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Frito-Lay Female driver: Women's History Month Profile: Nancy Scott
In recognition of Women's History Month, the Women's Initiative Network (WIN) continues to celebrate "first" women across PepsiCo.
Nancy Scott earned the distinction in 1998 of becoming Frito-Lay's first female long-haul, tractor-trailer driver to achieve 1 million miles of accident-free driving.
Nancy's career with Frito-Lay began in August 1980 at the Chamblee, Ga., plant, where she worked in the Baken-ets department producing fried pork-rind snacks. In 1982, she became the only female tractor-trailer driver for the facility, transferring in 1988 to Perry, Ga., where she achieved her milestone.
Nancy currently boasts 25 years of safe driving, and expects to reach the 2-million-mile mark by the end of 2008.
In her spare moments, Nancy likes to spend time with Frito-Lay drivers, other friends and her cats. She also enjoys watching movies and playing video games.
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Last Stats Reported: 9/2007The ATA reports the truck driver shortage is real, and getting worse by the day
For those who think the shortage of truck drivers is overstated, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) has a new study, based on statistical analysis, that indicates the U.S. is currently short of 20,000 drivers. If current trends continue, the same report predicts that the shortage of long-haul, heavy-duty truck drivers in the U.S. could reach as high as 111,000 by the year 2014.
"The driver market is the tightest it has been in 20 years," says Bill Graves, president and CEO of the ATA. "It's a major limitation to the amount of freight that motor carriers can haul. It's critical that we find ways to tap a new labor pool, increase wages and recruit new people into the industry that keeps our national economy moving."
Of the 3.4 million truck drivers on the road, 1.3 million are long-haul truckers, the driver segment said to be the most severely impacted by the shortage. Although the ATA says the current driver shortage is 20,000 drivers, it seems even larger to the industry because of a high degree of driver "churning," or moving from carrier to carrier. Large truckload carriers reported an average annual turnover of 121% last year.
If current demographic trends continue, the supply of new long-haul heavy truck drivers will grow at an annual rate of just 1.6% in the next decade. But Global Insight, the economic consulting firm that conducted the study for ATA, predicts over the next 10 years, economic growth will generate a need for a 2.2% average annual increase in long-haul heavy truck drivers, or 320,000 jobs overall.
Another 219,000 must be found to replace drivers 55 and older who will retire in the next decade, putting total expansion and replacement hiring needs at 539,000 or an average of 54,000 new drivers per year for the next decade.
Scores of drivers exited the long-haul trucking industry after average weekly earnings fell 9% below average construction earnings in the 2000 recession. Driver wages have since failed to regain pre-2000 levels when they averaged 6% to 7% higher than construction wages. Long-haul drivers also cited extended periods away from home and unpredictable schedules as reasons for transitioning to other occupations.
At the same time, the industry is challenged with finding qualified drivers. Many trucking companies reject a high percentage of driver applicants because they lack qualifications. Those challenges escalated in recent years as the industry tightened its security and safety measures.
The driver shortage comes as the trucking industry is hauling more freight than ever. Total annual tonnage hauled by truck is expected to increase to 13 billion tons by 2016 from 9.8 billion tons in 2004.
"It's a favorable supply-demand market for us," Graves says. "But the ability to add truck capacity is based on the market's ability to find drivers. A tight driver market will keep capacity tight."
Finding drivers will grow more difficult in coming years, the ATA predicts, as adverse demographic trends limit the size of the pool of workers that traditionally fill truck driving jobs. For example, one-fifth of all heavy-duty truck drivers are aged 55 or older. Replacements must be found for nearly all of these because only a small fraction of heavy-duty truck drivers work past age 65. The ability to replace these drivers will be further constrained by insufficient growth of new entrants into the labor force, which is expected to decelerate after 2007 from a 1.4% annual pace to only 0.5% growth in 2014. More importantly, the number of men aged 35 to 54, which make up the primary driver demographic, will be flat or declining over the next 10 years.
To increase the nation's driver pool, the industry increasingly will need to draw upon a larger percentage of women and minorities. Women currently represent 5% of truck drivers. African Americans represent 11.7% of long-haul drivers and Hispanics 9.7% of the long-haul driving sector.
Source: www.logisticstoday.com
Leading the way for the next generation of women truck drivers, today's female trucker is overcoming the stigma that some people still place on women that are truck drivers, dispatchers, and even diesel mechanics. The future lady truck drivers will look back to their sisters that are on the big road today and smile with appreciation that they were among the first women professional truck drivers and pioneered the way for future women to be accepted as a trucker just like male drivers. Within the trucking industry the modern day women truckers have 'earned' their right to equality and deserve that right!! With an estimated 60,000 lady truck drivers on the road currently, women in trucking ARE a minority group.
On this site you will find trucking companies who value the abilities of women truck drivers. Don't expect to be treated differently than the male drivers. Nada! You will be treated as an equal! Treatment as an equal means equal pay, equal benefits and equal job performance expectations. And THAT is exactly how we ladies should and want to be treated! Whether or not you are a truck driver, TM, safety manager, owner operator or a diesel mechanic living in female skin, women who are in trucking for the companies I list, are paid and treated as well as the men. That is as it should be!
~Be safe out there Ladies! Marge~LTD Founder
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