Over the last couple of days we have received alot of bashing on shosho media sababu ya ka-mtungi, and all we are trying to do is earn a living in this tough times.
We aint all bad, but I have always suspected that some truckers are giving the rest of us good ones (the likes of I, @Meria Mata and @Okwonkwo ) a bad name. i just did not realize how bad it was until a recent run to DRC.
Its a full 1550 kms run (one way), so unafika pale and you are tired as fuck so all you need is to dump your load, go grab a cold one ukisafisha mecho and maybe if you are lucky, safisha some other kutu.
All was going well until the part ya kujaribu kutoa kutu. this lass after drinking my hard earned cold ones, i tell her we move to third base, shait, she looks me straight in the eye and says bana taka.
Thought it was a joke so i ask why and without mincing her words she says, in drc accent, bana taka dreve ya treele ba kenya, bao banapenda bahali ba kujambia kuliko bahali ya pochopocho
Took me a while for me to internalize the insult and for it to sink in and then i realized we as truckers have to do something to clean up our image
Kamtungi we can forgive, HKM mpaka across the border is a whole different game. Just a quick one, hata wewe unavaa mayeboyebo ukiendesha truck ndo utoe kamtungi?
Once Safari ikianza the cabin is your home, may take 2 days or 2 months depending on distance, truckers wako mpaka na meko na masufuria bro so yeboyebo is no big deal