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TRUCKERS´SHORTAGE * USA: Female presence
* Wiscosin - Shortage pushes trucking industry to accommodate woman as drivers
Milwaukee,WIS,USA -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/TRIV Live -June 28, 2014: ... Wisconsin-based advocacy group and a University of Wisconsin-Stout professor are working to make truck driving easier and more appealing for women... Their work has gotten the attention of Ryder System Inc., a $6.4 billion Miami company that leases tens of thousands of heavy trucks and runs a freight-carrying operation with a fleet of about 4,000 semitractors... And the quest to more comfortably accommodate women and smaller men occurs as the country's carriers experience a driver shortage that some believe will get worse... Ryder has embraced the issue. The firm says it has used the research of Kersten and Women in Trucking to identify female-friendly design changes and is encouraging manufacturers to consider them... Helping propel that initiative is a shortage of truck drivers, estimated by research firm FTR at 215,000 below normal staffing levels. That means there is no one at the wheel of about 2 to 3 percent of the country's semis, and 5 percent or more at some fleets... With women accounting for less than 6 percent of drivers, according to Voie, a greater female presence in the big rigs could help...
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