The auction started a Saturday morning.
I was drinking coffee with my father.
I didn't go there. I knew what was going on. I waited at home for the results.
You feel like a winner.
It grabs you by the gut when you think: 'It's me!'
Around 90 kilometres from Cannes,
in the little French village of Flassans-sur-Issole,
lies Jean-Pierre Ducournau's trucking company.
He bought his first truck in the 1970s.
Today, he runs the company together with his family.
I grew up with a neighbour who was a trucker.
So, I grew up in the business.
I've worked with truckers since I was 10-14 years old.
I helped them to unload the trucks and things like that
to earn some extra money.
This led to a passion.
For me, when it comes to passion...
You can be passionate about your occupation if you succeed.
If you're passionate without succeeding, it's not a real passion.
These photographs are 30 years old.
They're about 30 years old.
When I met him, he was an electrician.
He found his job boring.
There was no passion. He knew he could do something else.
One day he said: 'I'm going to quit my job and do something else.'
'What?' 'I'm going to drive trucks.'
'But I want my own company. I don't want to work for someone else.'
Being his own boss, he knew he could do what he wanted.
He is a free spirit, a free man.
I'm used to all these things. I'm an artist.
-It doesn't affect you at all? -Why, of course it does!
Today, Jean-Pierre's company, Transports Ducournau,
has 450 employees and 330 trucks,
which are almost exclusively Volvo trucks.
The first Volvo truck was a truck like this one.
An F89...with 330 horsepower.
In '73-'74, when I started driving Volvo trucks,
it was the only truck on the market
that was very reliable, very fast and very powerful.
Jean-Pierre bid the extraordinary sum of 150,000 euros for the new Volvo FH.
It was a charity auction, and all the money is donated to Star for Life,
a South African non-profit organisation
that aims to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in high schools.
Jean-Pierre, look at me.
It's quite a special auction.
We have bought happiness for others.