the brazilian government gave away land to immigrants since the. immigrants who settled all the way down to floaty are no police on the coast of santa catarina state they also included many italians such as the forefathers

apollo luis. there's a little film playing in my head when i look at this vehicle my father used to drive it i learned how to drive while i sat on his lap. when i was 14 i started helping him at the wheel although i didn't have a license. paolo is now a building contractor and a collector of vintage mercedes-benz models. people know martial law. well the areas today covered with tower blocks used to be dense forest land. back then we were given permission to cut down trees. we would load up a truck like this with timber 4 times a day and then take it to hospital and shop some floor not us for heating fuel.

paolo has tracked down veteran mercedes models all over the country he's no restored 8. but he. also. gets. to. look his most recent acquisition is this 312. he was already 10 years old when i was born i was born in 67 and the truck and 57. trucks like this helped to build the roads in brazil by transporting materials. this was the 1st mercedes model the engine brakes tires and axles are all original parts. take it for a drive 1st to see if you like it says his mechanic. the starter the clutch they're all from 1957.

you think you know there's no secret to these engines with a pair of pliers and some wire you'll never have a breakdown like this one. i'll start it up and we'll see yes we obviously. kitty. thank all those veterans are not exhibition items they're used for their original purpose thank you. they're in good shape and because they're more than 15 years old and i don't have to pay any road tax. the maintenance costs are really low to. those of my friends

i use the flat face as we call the 321 all the time insurance for a new one will be too expensive plus there's no place a new model can get to that this baby care of the my good. lot of the. little. bill salted to buy sound when i knock on the tires tells me whether they have enough air and i'm. big on a lot to. tell you but there might be a puncture from a nail somewhere just wasn't until this turkey a tire like this currently costs $800.00 re ice which is too much. like it so after

a while i swap the front tires to the rear before and then get them retreaded. since he said he that only costs $550.00 rise. to the positive for me and i'd love to give it a general overhaul but earning so little and having to pay for all those things while on the road means you have to choose. either get the truck restored or feed your family so i'm constantly having to postpone it and in the meantime the rust is getting worse to my. it's sunday and roberto is around a 100 kilometers away from some fellow and was. about to. go on but. oh. a.

lot of. them are. casual mailbox and these guys were most posed to go with these melons you know not that old. saw. the sprawling metropolis that never sleeps the main wholesalers market is located in the downtown area it's late by the time roberto arrives and he still has no delivery order but he heads down to the market nonetheless. the woman at the gate wants to know what goods he has on board having no delivery order means roberto will have to leave his truck by the entrance to the car park.

it will be safe there she assures him. roberto is now just 50 kilometers from home but he's worried that parking his truck unload there would put them at risk of being stolen. night and day trucks roll up here from all over brazil $12000.00 a day in total. was. many of the drivers have been waiting several days to unload their deliveries not a good sign for roberto. their patience man but sometimes the truck drivers get fed up especially when they see their fruit beginning to rot sometimes reports roberto they open their truck bed side panels and dump fruit onto

the street but unloading their anger like that will only hurt themselves he sense they're basically throwing away their own pay charges but you can often wait for $4.00 days or more at the market and no one is paying for your meals let alone all those last days. some drivers resort to trying their luck in the lottery. the baritone has had enough he goes looking for the representative of his customer for talk who he was supposed to meet here with other. was and this is where the city supermarkets and other retailers buy their property is. against the backdrop of the economic crisis crime is a growing factor there have even been robberies at the market itself the newspapers have almost daily reports of trucks being stolen and their drivers abducted many do

not survive says roberto. was the market is a good shooting location for pain but outa a t.v. . the show that caters to truck drivers oh look i'm you know go up with a. baritone his vocal in his praise of his beloved truck but silent about the conditions he has to work under. he finally tracks down his crew tack contact. to hold their feet the man is still making calls to find a buyer salvi i just want to unload my stuff it will bring them to a company warehouse in about 2 hours while it is that all i want is my money but all i have left is 2 and a half 1000 or a ice about 640 euros for a journey of 6000 kilometers and 13 work days that is easiest for the car.

