Most of those in the group drive tankers of petrol, diesel or kerosene to and from Maiduguri - the city at the heart of the Islamist insurgency in the north-east and the capital of Borno state.
Gathered at the Ogbere Trailer Park, about 50km (30 miles) north of Lagos, they say they have all been affected by the six-year conflict.
"We are all concerned about the situation, we have all lost relatives, wives and children are kidnapped and houses have been burnt," says Atiku Abubakar.
Speaking in Hausa, he and his colleagues describe the perils of the route to and from Lagos.
It takes two and a half days when a tanker is empty and four and a half days when full.
They say it is dangerous enough without the militants to contend with as there are so many potholes.
"Ten of my colleagues who ply this route have been killed in the last three weeks," says Mr Abubakar.
"The militants stopped them and cut off their heads with an electric chainsaw and burned the trucks," he says.
"Boko Haram is usually only interested in commandeering smaller vehicles, sometimes the fighters will take the lorries, but most of the time they burn them."

Another truck driver chips in to say that if a driver looks "powerful" he may be kidnapped and conscripted as a fighter, but anyone looking "weak" will definitely "lose his head".
"If you reach Damaturu by five in the afternoon, you dare not continue on the final leg to Maiduguri," he says, explaining that a driver may not manage the last 130km before the sun sets, when they would be most vulnerable to attack.
'Too traumatised'
The drivers tend to work for an owner who has about 20 tankers - each vehicle also has about two assistants to help with loading and guarding the cargo, known as motor boys.

As the drivers and motor boys ease into the conversation they begin to open up about how the insurgency has directly affected them.
Driver Trap Bukar says he was in the town of Bama when it was captured by Boko Haram last September.
"It started early in the morning. Suddenly they came. There was shooting, in my presence I saw four people go down; the soldiers fled," he says.
He lifts up his shirt to show what look like bullet scars on his upper torso
"I could tell you many unhappy tales," he says, with tears in his eyes.
But he suddenly gets up and leaves the group and his colleagues say he is too traumatised by his memories to continue.
Kullima Ali, 18, who has been a motor boy for four years, says he is now his family's only bread winner.

He says it is very difficult to tell the militants from soldiers, as they dress in camouflage - with only their eyes visible.
"They stole some food, killed my two brothers and burned our house in Maiduguri in January 2013," he says.
"There's only my mother and my sister now."
He says he had wanted to go and study science, but he is unable to afford to continue his education.
'Scared'
"Many of the drivers have good qualifications," says Umar Hussaini, 18, a motor boy who helps his driver brother.

He introduces me to Ibrahim Abdullahi, 25, a former university student who had been studying civil engineering at the start of insurgency.
He has been working as a trucker for the last five years as there are few other employment opportunities for young men, especially in the areas affected by the conflict.
"Yes I am scared, if there was other work I would find another job," says Mr Abdullahi.
All the truckers express anger about the six-week postponement of the 14 February presidential election and are vocal in their criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan's handling of the conflict.
Some even refer to him as "the chairman of Boko Haram" - seeing him as complicit in the group's growth over the years.
Others say his complicity lies in his neglect of north-east.
"President Jonathan is just as guilty as those Boko Haram killers because he has chopped off all the money to repair the roads," Mr Abubakar says.
Life is now a constant financial struggle for them, he adds.
For each trip, a driver gets a 10,000 naira ($50, £33) living allowance but this might have to last for several weeks as he waits at Ogbere Trailer Park for clearance to go into Lagos port to collect cargo.

Most of the truckers get a monthly salary of between $100 and $200 and the motor boys receive $2.50 a day.
Saleh Mohamed, a driver who has just arrived back from Lagos port with his shipment of petrol, sits down with the group under the porch looking exhausted.
"I spent four days in the queue in the traffic to the port - I haven't slept for four nights because I had to watch out for thieves as they remove parts from the vehicle or steal the gas," he says.
But he is only taking a short break of a couple of hours as he is anxious to put the coming dangers behind him.
"The killings are too much and have been going on for too long," says his colleague Mr Abubakar.
"President Jonathan is not doing anything. We hope he will leave - we want change."


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Ride on sir Jonathan
Inform us about truck pushers later please don't forget to do so.

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GOODLUCK TILL 2019

TI1919:
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Ride on sir Jonathan
Inform us about truck pushers later please don't forget to do so.

have your laff now..they ll have theirs on the election day and after..

I mean the result of the election will so shock and weaken you that you ll have no strength to log into your nairaland account..then, the well meaning Nigerians will be having the best of laffs.

Let me give you a clue as to how their(presidential aspirants) faces will look on hearing the results...

*And note that their supporters will surely mirror their(aspirant's) facial xpressions.*

When are they going to start holding their runaway northern leaders responsible for their century long atrocious misrule?

Thank you Sir for the threat I believe everyman is entitle to one vote mine goes to GEJ
Vote your choice sir, may God bless you

GOATandYAMtheory:
have your laff now..they ll have theirs on the election day and after..
I mean the result of the election will so shock and weaken you that you ll have no strength to log into your nairaland account..then, the well meaning Nigerians will be having the best of laffs.

To the average northerner,everything is politics.
Watch as they pile all the blame on GEJ and not one word of commendation for their brothers who have decided to be killing them.

Everest9:
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GOODLUCK TILL 2019

You are very heartless and selfish,People narrated their grief and you call it a SUPER STORY?we dont need an herbalist to tell us GEJ is the worst president ever,i can't just understand why he would allow the killings to go on for 6years and start acting now because of election,Bokoharam that Obasanjo crushed in just 2 weeks

bettercreature:
You are very heartless and selfish,People narrated their grief and you call it a SUPER STORY?we dont need an herbalist to tell us GEJ is the worst president ever,i can't just understand why he would allow the killings to go on for 6years and start acting now because of election,Bokoharam that Obasanjo crushed in just 2 weeks

Is it that you genuinely do not know the problem or you are simply playing confused.

No president wants war during his reign. Jonathan wanted peace in the north, he offered amnesty, it was refused, he sent soldiers to clear out boko haram, northern elders where singing genocide and playing politics with it. Even some elements within the military were revealing military secrets to boko haram thereby making the efforts of the army almost useless.

The verdict is that strong force from the north wanted the north to be on fire to prove a point. They have made their point that they can make the govt to look weak, but on the overall scheme of things, who loses.

Jonathan has said if he loss the election he will go home, will the dead Northerners come back to life after a northerner becomes president?

bettercreature:
You are very heartless and selfish,People narrated their grief and you call it a SUPER STORY?we dont need an herbalist to tell us GEJ is the worst president ever,i can't just understand why he would allow the killings to go on for 6years and start acting now because of election,Bokoharam that Obasanjo crushed in just 2 weeks

Funny Guy Obasanjo crushed them and they still exist abi (SUPER STORY EPISODE 10)