WOMEN BECOMING TRUCK DRIVERS IN RECORD NUMBERS

With the pandemic wearing tons of people out, especially mothers and women in the healthcare profession, many of them are turning to the truck driving industry as a break from the grueling day-to-day of their previous professional lives. For example, Chelsea Ferguson was feeling burned out as “she was doing strenuous work cleaning patients and turning them over.  She was on her feet some days for 16 hours.” As a result, Chelsea turned to the trucking industry, as have many other women, making females in the trucker workforce at 18%, an all time high.  Read more..