Drawn by the Salary, Women Flock to Trucking

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What has 18 wheels and 68% growth in women employees since 2010?

Last year, Rebekah Koon left her job as an assistant manager of a gas station in Fort Bragg, N.C., to train as a truck driver, inspired by watching her uncle hit the road as a long-haul trucker when she was growing up.

Ms. Koon, 28, is part of a new wave of women breaking...

 

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Independence...avoid morons? Win...Win!

Great...

AndrewYang ummmmm

Mr AndrewYang can you please explain why this is such a scary thing?

Protecting family ! Debt free

5 more years tops, millions of good jobs will be lost to automation, truckers will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back

Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya..

Love?

I wonder how many Jewish women are truck drivers?🤔

the same industry that will be driverless in a decade

Unfortunately for most of these long haulers ..... driverless trucks will be on our interstate highways in the near future & they’ll be looking for a different profession. 🚚🚛

Not salary! The freewheeling of the road! Eighteen wheels, Amarillo by morning! Get out of the city and roll on...

Trucking may pay well, but it comes with a payback price. Bad backs, lower leg issues, overweight issues, extremely bad eating habits and loss of family time. Lots of good people are truckers; I know a number of them and see what many years of driving has done to them. Thanks!

So why glamorize a job that still sucks? Women do not be fooled. The men that do hate it. Showers in truck stops. Always gone from home. For a dollar? Please.

Shame they won't have the work for much longer once autondriving trucks take their jobs. Unless people vote for Yang.

AndrewYang

Yang2020

Octomom’s baby stroller?

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The first day on the job has came as a shock to many dyslexic women with loose morals.

Go girls....

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