Overloaded

I am still struggling with a bug and didn't feel like the drive to work in the early hours of the morning. On the way in I saw this pick-up or bakkie as they call it in South Africa struggle on the road. It was overloaded and bulging at the seams with labourers. There must have been about fifteen labourers jammed into that bin. The back wheels were touching the wheel arches. Twice I witnessed the bakkie fail to stop in time and had to swerve to the side to stop colliding into a vehicle in front of it. One traffic police car drove right past it and it was not pulled over. I just stayed well clear of it as the week was still young.