Women entering trucking are at higher risk of meeting obstacles that hinder their success because this male dominated environment is lacking in accountability.
Posts Tagged ‘Women’
CRST Sex Harassment Case and Truck Driver Training 2012
Posted in Trucking, tagged "truck driver shortage", American Trucking Association, ATA, CDL Training, CRST Van Expedited, Ellen Voie, Harassment, Lady Truckers, Sexual Harassment, truckers, Trucking, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, War on Women, WIT, Women, Women in Trucking, Women Truckers on April 14, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Trucker Desiree ~ 2010 in review
Posted in @TruckerDesiree, tagged Freight, Transportation Logistics, Trucker Desiree, truckers, Trucking, Women, Wordpress on January 4, 2011 | 9 Comments »
If the blog of Trucker Desiree was a WOW! In freight terms here is the translation: The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 18,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, the blog of Trucker Desiree would have filled about 4 fully loaded ships.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it you TROLLS!
CRST
Posted in @TruckerDesiree, tagged Assault, Blog, CRST, DAC, Discrimination, Driver, EEOC, Female, Feminist, Harrassment, Iowa, Law, Legal, Lily Ledbetter, Logistics, News, Politics, Radio, Rape, safety, Sexual Harrasment, Talk, Transportation, Troublemaker, truckers, Trucking, Women on May 25, 2009 | 20 Comments »
CRST Sexual Harassment Case I am disturbed but glad at the same time that some women are coming forward to speak about what is happening in the trucking industry to female students. The 35 cases of sexual harrassment at CRST is just the tip of the iceberg but the tenacity to keep the [...]
Texas Bill HB 2932 and SB 1558
Posted in Texas Bill HB2932 & SB1558, tagged Austin, Change, Criminals, Dallas, Drugs, FBI, highways, Organizations, Police, Politics, Predators, Rape, safety, Security, Students, Texas, truckers, Trucking, Twitter, Violence, Women on April 21, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I’m using my Twitter personality for a number of issues but this is personal. I was a rape victim/survivor whatever you call it nowadays back in the eighties when I lived in Dallas. The crime was recently solved in December 2008 but the Statute of Limitations has run out to prosecute the career criminal who did this. He has never been identified as a sexual predator before.
A new bill is before the Texas Legislature would create an identifier for such persons to be entered into the computerized database. I support these bills and I’m telling my story to tell you why.
Why did I do it?
Posted in @TruckerDesiree, tagged government, Schools, Students, Trucking, Women on April 20, 2009 | 55 Comments »
I have been writing my Student Trucker Story on “Ask the Trucker” since October 2008. Although by October I was in a much different situation because I had moved from the “Team Division” into a Dedicated Solo Fleet beyond the ridiculously unsafe situations my company placed me in during my training. In this new division I [...]
