Videos tagged with "truck"

Nicaragua Trip Part 10: The Pan American Highway [00:39]
All of my life, I've wanted to see the Pan American Highway. I've never even rode the US portion, so this was a long time coming. In this short video, here is a taste of the Pan American Highway on the road to Esteli just outside Managua. What is not shown here is we were delayed 40 minutes due to a truck protest blocking the highway. That happened just after this video was filmed.
Tags: Cigar, Nicaragua, Pan American Highway

Work is Dangerous *True Story Sunday* [06:38]
In the US Army there is a "Culture of Cowardice." It feels like everyone has been trained to cover their asses and lay low for 20 years so they can get out and collect their pension. This really bothered my while I was in Nicaragua, because I was young and wanted to just get things done. So when I would get in trouble for working hard in the name of safety, and no one would care when I went and sat down for the rest of the day it didn't make any sense to me. Especially when I knew that I could raise my hand at any moment and volunteer to walk around the roads of Iraq with a shovel looking for IED's. Don't tell me you care about my safety when you would send me to die without a second thought out in the desert. The day after I was kicked out of the fork lift I was sitting in the motorpool office waiting for them to print me off a slip of paper which would become my license. Even though I was never tested on the machine, I would have a slip of paper saying I could drive it. While I was waiting a soldier came in and said there was an 18 wheeler blocking the road outside. He wanted to know if anybody could move it. I raised my hand and said I could do it. I had never driven an 18 wheeler before. He asked if I had a license, and I told him, "No, but if you need it moved I can do it." And I stood up to walk outside and move the truck, when another soldier in the waiting room chimed in and said, "Dude I wouldn't I heard some kid got pulled out of a forklift yesterday for ...
Tags: true story sunday, motorcycle, motovlog, panama, KLR650, army story, Nicaragua, working is dangerous

assembly line lunch in Jinotepe Nicaragua $1.30 for HUGE heaping plate [06:06]
I arrived before the crew and watched them setup the assembly line from the back of their pickup truck. 6 minutes. I divide the plate onto two plates and eat well for 65 cent US a meal.
Tags: Jinotepe, Carazo, Nicaragua, food, cheap, assembly, line, LEAN, manufacturing, JIT, just, in, time, large, portions

Crossing the River in an Overcrowded Truck - Nicaragua [01:28]
On our way to a church service and drama, we had to cross a river in an overcrowded passenger truck. Located in Leon, Nicaragua. Nicaraguans have no sense of personal space!
Tags: Nicaragua, Truck

Truck selling Produce on the streets of Boaco Nicaragua [00:35]

Tags: Boaco, Nicaragua