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Shrinking Ranks - USA - Men, women fill trucking industry's
Oshkosh,Wisconsin,USA -The Oshkosh Northwestern/Fox Valley Inc., by Arlen Boardman -Oct 22, 2006: -- As recently as the 1980s, a long-distance trucker still was considered a modern-day cowboy, the equivalent of the cowpuncher who spent lonely months in the 1800s on a cattle drive... He was most likely white, willing to forego the comforts of home for weeks at a time, and had gotten comfortable with motorized equipment as a farm boy... Then, as now, the trucking industry had drivers who made short-hauls, perhaps a day or two, but the trucker who captured the public's imagination was the tough character who could handle trouble-makers at truck stops and the discomfort of long, kidney-rattling drives in yesterday's rough-riding vehicles... That has changed in the last 10 years. Today, drivers come from a mixture of colors, sexes and backgrounds, and the creature comforts in truck tractors are a bit more like home... (Post-Crescent photo by Kirk Wagner - Wayne gerdts and his wife, Zella, of Hortonville, are part of a growing national trend of older couples entering the trucking industry. The two say they enjoy the schedule that allows them three weeks on and three weeks off driving for Schneider National Inc. )
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