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Women Drivers - USA - More hit the road as truckers
Cherry Hill,NJ,USA -The Cherry Hill Courier Post, by RAJU CHEBIUM and MATT KATZ -Sept 17, 2006: -- 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... There were 129,000 women drivers in 1995 and 154,000 last year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Trucking Associations. Their numbers peaked at 183,000 during the post-Sept. 11, 2001, economic doldrums before falling back... The number of women is expected to climb as the trucking industry targets female retirees and empty-nesters as part of a strategy to fill thousands of driver vacancies. Millions of more trucks are expected on the nation's roads in the coming years because retailers rely on them to keep their shelves stocked as Americans buy more... Women no longer endure as many stares, or hear as many propositions or sexist comments, female truckers say. But they still feel the need to prove themselves to male drivers, especially since truck driving remains a male-dominated profession -- about 5 percent of the more than 3 million U.S. truck drivers are women... (Photo by AVI STEINHARDT/Courier-Post -- Lillian Santiago of Camden navigates an 18-wheeler at Smith & Solomon Commercial Driver Training in Cherry Hill)
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