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Survey * Ireland - Shows shortage of women truckers
Dublin,Ireland -Fleet Transport -21 May 2007: -- Just 3% of Irish truck fleets a female truck driver, according to joint Fleet Transport and Michelin 'Transport Barometer', a monthly survey of top owners and managers in the Irish road transport industry... "The data shows that despite the small number of lady truckers, feedback from employers with female drivers is extremely positive, helping to debunk the myth that truck driving is a 'man's job," says Jarlath Sweeney, Editor of monthly commercial vehicle magazine Fleet Transport... This is despite hefty insurance premiums for drivers under the age of 25 and a lack of 'young blood' choosing to follow a career in road transport...
* UK - Getting women into the driving seat
UK -octopuscomms.net, by Sophie Orlando -21 May 2007: -- Clearstone, which says it is the UK's leading truck driver training and recruitment outfit says it won deal to offer subsidised truck driver training to women across the East Midlands, West Midlands and London. This is part of the 'Women & Work – Women intoo Transport' plan by Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council for the freight logistics industries. It aims to attract more women into truck driving as a career...
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