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Global Business: Trucking Women Behind the Big Wheel

Pakistan’s first female truck driver

28/11/2015 GMT

Trucking Women Behind the Big Wheel

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Women truck drivers working in a male dominated industry

Women truckers, including Pakistan’s first female truck driver are facing cultural obstacles in a global male dominated industry.

There’s a global industry which is facing a major staffing crisis.  Some countries in Europe, the US and the UK need tens of thousands of new recruits to plug their acute employment shortages.  And yet half the people in the world don’t think it’s a job they can do.  Women are now being urged to think about joining an industry which suffers from a huge image problem as one of the few last bastions of male dominated workforces.  It’s the trucking industry and the BBC’s Caroline Bayley reports on some of the very few women truckers out there – including Pakistan’s very first and only female truck driver.   

(Photo: Shamim Akhtar, Pakistan’s first female truck driver)

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