When I see an accident and someone dies...
Recently two trucks had an accident.
They crashed.
They crashed head-on.
The trucks went up in flames. Both drivers died.
Then you start to think, "It could have been me."
"That could have been my fate."
"So I continue being cautious after many years of driving."
I'll tell you about the road of Los Caracoles pass.
You drive straight ahead.
Then you start to go up...
The first, the second bend. This one is dangerous.
It is etched in my head and I know all the bends
because since 1978 I have been driving up here
and now it's 2015, and I know the road very well.
Here we start Curve 0 in the Los Caracoles pass.
Right?
We start to go up.
We are going up to 10,500 feet.
You must be very cautious and really sensible.
You can see it here for yourself.
That's dangerous driving.
Some trucks try to pass before the curve.
That's how many accidents happen.
You drive up comfortably, the truck is really powerful
and you know you are comfortable, safe
in comparison with some old trucks.
I carry a refrigerated trailer.
I carry fruit produced here in Chile or I carry bananas from Ecuador
and the trucks are basically our home.
Till when we go back to our real home.
More dangerous driving. You see it for yourselves.
He should not do that.
There we see a truck with problems.
The brakes are smoking. He braked hard and it's puffing smoke.
Slow down.
On this road, every year...
...there are some deaths.
I estimate that two or three people die every three or four months.
Seven or eight people die on this road in a year.
Both in Los Caracoles pass and here.
They are overconfident in their trucks.
They are overconfident in their new vehicles.
I'll tell you something that my father told me:
"The Andes range will always exist."
"Never aim to cross above it because you won't be able to."
"The Andes will always remain in the same place. You will die."
And with that, he finished.
It's sad but, well, that's it.
I remember his words more now because of my lost colleagues.
I carry the trucks in my heart because...
...this is the trade that my father taught me.
That's all I can say.