There comes a point where you just unload the cargo of the truck into the boats and then load the cargo on to a cart at the boats' destination....but that involves thinking it through and planning ahead. EROEI.
Phone call leading up to this event: Truck driver: how much to transport a truckload of pumpkins down river? Riverboat man: 1 boat $50 Truck driver: I apologize, I meant the WHOLE truck WITH the pumpkins Riverboat man: 2 boats $100 Truck driver: does that include the loading boards? Riverboat man: yes Truck driver: have you done this before? Riverboat man: if I have never done this, then how could I already have the loading boards? Truck driver: I’ll be there in 10 minutes *Click*
There are follow up videos, where this experiment succeeded and they explain that it was the way they transported in the old days tractors in a double boat on the water.
Seems like a small light weight vehicle like that would disassemble and reassemble into handle able pieces, like an old military Jeep, to make it easier to transport.
Pretty sure that is the most hair-brained thing I have ever witnessed. Guess I live in a first-world country, where these type of risks are not necessary, due to the plenitude of options and better suited equipment. Hats off, to these guys, who successfully accomplished the loading of the truck though. I give them credit for that. Now, whether or not they later encountered a wake from a passing boat, which sent the truck, produce, barges, and people to the bottom of the river ... I have no idea.
