The Rocky Road That BodaBoda Drivers Experience in Delivering Transport Service in Tanzania: Empirical Evidence from Morogoro Municipal

Jaraj Kikula; Robert Makorere

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The Rocky Road That BodaBoda Drivers Experience in Delivering Transport Service in Tanzania: Empirical Evidence from Morogoro Municipal

Jaraj Kikula, Robert Makorere

Published in International Journal of Sustainable Development Research (Volume 8, Issue 2)

Received: 9 May 2022 Accepted: 7 June 2022 Published: 27 June 2022

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This study explored the rocky road that faces bodaboda drivers in delivering transport services in Tanzania. The study employed a cross-sectional research design and convenience sampling method to obtain a sample size of 86 respondents. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics. The study findings show that bodaboda theft, passengers refusing to pay a fare, passengers refusing to wear helmets, poor road network, frequent road accidents, the unfair fine imposed by traffic police, lack training of in road safety, and stiff competition are among the major rocky road experience bodaboda drivers go through in the transport services delivery, hence affect business performance. The study concluded that bodaboda as taxis play an instrumental role in facilitating passengers’ movements in many parts of the country. The role of the bodaboda has a strong impact on many people’s lives, particularly in terms of instituting easy movement of people but more so bodaboda aid in transporting commodities from one place to another including carrying merchandise to the markets or from the market to others locations. This study recommends that the government should intervene specifically in improving the institutional environment to reduce rocky roads and risks of doing business in the bodaboda sub-sector. Also, the government should design a training curriculum oriented to bodaboda riders. If this recommendation is implemented, then improvement in the fresh vegetable sub-sector would ultimately be realized.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable Development Research (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijsdr.20220802.17
Page(s)	82-91
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Rocky Road, BodaBoda Drivers Experience, Transport Service Delivery

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Jaraj Kikula

Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, Mzumbe University, Morogoro, Tanzania
Robert Makorere

Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, School of Business, Mzumbe University, Morogoro, Tanzania

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