Transit

Istok Jeza is a truckdriver. His life is divided between the European highways and his family in the Slovenian town Pagersko. Two days and nights each week is spent with his his wife Vlaska and their two sons, Benjamin and Vojklo. The rest of the week are he driving through Europe, from east and west, in his white MAN-truck. During those days the cabin is his bedroom, living room – and workplace.

His friends are his collegues, which he talks to through the crackly two ways radio. Occasionally they meet at trailer parks, to eat breakfast or dining together. In Pagersko, Benjamin, the youngest son, dreams of living the same life that his father Istok does. Everyone in the Jeza family says that they are happy and satisfied with their life. If that is despite – or thanks to – Istok’s trucker life remains unsaid.

Book:
Part of the book ”Berätta inte för någon”, 2007

Istok in his MAN truck somewhere in Europe

Transit

Istok and his son Benjamin at his home in Slovenia

Transit

The cabin is his bedroom, living room and workplace. He connect with his friends through the crunchy two ways radio

Transit

Istok in his MAN truck in the morning somewhere in Austria

Istok loading cargo in Rovijn in Croatia

Istok in his MAN truck somewhere in Europe

Some truckdrivers live on the road, having their entire life inside the truckcabin. But there are also those, which have a family waiting for them, somewhere in Europe, longing and wanting them to come home at the end of the week

To be a truckdriver you need to enjoy your own company. For many days in a row, you are on the road by yourself and the only connection with friends and family are on the telephone or on a two ways radio.

Istok and his wife Vlaska at his home in Slovenia

Many of the truck drivers get stranded, and won´t be able to come home to their families and home countries for many months.

Istok and his wife Vlaska at his home in Slovenia

Istok loading cargo in Trieste, Italia.