Here there is too much paperwork. There are plenty of diversions to occupy the drivers. The beer ads are mixed in with posters promoting Protector and Life Guard condoms. At the Leisure Pub, where a few cushioned chairs surround a coffee table and a bar, pub owner Hawa Batamuliza said she refuses to have sex without a condom - unless it is with somebody she can trust. People are willing to live with HIV in Malaba as a cost of doing business.
Trucks drive the local economy.
There is no industry other than transport. The clearing agents feed on them. The insurance companies feed on them. The people who sell food depend on them. The women in the bars need them.