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Truckers: Women behind the Big Wheel

There is a staff shortage in the global trucking industry: could the answer be found in convincing more women to get behind the wheel? Caroline Bayley investigates.

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.

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30 minutes

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Sun 13 Dec 2015 21:30

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  • Thu 10 Dec 2015 20:30
  • Sun 13 Dec 2015 21:30

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