While the trucking industry has complained for years that there is a massive shortage of workers willing to drive the big rigs, some women are saying that “many trucking companies have made it effectively impossible for them to get those jobs.” Many trucking companies won’t hire women due to the fact that they don’t have women available to train them, and with fewer than 5 percent of truck drivers in the United States being women, there is an obvious dearth of female trainers. Same-sex training policies are common across the industry, despite the fact that “a federal judge ruled in 2014 that it was unlawful for a trucking company to require that female job candidates be paired only with female trainers.” Read more…