Before most of the products that we use are finally made available at the local shops and supermarkets, there's a Kenyan truck driver who moved the wheat from the farm to where it is produced and finally distributed.

Truck drivers indirectly play a very significant role in all our lives. And although a lot has been said about Kenyan truck drivers, there's more that is left to the imagination.

I caught up with two truck drivers who opened up to me about their life on the highway and what they to through - the good and the bad.

Last Saturday I was offered a ride to the infamous Salgaa Stopover in an 18-wheel truck that was heading to Kampala in Uganda. Our journey started at Mlolongo at around 6:30 p.m., driving at an average speed of 50Kph. All traffic considered, we should have arrived at Salgaa by half past midnight.

As we drove through the Nairobi traffic, Gilbert (the driver) tells me that most accidents are usually avoidable since a number of the are caused by fatigue and carelessness by drivers who sometimes "free-wheel" their trucks on slopes to conserve petrol after siphoning it. "And this is why Salgaa is a black spot for accidents because many drivers do this a lot."

A few hours into the long drive, the unthinkable happened when our truck stalled in the middle of the Nakuru-Nairobi highway during to "engine issues," according to the driver. It was about 10:17pm. We were in the middle of no-where; darkness on all sides and that terrified me.

Gilbert however re-assured me that it was safe and that considering what he had gone through in his year's as a driver, this incident was nothing. Unfortunately on that day, my trip to Salgaa ended there. I opted to look for transport back to Nairobi instead of risking a journey in a faulty truck.

The next day I went back to Mlolongo where I met 37-year-old Hamisi who has been driving trucks from Mombasa to Uganda for more than 10 years, but recently quit to open up a business in the fast growing town.

After what I went through the previous night, at least I had an idea of some of the worst things about truck driving, but Hamisi has more to tell us.

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