Sl Bricks

Sl Bricks is situated in Palanpur Taluka, right near the Ahmedabad Highway. It’s a good spot because of all the transport that goes by. We spend our days out in the yard, surrounded by rows and rows of bricks. It’s not a complicated setup. We have the area where the bricks come in and the area where we load them onto the trucks to go to different sites. Most of the time, it’s just the sound of the highway and the clinking of bricks being moved. We’ve been here for a good few years now. The sun can be quite strong out here, so we wear hats and try to find some shade when we can. It’s a very physical job. My hands are rough and calloused from handling the bricks all day long. We don't have a fancy office or a big team of people in suits. It’s just us and the work. Sometimes we have to deal with the mud when the rains come, which makes everything twice as heavy and twice as messy. We just get on with it, though. People drive in from the highway when they see the piles of bricks from the road. We don't do any big advertising or brochures. We just stay here and keep the yard running. It’s a simple life, focused on getting the orders out and keeping the stacks full. We’ve seen a lot of changes on the highway over the years, but our yard stays pretty much the same.