This makes me irrationally angry. My husband has been a professional driver since 97 and takes great pride in it. He thinks there need to be more women in the industry because they are more detail oriented and safety conscious. Shit like this makes the industry look worse than many think it is (oh god the classist…

Totally real. You stay with a company for a year, and find out another company is hiring for 5 cents more per mile. You leave, go to that company, and after 10 months, find another company hiring for another few cents per mile and added per diem pay. But this company doesn’t get you the miles you need, so you find a…

Another would be to videotape all cabs (and bunk areas) during training periods. It’s really not hard to come up with 10-20 ideas that would significant reduce, if not eliminate this.

Having worked for male dominated companies for most of my career, this sort of thing happens way too often. It’s amazing how the men who do these things deny them and are convinced that the woman was asking that sort of treatment. The levels of delusion and assumption are staggering.