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    West African Truckers

    The truck driver holds a mythic stature in American music, from the hayseed hagiographies of Slim Jacobs to the liner notes of Big Black's 'Songs About Fucking.' There aren't many songs about African truckers, but they are no less champions of industry than their US counterparts. On their backs rests a continent's economic development and through their bloodstreams runs a hell of a lot of HIV. Full story

  • Meet Carl Tanner: Bounty Hunter, Trucker, Operatic Tenor

    He packed a sawed-off shotgun back in his bounty hunting days and carried it right out in front so everyone could see. Under his black leather jacket was a 9mm Beretta, and on his ankle a .25, just in case. “I was in my late 20s,” Carl Tanner began. He is a linebacker of a man, G… Full story

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    Masaru Tatsuki Photographs Trucks With Crazy Shit All Over Them

    Long-haul trucks covered in elaborate, eye-popping neon lights and colorful airbrushed murals of fantasy creatures and religious figures are known as "decotora" in Japan. Full story