to let me know me great compared to even look to be pretty shocked and got me on his. defense he meant that i could all see somebody come over the last hour you. can probably ensure that what i cited. it was the auto makers 1st factory in latin america mercedes-benz argentina was founded in 1951 specializing in trucks and buses. its management would later face accusations of having collaborated with the military dictatorship in argentina but its products are to this day only to lines to buy many in the country.

this is northeastern argentina. the heartland of the country's cowboys and rangers a guy. the land. this small city in his province with a population of $45000.00 just so happens to be called say it is going. to get it. out loud. to feed. the region is the birthplace of the gauchos but also has strong associations with the national drink tonic wheat amanti 81st consumed by indigenous peoples. mercedes the town that doesn't take its name from the card which it

predates by several decades they say it is is a name given to girls in spanish. a mercedes means our lady of mercy in the months dedicated to families she comes to visit school children at home. public transportation in the city of miss a it is comprises a fleet of old buses all of them vintage mercedes benz models. that is drunk everywhere including at this family run car workshop. we saw god and his 19 year old son for condo are the owners of the buses used to ferry macedonians all across their city. and about him and after. i got home i videoed all the work that you will never sell them. they're part of our family heritage and i want to see it you know to make it something handed down through the generations my father was

a bus driver and i've carried on the tradition and hopefully my son to take. c.m. put in mr we've only ever had mercedes they're easy to repair and are super reliable and. it's a comfortable ride for the passengers. and they're also a very affordable ride for people from the countryside who come to work in the city . according to my mother when i was 4 months old she would put me in a basket to write on the bus with my father. and i would always fall asleep i was like a switch and the noise from the box like a lullaby. for the youngest passengers it's their school bus.

and the other me when one of them drives past i can tell from the sound which model it is. that. the suckers have 3 buses which set out from the main square in 3 different directions. and his province was also one monk that destinations for european settlers in the 19th century such as the soccer family. the family jassim few we have swiss german roots. the solders host reunion events a few years ago we had a gathering of $600.00 solders so. i checked our family tree and i'm the 5th generation here in argentina and yes i'm lucky in 30 minutes young.

to love and to care for to god to west parts of the sagas and when the seats for the passengers have reached the end of their tether here in my state is people give the agent trucks and new lease of life. no these eggs weren't broken by the bumpy ride that happened while we were loading the trucks a 2 man up front there are the sons of the city's main vegetable trader who say be a down to. the convenience store is also

a family run enterprise. this is their boss their father in sayville don take. it away oh i bought this off the solders. it was the 1st public bus in our city and i've had it for 24 years it's never had a breakdown. more than the world. but i would never sell would i want to market such a great boss i can. look at. where no back in brazil in the time out. it's sunday and the young bankers out and his wife leticia a town official are all fun a day trip to the coast and then on to the mountains. it's a region with

a scenic landscape that the roads are lined with pine tree forests. of the old. giovanni. a heinous who loves me a home body when i turned 18 i told my father that i wanted to be a truck driver you see my father said no way you can't make a living out of that but you don't either me or i'm grateful that he said no good just to see i really like being a banker so was i would also fancy working with a truck the old cars they're putting out. right i drive during the day and you at night i reckon we'll do that one day.

playing. and joining the couple on their day out is counting on luis from floaty an office. there touring the. region and the foothills of the several astro mountain range. kahlo is eager to prove that his 312 built in 1957 will have no problem scaling the 1500 meter high set. which it

does passing by a new truck that appears to have broken down. was penned in trucks soon comes to the rescue. the old timers on the other hand reached the top in top form where they have a fair share of admirers to the delight of the proud owner paul. tuttle. also good trucks don't age they just change owners along as if they're going to leave. early leverage and they never let us down unlike the new trucks that have to be towed and you've seen the proof of the fuel the growth you know again they're

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