Pakistan’s ‘truck art’ is now quite a well-known ‘genre’ around the world. For long, it has been an homegrown art-form in South Asia, especially in Pakistan, where the whole idea of decorating trucks (also, lorries and even rickshaws) with complex floral patterns and poetic calligraphy, has evolved in the most radiant and innovative manner.    Many trucks and buses are highly customized and decorated by their owners. External truck decoration can cost thousands of dollars.The decoration often contains elements that remind the truck drivers of home, since they may be away from home for months at a time.The art is a mode of expression for the truck drivers.Decoration may include structural changes, paintings, calligraphy and ornamental-decor like mirror work on the front and back of vehicles and wooden carvings on the truck doors. Depictions of various historical scenes and poetic verses are also common.Outfitting is often completed at a coach workshop.Chains and pendants often dangle off the front bumper.