Male, female or indeterminate, provided you have the relevant number of arms and legs you can do the job.
Ahhh… Now here comes yet another discrimination issue.
I know of this one legged trucker…
ladybird48:
Its just a business idea I’m researching and need help with!
We already had someone here try to do this. Do a search for member ‘girlietrucker’. She was going to help girls working in MacDonalds or as barmaids get into a better paid job. Last i heard she went off to Canada. After she foolishly left a lot of fotos of herself half naked in the pubic domain on the internet i reckon she could have solved the RHA’s percieved driver shortage easily, never mind help women into the job!!!
Deepinvet:
Hi
Plenty of women use this site, some are even female!!!
Mike-C:
We already had someone here try to do this. Do a search for member ‘girlietrucker’. She was going to help girls working in MacDonalds or as barmaids get into a better paid job. Last i heard she went off to Canada. After she foolishly left a lot of fotos of herself half naked in the pubic domain on the internet i reckon she could have solved the RHA’s percieved driver shortage easily, never mind help women into the job!!!
I understand that someone saved them for regular future referencing, but I could be wrong !
Here we go again 
We all need help from time to time, whether experienced or not. It has even been known for some females to offer help to their male colleagues - shock horror! 
Drivers in the main will either offer help, regardless of gender, or agree to help if asked.
If they need their hands holding to the extent that you’re talking about, they’re in the wrong job.
Doesn’t matter a scrap whether male or female or a bit of both so long as you can do the job competently.
Please we don’t need any more positive discrimination ideas floating about, patronising to say the least, and the female drivers i’ve known have been more likely to just get on and do it and not winge interminably about everything under the sun whilst doing so, and as we are hearing are not taking too kindly to the suggestion anyway.
There may have been times gone by when the job needed strong men (not many up men to it now anyway), to be able to manoeuver the old trucks without power everything, and to handle the heavy handball loads.
Having said that my own sister has neen doing the job for over35 years now, ropes and sheets, tilts, continental, low/wide escorted,you name it, so don’t say that female drivers need special training otherwise i’ll get her on here, and blimey she knows some long words.
Lucy:
ladybird48:
This training is directed for women because they find it difficult to gain the nessessary experience to even get a job in the first place.
Like the friend I trained. The company wouldn.t even consider her without alot of campaigning from myself and her husband. But I offered to train her myself.Again I’m only loking at peoples responses which I find interesting!
And would fellas consider this type of training ■■
ALL newbies find it difficult to gain the experience needed. It’s not a female thing at all. A quick read of the newbies forum will tell you that. If one company says “no” you just have to keep knocking on doors and doing crap jobs until you get your time served - just like the lads.
It may have been different in that situation if you were known to the company and “campaigning” for a known quantity…But what would have been wrong with her getting her practice in elsewhere until the time came? What makes you think it was the fact that she was female that made it hard for her, as opposed to the fact that she was new? Was that made clear?
Positive discrimination will only serve to make it harder for women to be taken seriously and on a level with men, IMHO. I also firmly believe that the vast majority (although not all) of the so-called “discrimination” these days is entirely in the woman concerned’s own head. Sure, a few years ago it was different, and I, too, had to run the old gauntlet when I first started, but not now. It just isn’t that big a deal any more, seriously it isn’t.
It’s a tough industry, regardless of what’s between your legs. Either you cut it or you don’t. Lining the path with cotton wool for women will not help them in the long run - it’ll put them at a disadvantage when they finally do have to “go it alone” and stand up for themselves one day.
A driver is a driver. End of.
Couldn’t agree more 
ladybird48:
"How the hell do I get that in Here?/quote]Not just the girls that have that problem
thecoder0:
Lucy:
A driver is a driver. End of.Couldn’t agree more
Ditto 
Best man for the job say I.
And if the best man for the job happens to be a girlie, a transvestite, crossdresser, gay, part time gay, lesbian, or part time lesbian - then that’s all good too
I agree with those who say that gender isn’t an issue-- it really isn’t.
However, I do feel that there needs to be some form of positive discrimination, because the barriers that exist due to the staus quo won’t evaporate on their own. The choice was clear; do we accept the satus quo, or do we seek to change it? It seems that society has decided to change the status quo, so what’s wrong with giving a helping hand to the process of change? It seems perverse to me that on the one hand, any person (rightly) demands equal treatment and recognition, then comes down against the positive discrimination that seeks to redress the situation.
