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Feminine Touch - USA - Truck driving gets it
These women represent the changing face of the American trucking industry CARLISLE, Pa.,USA -USA Today/Gannett News Service, by Raju Chebium -9 Sept 2006: -- Seized by the all-American impulse to hit the open road, Jackie Walker quit her paramedic job and began driving 18-wheelers three years ago... Divorced and childless at age 69, Nancy Finley logs 10,000-12,000 miles a month driving across the United States and Canada... Toni Chandler began driving big rigs to earn more than the $7.50 an hour she was making as a security guard and to see the country on her employer's dime... The driver of that big rig on the interstate may not necessarily be a man. Women are increasingly getting behind the wheel of trucks small and large, from tractor-trailers that haul merchandise across North America to smaller delivery trucks on local roads... (Photo, by Heather Wines, Gannett News Service - Jackie Walker, 30, of York, Pa., has spent the last three years driving a truck for Schneider International in Carlisle, Pa. She first hauled loads from Texas to Maine to Florida, but now she drives shorter distances and return home every night, though she still puts in 14-hour days)
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