Extra ladies be part of trucking business as technicians
The information comes because the trucking business celebrates Nationwide Technician Appreciation Week (NTAW) this week, an occasion sponsored by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and its Expertise & Upkeep Council (TMC).
In keeping with the WIT Index, greater than 7% of technicians working for firms with for-hire or non-public fleets are ladies, up from lower than 4% in 2022. The determine is rising alongside the variety of skilled ladies drivers within the business, which reached 12% this 12 months.
“A serious concern of the trucking business is the extensively reported scarcity {of professional} truck drivers, who play an important function within the U.S. economic system by safely transporting the nation’s freight,” Jennifer Hedrick, WIT’s president and chief government officer, stated in a press release asserting the survey’s findings. “However drivers can’t full that mission when their vehicles are within the store or damaged down on the facet of the street—whether or not it’s brought on by an issue with the engine aftertreatment system, {an electrical} concern, or an issue with the truck’s brakes. That’s when it turns into abundantly clear that expert truck upkeep technicians are indispensable in retaining skilled drivers productive, on the street, and delivering on-time.”
Launched this previous summer time, the WIT Index additionally confirmed that almost 44% of dispatchers are ladies; about 32% of girls are in C-Suite or government positions; 37% are in supervisory management roles; and 28% serve on boards of administrators.
The 2023 WIT Index surveyed professionals from 350 corporations of assorted sizes working within the trucking business.
Nationwide Technician Appreciation Week follows TMC’s Fall Assembly and Nationwide Technician Expertise Competitors in Cleveland, and is designed to “have fun the exhausting work and dedication of the skilled technicians of the trucking business.”
