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DALLAS — Trucking provides women with career opportunities that allow them to chart successful paths, but consideration must be given to challenges they face, experts said at an industry conference.
Trucking provides women with career opportunities that allow them to chart successful paths, but consideration must be given to challenges they face, experts said at an industry conference.
During her 20-year career at UPS Inc., Miriam Arnero has worked her way up the ladder. She started out as a part-time loader and later became a driver. These days, she is a safety supervisor with responsibility for anywhere from 90 to 250 truck drivers.
Women underscore ongoing harassment, driver training problems in trucking
FMCSA's Women of Trucking Advisory Board is using data—as well as the firsthand experience of its 16 members—to make recommendations and discuss the next steps regarding harassment...
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Sexual harassment, assault, and even rape remain all-too-common occurrences that continue to plague women who work in trucking—particularly drivers. It’s a problem that weighs heavily on the minds of many women in the industry and one that dominated discussion during the inaugural meeting of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Women of Trucking Advisory Board on Nov. 9.
Board members, who represent a mix of trucking companies, nonprofit associations, independent owner-operators, and other trucking business associations, stressed the need for enforcement guidelines for commercial truck driver trainers and are calling on FMCSA to provide guidance for and hold motor carriers accountable for violence against women in trucking.