Wednesday, August 19, 2009

LOAD limits and car safety

Maybe you can remember "back in the day" ... when american made station wagons ... the precursor to the VAN.. they had a rear seat that KIDS LOVED... they were the only ones that could fit back there. The seat faced backwards.
However after numerous deaths and injuries ... it was deemed an unsafe feature.... soon all seats faced forward and seat belts became mandatory.

Step back in time ... omg .. you are in TONGA ...
here seat belts i think are used only in Peace Corps vehicles and for towing disabled cars. As for seating arrangements, well it's everybody get into the back of the truck ... there is NO load limit.. and the first ones in get to sit on the standard Tongan truck seat. It is a 4x6 piece of lumber laid out from side to side of the back of a truck bed. The rest of the people ... AND there are always plenty ... they happily stand and let the wind blow onto their faces.

My record sighting was a fork lift going down the street holding in front of it, a 4 foot by 4 foot pallet ... on that pallet were 12 Chinese workers.... ohhh were was my camera that day !!!!

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