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Oct 5, 2014

TRUCKERS SHORTAGE* USA: Woman in trucking

* Illinois - ‘We can’t haul’: Rebounding economy reveals shortage of truck drivers


(Photo by Kevin Bennett | BDN -Oct. 3, 2014: Duane Laybolt of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, fills in his log book while he awaits his next load at Dysart's Truck Stop in Hermon on Oct. 2, 20 -, at 6:15 a.m.) 
Chicago,ILL,USA -Reuter/Bango Daily News, by By Nick Carey -Oct. 03, 2014: -- As the U.S. economy strengthens, with consumer demand and housing starts rising, trucking companies are finding themselves scrambling to find drivers to bring goods to market... To combat the problem, trucking companies are offering incentives to lure truckers to fill vacant jobs. Some are picking up the cost of licensing and many offer signing bonuses... According to DAT Solutions, which provides data to the transport sector, the driver shortage helped push the rate per mile for freight shipped on long-term contracts up 8 percent for the year in August, to around $1.80 a mile. Rates in the spot market, where customers move freight at short notice, rose 14 percent to $1.92... Trucking companies often experience driver shortages as the economy heats up because drivers find construction and factory work that don’t require living on the road... 
* DC - To reverse driver shortage, trucking industry steers women to jobs

(Photo: Tasha Tarrell, a female trucker)
Washington,DC,USA -NPR, by NATE ROTT -October 02, 2014: -- The trucking industry is short about 30,000 drivers nationwide, says the American Trucking Associations. Women are joining the ranks to help fill the void... Traditionally, trucking has been an industry dominated by men. But increasingly, that's changing... The American Trucking Associations says it expects that shortage to surge more than 200,000 truckers in the next decade... The industry is increasingly looking at other demographics — particularly women — to close that gap... And numbers, because the most recent labor statistics show that just over 5 percent of the trucking workforce are women... Ellen Voie, president of Women in Trucking; a group that tries to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry; thinks it's a little higher than that, but not by much. And she say that it's in the industry's best interests to change that...

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Sep 1, 2014

WOMAN in TRUCKING * Australia: Mother truckers

* Western Australia - Women are carving out well-paid careers as long-haul truck drivers

(Photo: Tony McDonough - The Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls, Heather Jones, one of they, in the Western Australia) 
Pilbara,WA,Australia -ABC North West/The Sydney Morning Herald, by Julie Power -August 30, 2014: ... There are about 558,000 heavy-vehicle licence holders in Australia, and of those roughly 5 per cent are women. Up in the Pilbara, it is estimated that as many as 15 per cent are female, and many of those were trained by Jones in her Scania truck. Nearly single- handedly, Jones is dragging trucking into the 21st century. For more than 20 years, she has been lobbying against dangerous driving, sweet-talking companies into hiring newly trained female drivers, and visiting schools to educate children about trucking... The Pilbara Girls have an average age of 40. Some are older women - Jones' mother Connie is still driving at 70 - who would find it nearly impossible to get such well-paid work at their age elsewhere in the country. Most of the 30 women spend days on the road, sleeping in a swag or in their trucks; luxury is an occasional night in a cell-like "donga". These trucks represent economic freedom and independence to drivers like Rosalie Hann, who loves the miles and miles of "woop woop"... They also represent a thirst for adventure. Toni Ranum - who at 39 has also worked as a butcher, a crane operator and a rigger on the wharves - says she dreamed of becoming a truck driver when she was a little girl... Truck driving is one of Australia's most dangerous professions, with about 225 truck-related deaths each year. Heavy-vehicle drivers are responsible for about a third of these fatalities, but many truck-related accidents involve cars driving into trucks. Jones has been first on the scene at several fatal crashes, and she lives in fear of lightning strikes that routinely spark fires across the Pilbara that have trapped and killed other road-train drivers...
(Photo by Tony McDonough - Heather Jones, one of the Heavy Haulage Girls, Western Australia) 
Claims by the industry's peak body, the Australian Trucking Association, that women don't want to work in trucking, this exasperate Jones and Denny... To address a shortage of qualified drivers, the ATA wants to bring in foreign truckies on 457 temporary visas, which Jones and Denny say will only contribute to the number of fatal accidents... Jones says there is no shortage of licensed heavy-vehicle drivers, just a shortage of companies willing to train them. Since moving to Karratha in 2010, after her company went belly up when six customers defaulted on large accounts, Jones has trained 26 drivers, mostly women, for free... In a new book by Denny and Jones for women truckies, some of their tips are: don't advertise your presence at a truckstop by hanging your bright-coloured smalls on the front of the truck; don't hang a red towel on the bull bar - Denny was told this means the driver is "available"; avoid flirting on the two-way radio; wear professional hi-vis work clothing, as some male drivers may get the wrong impression if a female truck driver wears skimpy shorts. There will also be lots of hands-on stuff, like how women can use straps and smarts instead of brawn to change an 80-kilo truck tyre, or lift heavy items on and off the truck... Jones started campaigning for more women truck drivers, and for better facilities and more training, when she was home schooling her two young daughters on the road... It is 7.20pm when we finally reach Sandfire. The roadhouse is closed and dark. Nothing is open, other than the toilets, which we can only find using a torch... The roadhouse may be closed, but the staff are out the back frying up a steak on the barbecue. We wait until they are finished to cook some cheese and baked bean sandwiches in the fat they've left behind. Better than going to bed hungry...

