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On March 22, 2013, Sandi Talbott, Co-Founder of the “REAL Women in Trucking” and the “Women Truckers Network” and her good friend Mr. Jimmy Ardis met with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Administrator Anne Ferro at the Mid-America Truck Show (MATS) in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Jimmy Ardis is a one-armed truck driver from South [...]
Sarah has just completed her first year in trucking. She has joined us frequently over the past few months on the “Women Truckers Network” free conference events and she has been a guest on our blog talk radio program. The “On-Demand” episode is called “Qualified CDL Training?” and it gave a glimpse on how CDL [...]
US Foods is one of America’s top 10 largest private companies and an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to promoting diversity of thought, ideas, perspectives and people. They currently have driver positions available across their national footprint of 64 locations. US Foods, encourages qualified CDL holders of both genders to learn more about their driver opportunities [...]
We are honored to welcome US Foods as a supporting sponsor of the “Women Truckers Network” a feature of the “Real Women Truckers” on Facebook and the “REAL Women in Trucking” blog. The lack of internal female mentoring and network opportunities is a contributor to the loss of qualified Women in many vocations. Technology has [...]
Truck driver training is an industry to make a profit off people who know nothing about trucking. The target, those who can get a guaranteed student loan, qualify for financing with as much cash down as possible, or acquire some sort of government assistance work program like a workforce investment act voucher (WIA). Suitability for [...]
A Trucker and Author Wife Pen His Tales of the Big Rigs…for Little Ones A 30-year school teacher who went on to a six-figure salary as realtor, gave it all up to write the series highlighting the adventures of her long-haul trucker husband, as he moved households across America, for 3 decades. “Grandpa and the [...]
One of the new features of “REAL Women in Trucking” is “Pay it Forward” self-help advice proposed as a vision to help others back in 2009. The difficulty has always been time and resources to connect working Women truck drivers to help females who wish to move on into better trucking jobs and help those [...]
Today we celebrate a milestone for Women Truckers with the launch of the “Women Truckers Network” (WTN). After 5 years of patient waiting for organizations to deliver something significant, the female driving population has become weary from the delays. Real working truck drivers have limited time to attend conventions and networking events but a growing number [...]
Truck driver training remains a crapshoot to produce quality in 2012. Good trainers are hard to come by, students are misled into the industry and carriers continue the practice of spending good money on easily misinterpreted ad campaigns rather than increasing driver pay. As a prospective student who has the desire to succeed in trucking [...]
