About

REAL Women in Trucking was created as a volunteer group to provide information resources for fellow drivers, prospective student truck drivers, trucking executives and the non-trucking community who are ill-informed about the reality of CDL training for student truck drivers.

Greed has driven the ongoing truck driver shortage which has created a system of abuse in the trucking industry.

This free informational website was intended for networking social media to raise awareness of violence against women entering trucking, to network disenfranchised persons seeking assistance to locate self-help tools so that they can overcome the obstacles in truck driver training and provide information to the public about issues being covered up by big trucking.

It currently under renovation to add features.

This site is funded privately, Donations to help build a greater reach are gratefully accepted.

Paid advertising, Sponsorship opportunities and Banner Exchanges are available under certain terms which include ethical business practices and a mission inline with helping Women , not intimidating them to remain silent.

Desiree Wood is the Founder of this Awareness Action Campaign.

She is a Divorced Mother of 2 grown Children, 6 Grandchildren who began writing about her experiences as a single female entering trucking in 2008 on the “Ask the Trucker” blog. The still unedited story was written using mostly a cellphone.

It is called “A Day in the Life of a Lady Trucker“. It became the basis of 4 Dan Rather Investigative reports into truck driver training.

View Now: “Queen of the Road” and “Mind Your Loan Business”

The theme of labor abuse went on to inspire an additional series of installments by Dan Rather on misuse of guest worker programs that affect American Jobs.

Most of these programs are available on You Tube, Blip TV and iTunes.

Desiree Wood primarily used Twitter to share her story and later began a personal blog called “Trucker Desiree” to provide raw insight of what was going on behind the scenes as attempts to intimidate her from telling her story began to unfold.

Currently, she uses You Tube to retell the story to a new audience of prospective CDL training candidates seeking answers before they enter truck driver training.

She also provides basic social media consulting services in addition to completing her degree in Global Business & Public Policy.

Ms. Wood has been quoted in the “Wall Street Journal, Appeared in a Workplace Bullying Documentary about the trucking industry , and she and her Dog @TruckinDogKarma appear in the Documentary about Twitter called “Twittamentary“.

She has spoken out in numerous magazine interviews, radio programs about how the trucking industry lures people into training situations which are unsafe, particularly for females.

Her other interests are history , activism to raise awareness of human trafficking and alternative energy. She proudly received an autographed book from Billionaire T. Boone Pickens her work on Twitter speaking out for energy independence.

While the primary focus of Desiree Wood in social media has been unsafe truck driver training, discrimination & violence against Women entering the trucking industry. She encourages others to understand that “One person CAN make a difference” and frequently reminds truck drivers to:

“STOP waiting for phony trucking organizations who are FALSE PROPHETS only seeking to Profit off the backs of little people they believe have no ability to be heard individually”.

Her wish is for more individuals to LEARN how to use social media for positive purposes.

Be Part of the Solution, Not Part of the Problem!

The art work for this site was done by Alex Raffi Editorial Cartoonist & Artist who also did Artwork for “Jason’s Law“.

The intent of “REAL Women in Trucking” is to show diversity because one of the biggest obstacles Women face is trying to control things that only lead to division. There are too many Women in the trucking industry trying to portray a false image and many of them are not now nor have ever been truck drivers themselves.

The Independent life of a Trucker might seem to eliminate that problem for our gender but we still have a long way to go and this is much of the reason Women seem to be lagging in the empowerment department.

You need to stand up first and then be counted.

This site is not just for Women, it is to help anyone seeking information because we care about others. There are Gay Truckers, Intersexed Truckers, Vegetarian Truckers, Cowboy Truckers, Christian Truckers, Pagan Truckers, and Hare Krishna Truckers, Politically Active Truckers, Computer Geek Truckers, and some who simply should NOT be out on the road for reasons of highway safety & personal safety to others.

This place and our Facebook “LIKE” page is a where we can communicate what is going on and help each other who wish to learn.

Are you ready to GET REAL?

You can find our Facebook FAN Page at “REAL Women Truckers”

If you would like more information OR would like a “Get Real” T-Shirt with our banner they are now available.

For more information, Contact:

Desiree Wood (760) 975-6868 or (760) 621-3325

TruckerDesiree@gmail.com

@TruckerDesiree  @WomenTruckers  @TruckinDogKarma

http://www.linkedin.com/in/truckerdesiree