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TRUCKER'S STORY * USA - 'In a man's world'
Chattanooga,TN,USA -The Chattanooga Times Free Press, by Joan Garrett -July 29, 2008: -- Cast against the row of looming 18-wheelers, Sheila Stanford appeared a diminutive grandmother... At 64 years old, her hair was gray and white. She wore a pressed polo shirt and the type of tinted, rhinestone-studded glasses that snowbirds don in Florida retirement communities... As she walked into the Tennessee truck stop, men and families stared... “When a female steps out of the truck they say, ‘My God, I can’t believe she’s doing that,’” said Ms. Stanford, a driver for Chattanooga-based Covenant Transport... Like many in the small sorority of female truckers, Ms. Stanford looked to find a new and independent life on the road. A truck-school teacher who often ate at a restaurant Ms. Stanford owned in Jacksonville, Fla., introduced her to the idea eight years ago. The teacher told her she was the type of woman who could make the most of life on the road... (Photo by Gillian Bolsover - Sheila Stanford stands in front of her truck at Covenant Transport headquarters. Ms. Stanford has been driving trucks for eight years)Labels: truckers' stories
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