Do Women Make Good Truck Drivers?

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In my estimation, women are good at it and this is why.

Do women make good truck drivers?” I guess you should ask a lady trucker and while you’re at it, you may as well ask them another question, do women make good heavy equipment operators, pilots, or any other trade that once was dominated by men? And the answer is still a BIG YES

But you don’t have to go any further than look into any history book on the war years. Who do you think operated all the machinery in plants, making bullets for the war effort? Welding and assembling army tanks! Who do you think tested those airplanes that just come off the assembly line?

Housewife one day and more than capable of building machinery the next!

Would that be proof enough?

Times have changed today and you might hear this comment more often, “I can open my own door, thanks!”

One “lady” truck driver said, just because you have a penis, does not make you a better driver? Well, that says it bluntly enough, doesn’t it?

Another Lady Long hauler trucker commented;

Barbara from Hall Transport, Cambridge

Yes, we can! I am only 5 feet 1 in, and I have been over the road since 2010. When the recession hit and I lost my job like million other people, I changed careers to attend a truck driving school. I was the only person from my class to achieve the CDL at the first shot and with all endorsements. Seven years later, I got awarded as the safe driver for 1 million accident-free miles.

You see, women can be successful and happy in this trade!

As a previous fleet manager and truck mechanic, our fleet went to all different parts of North America, from the snow-covered Klondike to the panhandles of Florida.

There is no other way to describe all truck drivers than they have to love their job. They are away from their families for many days or weeks at a time. May I add, “without any fanfare?”

This one seasoned long-haul driver confessed many years ago that his wife did a remarkable job bringing up their three kids. That comment blindsided me for a second and caught me by surprise, but it shouldn’t have.

You see, back then, the company dispatchers would send the drivers here and then there and hopefully work the drivers back to their place of origin in a timely manner. The fella in question was gone weeks at a time; there was no complaint, it was part of his job description.

This same driver in question came in at 9 am after a two-week stint through the lower states. I’m looking forward to a quiet weekend with the wife and family, “well, good for you I said to him!”

5 pm that same day, who shows up, this driver says, I’m out of- here. That’s long enough with the family as he fired himself into his Big Truck.

Today It is somewhat a different story! Every long hauler wants to be home by nightfall, “but that’s why they are called long haulers.” “Because they can’t come home every night”

Being a high miler truck driver and traveling to different parts of the country is not all cracked up to be in the “famous and glory department.”

Those days of Smoky and the Bandit days are over.

But if this story is about women Truck drivers, they seem to have more patients; Long hauls don’t seem to bother these ladies as much. They do their job, and they do it well, and they seem to shut it off somehow.

So as a previous fleet manager, I have seen first-hand these ladies in action. I think patients are what makes them quite suitable for the job.

The mandatory safety circle check on their rig is a tedious but necessary job for all truck drivers. In most cases, no, that’s not right. In all cases that I’ve ever seen, women take safety quite seriously.

I don’t care what their motivation and reasoning are; my estimation Is, their nuclear powered and have nothing to prove. Most ladies do an outstanding job in every aspect of the trucking industry.

I followed this semi for miles, and I noticed something different about the driving. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but different, no less! The truck stayed between the lines ideally like a truck driven by a robot; the driver looked courteous to other vehicles, right on the money as far as the speed limit. Just something different!

I wasn’t grading this person, but as a retired fleet manager, and if I had to, I would have given that person/robot 10 out of 10. Finally, I sped up as I was passing the unit. I looked up at the driver through my sunroof; It was a lady driver. She must have spotted me behind her for all those miles and given me a big smile and wave. 10 out of 10 “that’s what I would have given her”

Dan A Long-haul driver (US-based) since 2005, well over a million safe miles.

Just today, I’ve watched no less than five female truck drivers wrangle fully loaded semis around our cramped little yard, and do so with great skill.

My dispatcher, Debra, drove for over 40 years. She’s so well known (and loved!) at the company that they actually put her picture, eight feet high, on one of our trailers. Five million miles without an accident!

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why women can’t drive a truck for a living. Indeed, in my experience women are better drivers than men: I’ve trained young and old, male and female, black and white and every shade in between, gay and straight and who knows what, and the only differences in skill and ability are down to the individual. Insurance premiums bear this out too…women pay less for their insurance than men do because they’re just better drivers than guys.

David from Oakland Trucking North Dakoda

First, if you don’t know what blind side parking is, it’s when a truck has to back into a slot on the blind side of the trailer. A very difficult procedure until you get the hang of it, which many never do.

One morning about 2 AM, my driving partner and I were sitting in a warehouse lot being unloaded. It a was particularly hard park job even from the “good side” with a day cab. As we sat there talking a KW 9000 with the big sleeper came in from the wrong side. The co-driver got out and took the paperwork in, and while we waited for him to return. We made bets as to how many times the driver would “Pull up” before he gave up and drove around the block to approach the door from the right side. To our amazement, the driver blindsided it perfectly into the hole on the first try.

Then the driver got out, and again we were amazed. She was a little Asian woman no more than 25. My partner and I got out to congratulate her and found out the co-driver was her father and had made him learn how to do that before he’d let her even get her CDL. In 15 years of driving, I never saw a better maneuver.

Do women make good truck drivers?

Well I know for a fact they’re not nuclear-powered, I think! But I would say yes to the truck-driving abilities!

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