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Feminine Touch - USA - Women Truck Driving get it
Travel, good pay lure more women to professionCARLISLE, Pa.,USA -The Gannett News Service, by Raju Chebium -Sept 25, 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... These women represent the changing face of the American trucking industry. 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... 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... (Photo, by Gannett News Service: -- Toni Chandler, 44, has been a truck driver for CalArk International since December 1995. Chandler and her husband, who is her passenger, travel all over the country delivering dry goods)
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