Featured Work
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TRUCKER AT WORK by Charlene Aycock IPA
© copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved. / You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without a written signed contract. It is also against copyright laws to upload any of my images, writings, or art to PHOTOBUCKET, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, FLICKR, or any other internet sight. A MONETARY SETTLEMENT for any unauthorized use, and prosecution in a US Federal Court, as well as Court Cost will be assessed. I used my Canon EOS Rebel XT, with a EOS Lens 18-55mm. / BEST VIEWED LARGE. TAKEN AS IS. This is my husband at the wheel of our Big Truck. He serves the people of the United States as a truck driver delivering food in all 48 states. He has been a truck driver for about twenty years, driving all kinds of freight and trucks. Working for our country and its people in many different ways. The work is the hardest I have ever known, and with a lot of sacrifices. We don’t always get to be together, when I stay home I don’t see him much, we do not get a lot of time off. One of our littlest grandsons always says..”Pa Pa on the truck!” It is a heartbreaker.
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King of the wrench by George Gantt
You never know what you will see in our shop.
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AEC Mammoth Major London Brick. by Mike Jeffries
In 1934 AEC added an “auxiliary axle” to their six-wheeler goods model to increase the lorry’s payload and the archetypal British heavy goods vehicle was born. With a lightweight platform body and Duramin cab the Mk II Mammoth Major which superseded the Mk I in 1935 could carry a legal payload of 16 tons which expressed as a percentage of its gross weight is 73%—-—-———the very latest modern artic might just achieve a ratio of 68% so modern day engineers have still some way to go to match what was accomplished by AEC over 70 years ago! Sixteen tons of housebricks works out at about 8,000 bricks all loaded and unloaded by hand, no wonder people were fitter in those days. The original painting in oils on 20”x30” canvas was painted over twenty years ago for my first transport calendar and then sold to an AEC enthusiast. A painting like this of your favourite vehicle, British or American, in oils on canvas or board would cost about £1000. E-mail mike@transportartist .co.uk to commission your own unique work of art by one of Britain’s leading transport artists.
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Tying the Load by bygeorge
/ . / / 09/01/09 in Truckies thanks to Janine / . / Merv hard at work tieing down the load on his truck. / . /
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Hurry up and wait (Self portrait) by George Gantt
I placed the camera on the dash and set the timer . I used the map lights on the overhead console for lighting . / Alternate titles- / This load should have been ready 45 minutes ago. / Take your time I have all night. / Good looking 39 year old truck driver.
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Trucker Tim. by Mick Smith
I had the camera at work today to get some truck shots. Tim was dropping a trailer in the yard so I bailed him up for a quick pic.
Recent Work
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THE BILL by L. Bazor
That what working truck are about.
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Taunton Cider Leyland Octopus by Mike Jeffries
Originally in the ownership of Courage brewery this 1949 Leyland Octopus 22.0/1 spent most of its working life with Taunton Cider in whose livery we see it here at a bottling plant unloading its tasty cargo. Though very plain and simple the cab is a classic and was a worthy rival to its main competitor AEC. The fact that more AECs of this era seem to be in preservation than Leylands makes it even more fortunate that this vehicle still survives very much in working order in the capable hands of the living legend Mr John Corah of Bovey Tracy who, incidentally owns the original painting. A painting like this of your favourite vehicle, British or American, in oils on canvas or board would cost about £1000. E-mail mike@transportartist .co.uk to commission your own unique work of art by one of Britain’s leading transport artists.
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LNER Ford B type by Mike Jeffries
Ironically the railways were one of the biggest users of motor lorries with each of the Group companies, the GWR, LMS, LNER and SR having sizable fleets for delivery of shipments from railheads to customers country wide. Although this system of distribution worked very well for decades gradually the long distance “just in time” method from source to customer won out in the end with its advantage of less trans-shipment, less reliance on warehousing and speed, but of course at the eventual cost in terms of road conjestion, safety and pollution. In theory rail transport over distances of, say, fifty miles, is more efficent than road, better to have one locomotive of 3000hp hauling fifty laden wagons on a safe signalled system in terms of fuel and labour costs than fifty lorries each of 300hp, each with a driver pounding down a motorway with all the dangers of driving in all weathers. But road, gradually at first, won out over rail in the movement of goods on our small island. Here a Ford B type of 1936 in the immediate post-war period before Nationalisation takes its load off the weighbridge at York’s goods depot and is in the livery of the LNER’s road fleet. A painting like this of your favourite vehicle, British or American, in oils on canvas or board would cost about £1000. E-mail mike@transportartist .co.uk to commission your own unique work of art by one of Britain’s leading transport artists.
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Post Office Supplies Scammell rigid 6 by Mike Jeffries
The Post Office Supplies Department as distinct from the postal side had quite a fleet of heavy lorries and were known as the Red Fleet while the Engineering Department was dubbed the Green Fleet. Here in a scene from 1937 an impresive Scammell rigid 6 turns out of Post office premises into a busy London street, these magnificent machines were quite advanced for their time with Gardner engines, air brakes and giant balloon tyres but the beautiful livery with black lining was the icing on the cake. This painting 20”x30” in oils on board was painted for a transport calendar and is for sale at £1000. Please remember this image is my property and protected by copyright law.
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the chicken dance by TudorSaxon
adam starts the ritual where each person on seeing the coal starts a shuffle where they scratch and rub like a chicken.apparently you can gauge the quality , to see them all together is a rare tribal thing not done in secret either.
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Test dirt........Do not wash by George Gantt
Drivers just love to mess with each other.
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k and j by TudorSaxon
keiths low loader
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Truckies Keep The World Turning! by JaninesWorld
A photo of Mike’s mate who drives for the quarry industry here in South Australia. Lots of little hills for me to stand on to get up a little higher for the shot. /
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Large DAF articulated lorry driving through summer flash flooding road condition in Britain 2007 by RedSteve
2007 – Summer rain flooding caused major road transport problems for vehicles across Gloucestershire in Britain including this large DAF lorry
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THROUGH SNOW, SLEET, HE TRUCKS ON. by Charlene Aycock IPA
All images are the copyright of the artist – / © Charlene M. Aycock / Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. / All Rights Reserved. Copying, altering, manipulating, redistributing displaying, modifying, distributing and/or selling any image without prior written consent/contract from the artist is strictly prohibited and subject to any and all legal remedies. It is also against copyright laws to upload any of my images, writings, or art to PHOTOBUCKET, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE, FLICKR, or any other internet sight. A MONETARY SETTLEMENT for any unauthorized use, and prosecution in a US Federal Court, as well as Court Cost will be assessed. I used my Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT 350D, with EOS Lens 18 – 55mm. / BEST VIEWED LARGE. AS IS. This is my husband, outside having to put on chains. Better than the postman, truck drivers truck on through snow, sleet, rain, and much more. Putting on chains is one rough part of the job, but makes everyone much safer.
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Mack Truck Workhorse by JaninesWorld
I managed to capture this truckie barrelling down this dirt road I was travelling on heading to Pt. Sturt, South Australia. Photo taken from inside my car. /
About This Group
This group will be especially dedicated to the success of the person behind the wheel and for the photographer to capture the Truck Driver who drives the Big Rig and Semi Trailer trucks that you see everywhere. Without these men and women dedicating their lives to the road the world would not turn. It is a hard life they have, sleepless nights and long hauls across the country from one side to the other. Truckies as they are more commonly known as are the backbone of a country. PLEASE NOTE: PHOTOS MUST INCLUDE THE TRUCK DRIVER SOMEWHERE IN THE IMAGE.
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