A load of rubbish: A collector of recyclable waste in pushes along his enormous plastic bottle collection in Shanghai

Squashed family outing: A family squeezes under mounds of plastic bags that are nearly scraping the ground in Taiyuan

The images that were taken from across China, including cities such as Shanghai, Shouguang as-well-as rural Huai-an, show that fellow road-users have to be very weary of these heavy loaders - there could be disastrous cases of lost-loads and accidents clogging up the roads. could strike in the form of a giant lost-load.

Chinese photographer An Fu, 44, explained what it was like to witness real-life bulk carriers at their most laden.

'These carriers are dangerous,' said An.


'Sometimes they fall over into the road or the driver is stopped by the police because they're overloaded.'

'Drivers load their vehicles with so many goods because they need to carry as many goods as possible to save money and time.'

There have been several recent high profile accidents because of this overloading problem.

Last year, a Chinese driver whose truck was so heavy the bridge he drove on collapsed was sent the nearly £16m bill for the repair work.

The long and winding cargo: An motor tricycle negotiates a main road in Guiyang with coils of wound-up household materials

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