Evaluation of tricycle usage as a means of freight transportation in Minna

Abstract

The importance of moving cargo from the point of production to the point of demand cannot be overstated. Tricycles are now commonly used to move freight due to the shift of taxi services and issues affecting freight carriers in the hinterland. The goal of this investigation is to assess tricycle transportation in Minna. This study's specific goal is to discover the problems that tricycle operators in Minna encounter, to assess the physical state of the tricycle freight carrier and the effectiveness of the Minna tricycle operation. The authors gather information from 120 operators in Minna, the author used a convenience sampling in addition to in-depth interviews for this study. The study's findings, among other things, show that parking is the primary challenge faced by tricycle freight-carriers, with the majority (49) of respondents concluding that they were ignored by customers; 56 respondents agree that fuel prices are high and have a significant impact on the cost of transporting freights; 61 respondents agree that spare parts are costly and challenging to obtain; and There is a statistically significant relationship between the P and T1 because the calculated value (0.005) was lower than the significance level (0.005). The author concluded with a suggestion, among others, price regulation policy should be enacted by the government in other to control cost of spare-parts, fuel and other tricycle relating expenses in other to keep cost of freight transport at a minimal level, through regulation and cooperative enforcement, the government and tricycle unions should do everything possible to stop tricycle passenger carriers from working as freight carriers or mixing with other modes of transportation.