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WOMAN in TRUCKING * USA

* North Dakota - Dickinson lady trucker trains drivers for oil field

Fargo,ND,USA -The Shale Plays Media/Bakken.com, by Mike Kop -27 Aug 2014: -- Drop your stereotype of a burly tough truck driver and meet a career truck driver now teaching the next generation of drivers. Petite, smiling, high-energy Teri Channell is not your typical trucker, and now she’s found her place in the classroom at Northern Industrial Training, LLC of Dickinson. Currently there is a shortage of 23,000 CDL licensed drivers in the United States and Channell along with other instructors in the country are looking to support the industries need for qualified workers. With more than two-million safe miles, the trucker instructor is putting a new crop of licensed drivers in to the Bakken oil field. The former owner-operator lived on the road, and now she’s settling down... Teri was born in Minot, moved about the United States, ended up in Georgia where she and her husband were team drivers. Now she’s passing on her life skills to students. Since she hired on with NIT at the end of last winter, she completed the NIT instructor training course in Alaska and has successfully put more than two dozen newly-licensed drivers behind the steering wheels of oil field trucks...

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Aug 26, 2014

WOMAN TRUCKER * USA: Award winner 2014

* Texas - Only woman trucker finalist wins Top Rookie of the Year award

(Photo from The Trucker, by APRILLE HANSON: Julie Matulle the winner) 
Dallas,TXS,USA -The Trucker, by Aprille Hanson -22 Aug 2014: -- Julie Matulle, the only woman finalist out of 10 truckers in the fourth annual Mike O’Connell Memorial Trucking’s Top Rookie award at the Great American Trucking Show here Friday had one goal – “First is do not cry,” she said to herself and to the crowd that gathered after she was announced as this year’s Top Rookie winner... Julie Matulle, 48, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, drives for H.O. Wolding Inc. and graduated from Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin. She drives a 2014 Freightliner Cascadia Evolution...

