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Truck Driving In Russia - Page 4 |
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I enjoyed Russia, despite the difficulties which the country is currently facing. Anybody in a uniform is hard work to deal with, but ordinary Russians are generally very friendly and helpful. Although Russians in Moscow are as cosmopolitan as city-dwellers anywhere else, in the smaller towns and villages, life has changed little since the fall of Communism. |
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Trucks queueing at the Finnish/Russian border at Nuijamaa. Russia is behind the camera. I have spent many days waiting at this border. In the summer, it`s an enjoyable day`s work. In the winter, it`s miserable! This image comes from the Finnish Road Administration`s Russian Border web-cam. Click on the link to see the queue as it is right now. |
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(Above) Minsk city marker. Most towns have large and elaborate signs on the approach road. My trailer was broken into in Minsk, and £6000-worth of cameras stolen. Most of the drivers I worked with were robbed at some time. I was lucky. Others were shot at, or dragged from the cab and beaten up. Theft is a major problem for any Western company doing business with the former USSR. Russian newspapers describe their own country as a "kleptocracy". Ordinary Russians have an expression which sums it up- "He who does not steal from others, steals from his family" |
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Here, for no reason at all, is a GENUINE Russian joke. A dead American chicken and a dead Russian chicken are sitting in the butcher`s shop, plucked, gutted, and ready for sale.
"Look at you" says the American chicken. "You`re pathetic. You are scrawny and sinewy, your flesh is grey, you look unappetising and you smell disgusting"
"Oh yeah?" shoots back the Russian chicken. "Well, at least I died of old age!" |
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Fifty-five year old, Soviet built "Pobeda", still going strong. "Pobeda" means "Victory". Many Russian cars drive around in states of incredible disrepair, and the sight of a Lada sitting in the middle of a four-lane highway with a front wheel which has fallen off, surrounded by a group of puzzled Russians, is one with which every visitor to Russia will be familiar. Cars drive around without bonnets, headlights or windscreens fitted, and the police pay them no attention at all. Any Western vehicle, however, attracts the attention of the authorities at every opportunity! |
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