Nairobi, April 10 -- As the 22-wheel truck makes its way towards the Nakuru-Eldoret highway, assumptions are quickly shattered when it becomes evident that the one behind the wheel is not a man, which has long been the norm, but a woman - Nelly Chebichi Biwott, a long-distance.

Dressed in blue jeans, a white T-shirt, black rubber shoes, and a green reflector jacket, she pulls over near the Eveready roundabout in Nakuru City to grant an interview.

At the time, Chebichi, who has been driving trucks for the past six years, is ferrying goods from Emali town in Makueni County to Tororo, Uganda.

A resident of Turbo in Uasin Gishu County, she informs that she will be on the road for the next two days, employed by Kaburu Transporters Company. ...