WIT Index Studies Enhance in Feminine Technicians – Upkeep

In response to new knowledge from the 2023 WIT Index from the Girls In Trucking Affiliation, the proportion of feminine tools technicians in companies with for-hire or non-public fleets within the business freight transportation business has proven a considerable enhance.

The 2023 WIT Index exhibits that greater than 7% of technicians in corporations in transportation are girls. This quantity displays a rise of almost 4 proportion factors from the reported 3.7% of ladies in technician roles within the 2022 WIT Index.

Nonetheless, almost half of the respondents mentioned they make use of no girls technicians. One other 24% reported that between 1 and 4% of their technicians are girls. Then again, almost 10% of respondents mentioned their technician workforce was made up of at the very least 20% girls.

“A serious concern of the trucking business is the broadly reported scarcity {of professional} truck drivers, who play a significant function within the U.S. financial system by safely transporting the nation’s freight,” mentioned Jennifer Hedrick, president and chief government officer of WIT. “However drivers can not full that mission when their vans are within the store or damaged down on the facet of the street — whether or not it’s attributable to an issue with the engine aftertreatment system, {an electrical} subject, 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.”

Initiated in 2016, the WIT Index relies on reported statistics by corporations in transportation, together with for-hire trucking corporations, non-public fleets, transportation intermediaries, railroads, ocean carriers, tools producers, and know-how corporations.

Knowledge involving the 2023 WIT Index was confidentially gathered from January by means of April of 2023 from 350 collaborating corporations of assorted sizes working within the trucking business. Percentages are reported solely as combination totals of respondents slightly than by particular person firm.

In 2022, WIT expanded its assortment of the proportion of ladies to incorporate not solely technicians but in addition operations, human assets, and expertise administration. The WIT Index additionally identifies the proportion of ladies in management roles and skilled drivers within the business freight transportation business.