The Restory Retreat Centre

I must confess. I am totally hooked on trucks. Give me a choice between an expensive sports car and a truck and I’ll choose the latter every time. On a day like today where I had to travel all over Johannesburg and the East Rand, the stress of traffic is to a large extent compensated for by all the opportunities to look at trucks. New models, all types of loads, driving next to a favourite on the highway. It is difficult to explain why these heavy vehicles have such an impact on me but I can think of a number of factors that come into play: their sheer power, their sound, their size, the brilliant application of physics in all its forms. For years now I’ve been a secret admirer. Creating files on my computer where I collect all the images I find or dig up of Macks, Kenworths, Freightliners, Peterbilts, Western Stars, Scanias, Internationals. There will come a day when the driver of such a giant will witness my admiration at a depot or petrol station and ask: “Do you w...