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In Business: Truckers: Women behind the Big Wheel

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“I don’t feel like a woman anymore. If women have to do this job, they should forget that they are women"

10/12/2015

Truckers: Women behind the Big Wheel

BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Truckers: Women behind the Big Wheel

The trucking industry has a staffing shortage, but why aren't more women behind the wheel?

There is a staff shortage in the global trucking industry: could the answer be found in convincing more women to get behind the wheel? Caroline Bayley investigates.

A global industry is facing a staffing crisis, with tens of thousands of new recruits needed across Europe and the United States - yet many people would never consider the job, or even believe it's a job they could do. Why? Because it's truck-driving - an industry with an image problem, where the work is still very much seen as men-only.

Could the solution to this staffing crisis lie in attracting more women to get behind the wheel? Caroline Bayley hits the road with some of the female drivers already heading up and down roads of the UK. She speaks to Pakistan's first and only female truck driver, and asks why aren't there more of them?

Producer Nina Robinson.

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