New TV show focuses on female lorry drivers

Good news for those women who’ve always wanted to be a trucker because a group of determined women are aiming to make it big in the previously male-dominated profession of lorry driving.

Orion TV, a small television company based in Northumberland, has put together a show focusing on the lives of those two percent of women who work as lorryists.

The snappily titled ‘Mothertruckers’ follows the lives of three females as they drive their 44 tonne lorries whilst keeping femininity and family values intact.

Lucy Stubbs, one of the drivers featured, hoped that this documentary will show the profession in a whole new light.

“We’re hoping with us being on the telly it will encourage more women into the industry because there are only two percent of us out of the half a million truckers out there.

“We also wanted to highlight the issues for women truck drivers like the lack of facilities and the fact that some men can be funny about it.”

Mothertruckers airs on Channel 4, Thursdays at 10pm and will hopefully show that women are still better drivers, whatever the vehicle.

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