Have you ever heard of the show Trick My Truck? It’s essentially Pimp My Ride for work trucks in which 18-wheelers, tow trucks, dump trucks, etc., are made over to look even more fierce and babe worthy than before (’cause you know how women just love a sexy tow truck). I’m familiar with this show because Jake has been known to become transfixed by it whenever we find ourselves in a hotel room with a zillion channels while traveling.
Anyway, Jake told me Afghan soldiers do something similar with their own work trucks.
Here, a member of the Afghan National Army (who happens to sport a dapper sweater vest) shows off his stylin’ ride. Note the multitude of flapping Afghan flags. And the front and back end mysteriously wrapped in netting. Jake says the Afghans adorn their supply trucks with so many doo-dads, bells and whistles that the trucks literally make noise as they roll across the desert, leading American soldiers to dub them ”jingle trucks.” My favorite embellishment on this jingle truck are the pile-up of fake flowers in the windshield. Can sweater vest guy even see over the top of them? Does it matter?
Two more examples of tricked out jingle trucks.
These guys sure take a lot of pride in their vehicles. Jingle all the way.
All original content © 2012 by Jessie Knadler
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Unbelievable! So Afghan soldiers can wear what they want and redecorate their vehicles to look like a ’60′s VW bus if they want? If they are going to learn to stand on their own as a military and a country, so our soldiers can COME HOME, wouldn’t their time while in the military be better spent in some other way?
LOL!!! That’s so sweet. The soldier’s wife knitted a sweater for his army truck!!
You should see the buses in Panama, painted up however the owner wants(yes the city buses are each privately owned, the route is painted on the front so you can’t make a mistake). The taxi’s always have fringe framing the windshields and adornments on the dash.
I admire their individual expression, maybe it’s a step towards recognizing individual rights.
That’s great on so many levels.