I’m involved with some training of persons coming into our industry. I’ve noticed that a significant number of middle-aged people are coming to us, either because they’ve brought up a family, or just fancy a change of career. Some of those people haven’t been in the wider (outdoor) world for some time, if at all. If a person’s comfort zone has been children and domestic duties for 20+ years, or they’ve worked in a factory for a similar length of time, then why do some of us have trouble accepting that these people have made choices in their lives?
If a person chose to raise a family, or work in a factory, and then try to come into our industry, shouldn’t we welcome them irrespective of their age or previous career? What difference does age or previous career make anyway? I’d say those things are just as irrelevant as gender, skin colour, religion, ■■■■■■■■■, marital status and lots of other things that some people raise as barriers.
I think it’s fair to say that some people need a bit more support and encouragement than others for a variety of reasons. Since good drivers aren’t born with their knowledge of the industry, isn’t it fair to say that people need various amounts of help and support, because not everybody is capable of learning at the same pace?
My question is: Do we need amateur statisticians trying to put these people in pigeon holes for their own political purposes 
Mothertrucker:
I know of this one legged trucker…
I never said what the relevant number of arms and legs should be…
There is so much ■■■■ talked about this topic its unreal. Lets look why the job is full of 50 plus white ,males? Because they are the only soft bas tards to do it!! Cab you imagine in your wildest dreams a single woman parent Somali woman wanting to do a container job? Me neither. Not that she wouldn’t be welcome,just that i’d be ■■■■■■ if any of them applied!!
Bring back girlie trucker, at least we knew where she was coming from. And she’s one of the few truckers i ever had a ■■■■■■ feeling over !! i
Go to North Wales there’s a twenty year old girl driving an eight wheel tipper on muckaway work. she is as good as any of the male drivers on the job.
jonmea:
Go to North Wales there’s a twenty year old girl driving an eight wheel tipper on muckaway work. she is as good as any of the male drivers on the job.
ladybird48:
Its just a business idea I’m researching and need help with!!
If your business is going to be targeted at such a small part(female drivers) of a large potential market (all drivers) then you would need to be very, VERY good, tailored to specific needs not, as you seem to be, too general and have some clients who don’t have any in house training or development. Personally I’ve only pulled boxes/reefers and that suits me fine so why would I need to know about curtain siders, flats, tilts, roping and sheeting etc, etc. If I move jobs and the next company won’t train me to the standard they expect having gone through interview, assessment then I’m not likely to accept an offer am I?
Dons Flameproof suit
With the amount of whinging that goes on by drivers I am getting more and more certain that this job is dominated by women
Removes flameproof suit
Aslong as you can do the job does it matter whether you stand up or sit down to urinate
Mike-C:
ladybird48:
Its just a business idea I’m researching and need help with!We already had someone here try to do this. Do a search for member ‘girlietrucker’. She was going to help girls working in MacDonalds or as barmaids get into a better paid job. Last i heard she went off to Canada. After she foolishly left a lot of fotos of herself half naked in the pubic domain on the internet i reckon she could have solved the RHA’s percieved driver shortage easily, never mind help women into the job!!!
So where might one find these photographs ■■?/
thecoder0:
Mike-C:
ladybird48:
Its just a business idea I’m researching and need help with!We already had someone here try to do this. Do a search for member ‘girlietrucker’. She was going to help girls working in MacDonalds or as barmaids get into a better paid job. Last i heard she went off to Canada. After she foolishly left a lot of fotos of herself half naked in the pubic domain on the internet i reckon she could have solved the RHA’s percieved driver shortage easily, never mind help women into the job!!!
So where might one find these photographs ■■?/
PM me your email address !!!
I suggested this may be a good idea to have an experienced lady teach us drivers on the job training.
However Mr’s Wheelnut is shaking her head and has given my supper to the dog 
Somerfield have had to scrap their ‘women to wheels’ campaign due to discrimination to men. Someone in head office must just sit there all day thinking these schemes up.
Rob K:
jonmea:
Go to North Wales there’s a twenty year old girl driving an eight wheel tipper on muckaway work. she is as good as any of the male drivers on the job.
Ive drove a 8wheel hino of all things, tippin muck, sand… u name it. Ive drove across europe, curtain sider and fridge work as well as megas. Now im a transport manager but i know I can do the same as any male driver apart from pee standing up haha. I think more women should take this up as a profession but it can be hard if you have a hubby or kids esp if your away for a couple of weeks at a time. I personally loved it. Ive no kids, just an EX husband and a cat