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Since the early Thirtiestrucking professionals have hewed reliably conservative, white and male. Of the more than 3. They are purposefully reaching out to millennials, people of color, lesbians and trans people, and other underrepresented groups in the industry.

More than one in four transgender people will lose at least one job due to workplace bias. For bodies often restricted and derided, the perpetual motion the job affords is meaningful.

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More than 63, truck driving jobs are available at any given time. Climbing up into the seat of her first big rig truck, author Anne Balay felt powerful instead of angry. With an abiding love of cars, she took a job as an auto mechanic.

To deal, companies are doing everything they can to expand their recruitment pool offering lucrative signing bonuses and other perks to new drivers. A lot of us are below the poverty line for ages.

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Companies are struggling to find and retain workers to meet the demand. With two small kids to look after, she needed steady employment. Semis tower menacingly above all other vehicles. The Women in Trucking Association reports that by the end of the first year, nearly 70 percent of newly recruited drivers leave the profession.

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I bought an extra pair of glasses just because I wanted an extra pair. LGBTQ truck drivers are not new to the profession, but their visibility and rising prominence within the industry is. She estimates that trans women, in particular, are a sizable minority, possibly up to three percent of all truck drivers.

LGBTQ workers face higher unemployment rates than non-queer workers. Even with a Ph. While stitching together adjunct gigs, Balay found herself broke. Two key trends are driving the diversification of the profession: personnel recruitment and retention challenges within the industry itself and limiting economic opportunities for working-class LGBTQ people.

In trucking, what you wear, what you sound like, how you present yourself — restrictive aesthetic elements in many jobs — are not barriers. It is harder for oppressive cultural norms to take hold of you if you are constantly evading their grasp. Where Gay men meet Gay truckers for fun and relationships.