{"id":238958,"date":"2026-07-18T06:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-economy-depends-on-commercial-trucks-but-who-pays-when-they-cause-harm\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:40:18","slug":"liberia-the-economy-depends-on-commercial-trucks-but-who-pays-when-they-cause-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-economy-depends-on-commercial-trucks-but-who-pays-when-they-cause-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The Economy Depends On Commercial Trucks but Who Pays When They Cause Harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Our economy is dependent upon huge hauler trucks to carry cargo through huge distances every day. It is these big haulers that help to carry most of our necessities such as food items, electrical appliances and many other things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">But the use of these haulers in carrying large amounts of cargo leads to some major issues in the field of safety. Any serious accidents with these haulers result in great physical damage as well as financial losses. While there is huge profit for logistics firms,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170656.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our economy is dependent upon huge hauler trucks to carry cargo through huge distances every day. It is these big haulers that help to carry most of our necessities such as food items, electrical appliances and many other things. But the use of these haulers in carrying large amounts of cargo leads to some major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8574,25933,5762,29175,4712,1107,257,7223,254,7970],"class_list":["post-238958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commercial","tag-depends","tag-economy","tag-harm","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}