GREEK LORRY DRIVERS COMPLAIN ABOUT MONEY, BUT LIFE BEHIND THE WHEEL CAN BE SWEET
September 1st, 2009
BY MAKKI MARSEILLES
A BEER commercial on Greek television depicts Dimitris, a lorry driver stopping to give a foreign young couple a lift. He offers them cheese and spinach pies and later in the lorry park café he treats everyone to a free beer earning a well-deserved cheer: Dimitris is a 'mythos', that is a legend - the brand name of the beer.
This is one side of the coin. A series of accidents on the dreadful Greek roads has adumbrated a bunch of tough, hard-working men who often bend the law at the expense of safety. The truth is somewhere in between. As in ...
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