and at the end of the month it would be taken off your wages for it but i mean but it was way cheaper than regular stores because the company bought it and even our boss that. 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 1st us joining us we were there all the time on friday we go home but on saturday we'll be back again. it's an office i feel. mama mercedes's now a distant memory. serious economic crisis demand on the truck market has slumped and mercedes benz doe 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. the. state

to have roberto's trip to south palm the. debut. as follows. love it if. nothing else. wrong with. the old trucker songs help to keep his spirits up while he's on the road. last week. love. to. play. it was a bit of a. live. game

changing. to the last. done. for. 5 who wouldn't 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 we've been partners for so many years and my truck's never made me unhappy you can watch it meet my expectations it's a really sound truck so bill got that it's perfectly happy when i drive slowly. but when i step on it because i have a deadline to make also no problem at the end of the day the sake of i can't help it i like it. that i feel comfortable with it even when i'm asleep b.c. of it thank goodness.

the sleep. every cent counts 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 it discount. diesel here costs $0.70. a group of the moment lose not 3 rate isolator but i get a discount if we don't move to 15000. fold immediately. of. lumia we have to cover highway told charges and everything else ourselves the

companies don't pay a cent to hold. on to you 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 a talk. and then of course i still don't know where i'll be taking the watermelons these are the forms of the strong. 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. succeed his journey takes him through the state of maine us. past and ending sugarcane fields. the lights on the horizon are not a city they belong to the enormous sugar refinery is. another tiring day at the wheel comes to an end. it's friday and bankers short as is looking forward to the weekend he's checking the weather. where in the state of in the southwest of brazil. dan lives here on a farm belonging to his mother in law together with his wife letitia. and his

mini mercedes and their city neo 600 make one believe that you know meaningful way. you please excuse me. i say. well it. is $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. to push for permissive simply. 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. yes. it's an old

love. the top hole and is taken from my father's 1st truck childhood memories. to that it was really difficult to find the original parts for the restoration. i spent 2 years searching for the white protective hubcap for example special non-directed sit in the 1970 s. and eighty's 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 your feet. it's an original part that i found and restored to. its. young. and let me see i got married in december during the summer in brazil mars and there were 3 of us you me and 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. we're busy. when you made a little truck for our. people here 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. to come you know or something to be 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 seems to me. 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. polo is now a building contractor and a collector of vintage mercedes-benz models. well the areas today covered with tower blocks used to be dense forest land. back then we were given permission to cut down trees. 2 we would load up a truck like this with timber 4 times a day and then take it to hospital and chop some floor not us in the preceding few in.

palo has tracked down veteran mercedes models all over the country he's now a story 8. but if you. look good. this is. his most recent acquisition is this l p 312. and it was already 10 years old when i was born i was born in 67 and the truck in 57. trucks like this helped to build the roads in brazil by transporting materials . this was the 1st mercedes model the engine brakes the 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. so here they

go out. you think you know there's no secret to these engine was 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. 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 i don't have to pay any road tax. the maintenance costs are really low to. those mises i

use the flat face as we call the 320 want all the time insurance for a new one will be too expensive plus there's no place a new model can get to get this baby care of the my. mom. bought a lot of the. bill sold thinking by the sound when i knock on the tires tells me whether they have enough air and i. think i would like to post. there might be a puncture from a nail somewhere was it was i think build a circular tire like this currently costs $800.00 re ice which is too much. like you so after a while i swap the front tires to the rear before and then get them retreaded. to

save use a key that only costs $550.00 re ice. 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 oh. oh oh oh oh. oh oh. it's sunday and roberto is around a 100 kilometers away from some fellow and must. be about to. go on but you. mean to.

plug. them. in geo for the. casual mailbox man these guys were most posed to go with these melons not the old. sao paolo 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 patient 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 says they're basically throwing away their own pay judges 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 so. some drivers resort to trying their luck in the lottery. but. the baritone has had enough he goes looking for the representative of his customer for talk who he was supposed to meet here without even a. was and this is where the city's supermarkets and other retailers buy their property it's. 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 a painter. a t.v. show. that caters to truck drivers oh good god no go up leave. barito is 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. so i am still there the man is still making calls to find a buyer salvi i just want to unload. bring them to a company warehouse in about 2 hours of all of them that are all i want is my money . and all i have left is 2 and a half 1000 re ice about 640 euros for a journey of 6000 kilometers and 13 work days to these years full of the.

water all over love you know me great complete the book the shark and tina got me on this. meant that i could all see some fabric of the us are a good aki. it was the automakers 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 i don't why is tun many in the country.

this is northeastern argentina. the heartland of the country's cowboys and rangers the cultural. so you. can't believe. this small city in his province with a population of 45000 just so happens to be called may say this guy they. believe you may be out of my. mind out. to you. to the region is the birthplace of the gauchos but also has strong associations with the national drink tonic week i'm at 81st can seem to by indigenous peoples. mercedes the town doesn't take its name from the car which it predates by several decades mercedes isn't

a 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 even a. public transportation in the city of my say it is comprises a fleet of old buses all of them vintage mercedes benz models. that he is drunk everywhere including at this family run car workshop. with. god and his 19 year old son fecund 0 are the owners of the buses used to ferry message daniels all across their city. and in about a minute here i got a phone i believe i was out of work and i'm not what you will never sell them. they're part of our family heritage and i. think you know when i get something handed down through the generations my father was

a bus driver and i've carried on the tradition and hopefully my son too. but a minister we've only ever had mercedes are 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 . to. meet them according to my mother when i was 4 months old and she would put me in a basket to ride on the bus with my father. and i would always fall asleep i was like a swing and the noise from the bus like a lullaby. for the youngest passengers it's their school bus.

and the other day. when one of them drives past i can tell from the sound which model it is. that it. was. the suckers have 3 bosses which set out from the main square in 3 different directions. and his province was also among the destinations for european settlers in the 19th century such as the soccer family. the family jassim few may 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 in fact made us young.

to love and to care for it till god was part say the sagas and when the seats for the passengers have reached the end of their tether here in my say it is people give the aging trucks and new lease of life. no these eggs weren't broken by the bumpy ride that happened while we were loading the truck said the 2 men up front they're the sons of the city's main vegetable trader who say be a down to. the convenience store is also

a family run enterprise. but. this is their boss their father and savior dante. terrible i bought this off the solders. it was the 1st public bus in our city and now i've had it for 24 years it's never had a breakdown. in the world. but if i would never sell it i would argue such a great boss that i get. it. when i go back in brazil. it's sunday and the young bankers 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. g.o.v.t. . we have a party 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 know if you know me i'm grateful that he said no i could just see i really like being a banker as i was and i would also fancy working with the old better program. right i drive during the day and you at night my son i reckon will do that one day .

joining the couple on their day out to his town on luis from florida. there touring the. region and the foothills of the several. range. pollo is eager to prove that his 312 built in 1957 will have no problem scaling the 1500 meter high center. which it

does passing by a new truck that appears to have broken down. and indeed a tow truck 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 pilot of. the team. good trucks don't age they just change owners who did one really really really leverage and they never let us down i'm like the new trucks that have to be towed and you've seen the proof of the fuel. preferred you know every and they're not all

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