Here’s a kind of awesome way to get trucks off the road: put them inside trucks inside other trucks, like some kind of truck turducken. Turtrucken. It’s three, or four, or nine trucks for the carbon footprint of one!

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This picture came originally via Reddit, so there’s little context, other than that it was taken in England and there’s a relevant Simpsons reference:


But England would not win a recursive truck contest. It’s China, apparently, that has mastered the art of turtrucken:

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Four’s better than three, obviously:


It’s turtruckens all the way down:


Turtruckens mating:

This cannot be the most efficient way move trucks around — can it?