* Western Australia - Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls a group from WA's region is busy training women to increase the number of female truck drivers nationally
-- It is largely thanks to truck drivers that anything arrives in many of Australia's remote outback communities... The industry is not for the fainthearted, with drivers working long hours, towing huge loads and often doing so in testing weather conditions... The overwhelming majority of road train drivers are men, but one group in Western Australia's Pilbara region is trying to even up the mix, with a new training program targeting women... The Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls (PHHG) is offering interested women 160 hours of free 'on the road' driver training... Road train driver and PHHG member, Lyndal Denny, said it was part of the group's commitment to increasing the number of women truck drivers nationally... Chair of PHHG, Heather Jones, has been driving trucks for more than 25 years. She said one of the largest impediments to women joining the industry was the attitudes of some in the human resources departments of major transport companies... Current trainee Candice, from Brisbane, applied for more than 2,500 truck driving jobs over 10 years, without success, before joining the program... The PHHG hopes to establish a training institute this year, which would allow them to increase their trainee numbers to between 80 and 100 women annually...
(Photo Credit: ABCFrom left to right: Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls Candice, Heather and Lyndal stand in front of Heather's training truck) - Pilbara, WA, Australia - Radio Australia, by Lucie Bell - 9 March 2015 Labels: truckers shortage, womens in trucking
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