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In BusinessTruckers: Women behind the Big WheelWomen taking on the trucking world

One of remaining few male dominated industries

  • Pakistan’s first and only female truck driver, 53 year old Shamim Akhtar, became one out of necessity
  • When Shamim first learned to drive she realised she was good at it and wanted to improve
  • “I have never faced any big problems driving trucks"
  • "My son worries about where I will be sleeping at night so he insists that I should only do this job during the daytime.”
  • “I don’t feel like a woman anymore. If women have to do this job, they should forget that they are women"
  • There is a serious shortage of drivers in the UK, across Mainland Europe and in the United States.
  • Natalie Tipton in the cab of her truck
  • Jenny Tipping from Southampton works nights driving her articulated truck across the UK

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