This week: The Women in Trucking Association honors influential women; ANL aims to rehabilitate the Australian turtle population; and C.H. Robinson recognizes its top-quality carriers.
This week: Werner launches its cookbook, Women in Trucking offers ideas for safer training programs and UPS donates $1.25 million to advance underrepresented entrepreneurs.
This week: Workforce Heroes teach students about trucking careers, ‘Grow at XPO’ launches 100th location and WIT teams up with CarriersEdge for Diversity and Inclusion Index.
This week: Safety4Her goes from online retail to brick and mortar, WIT’s vice president joins the board of Wreath Across America and Shell Rotella SuperRigs is back in-person.
Ellen Voie founded the Women In Trucking Association in 2007, and it has come a long way since. It now has a separate charity foundation, which provides students seeking transportation-related careers with scholarships.
Peterbilt Motor Company has pledged at least $25,000 in support of the Women in Trucking Association (WIT), becoming the organization’s newest gold member and expanding the existing partnership between the two.
After years of advocacy in the industry, it seems the cultural shift may have finally reached a tipping point.
WIT Index which measures the percentage of women in the trucking industry has reported a marginal increase in the number from 7.13% in 2016 to 7.89% by the end of 2017.
