For example, in this video which takes place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest nations in the world, a 404 mile (650 km) trip, which normally takes travelers in this region 4 days in decent conditions, ends up taking these Congolese travelers 1 month because the road conditions are so incredibly bad. To put this into perspective, a 404 mile trip would take me about 5-6 hours to complete given the road/traffic conditions here and my mode of transportation.
Their truck is overloaded with goods forcing some of the passengers, who pay large sums of money ($20 usd or 17 euros) to board the truck, to sit atop the mountainous pile of cargo. Others are forced to hang from the sides as the truck bounces around the massive water filled potholes. The potholes are so bad that a truck can be completely ruined after one to two trips like this. The truck has too much weight attached and could easily flip due to how top heavy it is. To add to all of this, most of the world’s poorest nations, which are based in Africa remain in a constant state of conflict and war so this makes for especially dangerous traveling conditions.