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Sep 3, 2014

WOMAN IN TRUCKING * South Africa

* South Africa - Women drive trucks to success

Matsapha,Manzini,Swaziland,SA -Business Report, by Lewis Simelane -August 31 2014: -- Women drivers plying the Durban to Swaziland route are getting high marks for performance and professionalism from their employers in the road freight industry... The first pioneering group of Swazi women truckers, placed behind the wheels of fuel tankers, have shown their reliability and ensured that more women will be found in the cabs of large, cross-border cargo-carrying trucks... The four of five women drivers who currently operate Unitrans 14-wheeled, 44 ton trucks carrying 40 000 litres of fuel to Durban – the fifth driver of the group is on maternity leave – all have homes, husbands and children. They manage 48 hour workweeks plus overtime along with their domestic lives... As professional drivers, they have also become adept at dealing with the erratic driving of private cars – “non-professional drivers” as the women call them – police, crime and other dangers, and even sex workers... Prostitutes who habituate border posts and truck stops resent them because they see in every woman driver one less man driver and thus fewer potential customers...

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