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Aug 19, 2014

WOMAN TRUCKERS * USA: Award nominated

* Wisconsin - Oshkosh woman a finalist for trucking's Top Rookie award

(Photo Courtesy of H.O. Wolding) 
 Amherst,WIS,USA -Northwestern Media, by Noell Dickmann -18 Aug 2014: -- An Oshkosh woman who drives truck for H.O. Wolding, is one of 10 finalists for the the Mike O'Connell Memorial Trucking's Top Rookie award. Julie Matulle, of Oshkosh, has already beat out 55 other rookie truck drivers who were nominated throughout the United States to make the top 10...  Matulle drives a 2014 Cascadia Evolution that she named Big Sally. In a typical week, she'll leave Sunday morning for the southeast region of the country, hauling paper out of the Fox Valley and bringing furniture back when she returns Friday night. She also hauls jars, taco shells and "anything that fits in my trailer," she said with a laugh... The award is given to rookie truck drivers who are nominated by their company and chosen by a panel of judges from motor carriers, training schools, suppliers and trade associations...The criteria used to determine the winner is their availability for loads, on-time delivery, highway safety performance and customer relations... In a male dominated industry — women make up less than 6 percent of truck drivers, according to the United States Department of Labor - she said being raised with the idea that she can be anything she wants to has contributed to her success...

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Apr 1, 2011

Women in the trucking industry * USA - NTSB chief hits the highway

Deb Hersman's road trip promotes women in trucking industry

(Photo by Array Kenny Kemp:  Deb Hersman, Chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, rides with UPS tractor-trailer driver Clarence Jenkins on the way to the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville, Ky., to raise awareness of women in the trucking industry. Hersman rode with four other drivers on the way to the event)

Charleston,W. VA, USA -The Charleston Gazzette, by Zac Taylor -March 31, 2011:  --  A national transportation official pulled up to the front steps of the West Virginia Capitol in a tractor-trailer Thursday to raise awareness about hundreds of thousands of women in the trucking industry...  Deb Hersman, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent U.S. government agency responsible for investigating civil transportation catastrophes, stopped in Charleston on the way to the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville Ky. There, she'll speak about issues that bar female truckers from entering the industry...  Hersman was getting to the event in tractor-trailers driven by truckers from five companies: UPS, Schneider, Con-way, US Xpress and Wal-Mart. Most of the drivers she rode with were women...

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Oct 10, 2009

WOMAN in TRUCKING * USA - Are you a minority?

In today's driving market, over 200,000 women make good livings as long-haul truck drivers and the numbers continue to grow


(Photo from tdcj.state.tx.us: lady truckers)

Spokane,WA,USA -The Spokesman Review, by JeanieS -October 8, 2009: ... However, just yesterday, we discussed at http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/ the fact that women are charged more for health insurance than men are, simply because we are, well, female... And that strikes me as discriminatory somehow...

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* by Dave Laird -October 9, 2009: -- I never would have dreamed as a youngster, driving a Peterbilt truck all over this nation, that I would ever see women driving trucks in large numbers. Granted, there were a few women that made good livings hauling freight for a living back in the 60's and 70's, but the predominate number of truck drivers were men. That was then; this is now... In today's driving market, over 200,000 women make good livings as long-haul truck drivers and the numbers continue to grow. There are a number of reasons why big interstate trucking companies are hiring women with experience to handle their big loads... As incredible as it might seem, experienced women drivers have fewer over-the-road accidents than men statistically... The numbers of independent owner-operators where husband and wife teams drive long haul together have steadily been growing over the last decade. According to several industry web sites, married couples seem to thrive in an industry known for health issues, such as heart attack and diabetes... At 20% of the total work force, women are still in the minority, and to some degree still have to endure sexual harassment from men in the workplace... About fifteen years ago I interviewed a single woman owner-operator carrying hot tubs for a New Mexico firm, who married young, had kids and when the kids and husband were grown and gone, got her CDL license and hit the road. As I watched her backing up her forty foot trailer into a serpentine, very confining space without scraping the paint, I knew she knew how to drive. It turned out she had been driving long-haul for over ten years. She never had had an accident... So I have an understanding perhaps of what our Police Chief was saying when she said she is a minority, as there aren't that many female police chiefs in big cities, just as there aren't that many women driving trucks down the Interstate...


