What holds a dump truck up...
moreWhat would be on this particular bucket's list? Well, for sure, stop at all railroad crossings...
moreA Hoover for cleaning out old oil tanks and stuff like that.
moreAnd a fifth wheel too, as the truckers call it...
morePersonally, I've always loved the sound of the name, Bristol-Donald, and have seen it on mud flaps of trucks for years. Turns out it's a Newark-based company that makes truck bodies...
moreHis job involves a lot of rocking and rolling of mute beings with tiny, featureless heads and narrow shoulders...
moreAn oxymoron, sure, but this utility truck did bring to mind a kind of white noise or a representational canvas tilting into geometric abstraction...
moreWhere 18-wheel cowboys corral their 10-wheel mounts...
moreTalk about a windshield filler. Such is the view from the driver's seat as I sat behind a dump truck at a red light in West Orange.
moreAs a guy who takes pictures wherever he goes--which is to say not on assignment and not by invitation, though also not by trespassing--I hear these words from time to time.
"Can I help you?" is, of course, a polite way of saying, "Who the hell do you think you are taking pictures of my [fill in the blank]?"
I heard them again this morning.
moreWhy do I have this thing about trucks? Not all trucks, just ones that for some reason arrest my attention. Like this one down the Shore, that I followed for a block or two until I could get close enough to take a picture.
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