We drive down to the service station to fuel up. JC passes the pump so that he can reverse in to get a better angle, but another truck driver decides to nip in and take the pump space. JC doesn’t see this obnoxious manoeuvre and reverses into the other truck. This means we wait for another two hours for traffic police to negotiate some agreement with the other driver. It is a good job that the other driver and JC do not speak the same language and Kevin is there to provide a censored translation of JCs interpretation of events.
We achieve a couple of hours driving before lunch, but there is another stand still when we get started again. We always seem to be on the wrong side of the road because the traffic going the opposite way always seems to be free flowing.
After three hours, we finally move which causes cheering on the truck. It doesn’t last long, and we find ourselves at another stand still in a tunnel. This pattern repeats itself into the night. This is the strangest and most frustrating traffic jam I have been in. It seems that roadworks that cause hundreds of kilometres are just accepted with a shrug, the Chinese truckers taking it all in stride.
Tonight there is no appetite for another truck party.
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