After 48 years of faithful service, man gives his truck a proper funeral and burial

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For most people, trucks are mere tools to be used and sold when they outlive their usefulness, but that’s not the case of Alcides Ravel. Although his old truck had been broken down for over four years and mechanics had told him that it was beyond fixing, he couldn’t bring himself to sell it to the scrapyard. Instead, he kept it safe from the elements in a shed on his farm, near the town of Barker, until he was finally ready to part with it. Three weeks ago, he buried his faithful companion on his land, a “small gesture” in honor of nearly five decades of service.

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Apart from helping him earn the money to buy his farm and support his family, the old Ford F-350 also served as a motel, more times than he cares to remember. Sometimes he would be on the road for over two weeks, pulling over when he got too tired, and sleeping in the car. These were hard times, but he could always rely on the truck.

So when the time came to part with the truck that had been there for him for almost 50 years, the only way he could do it was with a proper burial. Three men and a backhoe spent two days preparing the two-meter hole on Alcides’ farm. The car was then toed to the site and covered up in its grave. The emotional ties of the entire Ravel family to the faithful truck were so strong that Alcides’ wife couldn’t even attend the “funeral”.

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