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In Business: Truckers: women behind the big wheel

In Business: Truckers: women behind the big wheel

FromThe World of Business


In Business: Truckers: women behind the big wheel

FromThe World of Business

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A global industry is facing a staffing crisis, with tens of thousands of new recruits needed across Europe and the United States - yet many people would never consider the job, or even believe it's a job they could do. Why? Because it's truck-driving - an industry with an image problem, where the work is still very much seen as men-only.



Could the solution to this staffing crisis lie in attracting more women to get behind the wheel? Caroline Bayley hits the road with some of the female drivers already heading up and down roads of the UK. She speaks to Pakistan's first and only female truck driver, and asks why aren't there more of them?



Producer Nina Robinson
Released:
Jan 12, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Insights into the business world - featuring content from BBC Radio 4's In Business programme, and also Global Business from the BBC World Service.