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(Photo from makli.com: Ice road truckers Lisa Kelly)

by lewis -October 9, 2009 : -- My niece drove a long haul truck for several years, now she drives a truck that goes to the dairies picks up milk and then deliveries to carnation. She is paid very well. Nice looking young lady of 27 . And she makes more the 60 grand a year. I am proud of her. She seems to do very well in a mans world... Most industries normally dominated by men our now being unified by both sexes. Is it good for America I am not sure the problem now is who is home with the kids?………….No one!...

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Oct 27, 2007

* UK - Women and flexible working

Londson,UK -Road Transport -26 October 2007: -- Offering flexible working hours and the ability to work from home is not going to work in all aspects of transport. After all, drivers may struggle to change their hours because of delivery schedules and they can't really work from home. But for employers in clerical and administrative roles, working flexibly is a possibility. Speaking at the Skills for Logistics (SfL) and Freight Transport Association Women in Transport 2007 event, Ann Beynon, BT director of Wales, says flexibility can make a business better... And she should know: 75% of staff at BT work flexibly and as many men as women do so. However she admits it has meant a massive culture shift, because it only works when people are managed properly... As a result of flexible working practices BT has saved £70m in office costs £10m in fuel and transport costs and £5m as a result of more staff returning from maternity or parental leave (99% now do so)...

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Aug 24, 2007

* USA - Those Wonderful Women Truckers

Today, there are nearly 170,000 women truckers, making up 5% of all U.S. trucking jobs. By the end of 2007, that number is expected to attain 200,000

Puerto Rico,USA -blogging-luis55651.blogspot, by rose41768 (*) -August 22, 2007: -- Presently, there are about 8 million licensed CDL drivers in the United States. Approximately 4.5 million of these are active truck drivers. Professional truck driving, specifically over the road trucking, has always been noted as a field dominated by men. The rough and tough trucking life could only be handled by a real man . . . well, times are changing! ... Women in trucking actually goes back to 1929 when Lillie Elizabeth Drennan became the first women to receive the CDL license. Driving an old Chevrolet, she was a rugged lady who carried a loaded revolver with her on her trucking adventures. Born in 1897, she paved the way for women truckers up to her passing in 1974... Today, there are nearly 170,000 women truckers, making up 5% of all U.S. trucking jobs. By the end of 2007, that number is expected to attain 200,000. What motivates these women to leave the general work place? You will find that independence and the irrepressible challenge of truck driving jobs are the two most common motivations given. Another important reason is the wage-earning aspect. Truck driving averages 20-30% higher wages than jobs women usually enter into... (*) Aubrey Allen Smith is a veteran over the road driver with over 2 million safe miles and a former owner of several successful trucking companies...

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Aug 4, 2007

More womens * USA - Take the wheel in U.S. trucking industry

Des Plaines,Ill,USA -Reuters, by Nick Carey -Aug 3, 2007: -- For Carrie Walters and Linda Reynolds, becoming a truck driver was the fulfilment of a childhood dream... American women have been driving trucks since the late 1920s. In World War Two, thousands of women took to trucking as men were called up to fight. The number of women in the industry fell sharply after those men returned from war... But today Walters and Reynolds are part of a small but growing minority. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006 182,000 or 5.2 percent of the country's 3.5 million truck drivers and similar workers were women, up from 84,000 or 3.5 percent of 2.4 million in 1983... One reason for this is the U.S. trucking industry is suffering from a shortage of qualified drivers from their traditional core demographic of middle-aged white men...

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Mar 17, 2007

Award * USA - For a Women In Trucking Member

From Orlando Trucker's Conference
FL,USA -Layover -16 Mar 2007: -- Glenda Campbell may look like a grandma, but she's a grandma with a CDL who travels the country as an over the road truck driver... Because of her career accomplishments, Glenda was honored for being the "Orlando Woman Trucker of the Year" at the recent Orlando Trucker's Conference held at the Orange County Convention Center. The award was sponsored by Women In Trucking Association which encourages women to consider careers in the trucking industry...

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