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The Women In Trucking Association Board of Directors has a goal to be a resource to the industry. Whether that means trucking companies, drivers, the government or our members, we want to provide you with the best information (tools) to reach your objectives in creating a more gender diverse workforce. In 2017 we teamed with…
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The email started innocently enough. The question from the CEO asked if the employee had a moment to “get a task done”. The sender asked the reader to purchase eight, eBay gift cards valued at $200 each for a total of $1,600. The employee was then asked to scratch off the silver lining and send…
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If you’re like many of us, you probably made at least one New Year’s resolution in January. According to TheQuint.com http://thequint.com, the most common new year’s resolution is to get in shape, or at least, to make an effort to work out. That’s probably why January is the top month for sales of exercise gear…
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Each year the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) asks drivers and carriers about their top concerns. As you can imagine, the comments from drivers differ from the trucking companies’ list, but some issues do affect both groups significantly. Detention and delays at customer facilities were one of the issues that were important to both groups.…
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Your 24 year old daughter calls you with the exciting news that she has completed her training and is ready to start her new career. She worked hard to earn her diploma and is anticipating her first business trip. Although she is eager to start her new job, she expresses her concern that her employer…
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Regan is a professional driver for YRCW. When she started working for the carrier, she identified as a male but has since transitioned into a female. She is one of the members of the gender diversity task force recently formed by the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) to better understand the needs of the LGBTQ…
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For those of us in the trucking industry, we are well aware that four-wheelers cause most crashes involving a commercial truck. It’s frustrating for all of us that student drivers to senior drivers are unaware of the blind spots, stopping distances and the massive weight of a tractor-trailer. Every time the Federal Motor Carrier Safety…
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I was recently reading a trade journal when I found an article titled “The Seven Percent.”* It was about the lack of women in the industry and how the numbers aren’t moving up fast enough. The article described the lack of women in the profession which the article deemed crucial. Although women accounted for nearly…
