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!

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:

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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?

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