Few African manufacturers depend on trucking at the scale of Dangote Cement. In Nigeria, the company has effectively built a road-distribution system alongside its cement plants, with more than 5,000 trucks supplying depots and customers across the country. Obajana alone is described as being supported by 3,700 trucks. The scale says something important about the economics of African manufacturing. Where rail capacity is limited and customers are dispersed across a vast geography, the truck fleet becomes part of the production infrastructure itself. For Dangote, control of distribution is almost as consequential as control of the kilns. The company’s shift towards CNG adds another dimension. A fuel transition across a fleet measured in thousands of trucks has the potential to reshape operating cost, vehicle procurement and maintenance at a scale few African operators can match.