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JERRY REED: (As Cledus Snow) Welcome to the world's biggest game of chicken, boys.
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(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT")
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That's what's happening.ĭIAMOND: Truck drivers were, like, bandits of the road. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) I'm being shot at. You didn't even need a special big rig license.ĭIAMOND: I just felt bigger and better than anyone else because I could drive a truck. WARNER: Back then, you didn't need two months of driving school. Then she heard someone mention they needed a truck driver.ĭIAMOND: I said, hey, I can drive one of those. Brandie had recently lost her job in the kitchen of a restaurant near her home in Arizona. It was the mid-'80s, kind of the end of one trucking era and the start of another. WARNER: Brandie hadn't yet come out as trans when her trucking story begins, 25 years before Jess hit the road with her daughter. I'm a transgender truck driver, slash chef, slash Jill-of-all-trades (laughter). I'm Gregory Warner.ĭIAMOND: Hi, I'm Brandie Diamond.
WARNER: We're alone at work with ROUGH TRANSLATION.
Today, two stories of truckers transformed by that solitude in ways that neither expected.ĭIAMOND: All right. But imagine 10, 20, 30 years of being mostly by yourself. So many of us have changed by being more solitary in the pandemic. WARNER: Something a lot of us can recognize. GRAHAM: I can go days and days and days without calling anybody. WARNER: You're far from family and friend networks. GRAHAM: We tend to stick to ourselves and keep our heads down. WARNER: They told us the brotherhood of male truckers can push women to the margins.
MICHELLE: I can't stop 80,000 pounds because you decided to use the shoulder as a boy toilet. And that divide is particularly acute for women truckers. WARNER: And truckers will tell you about a trucker-civilian divide that they cross over. MICHELLE: And the dog that you hear barking is Caper. GRAHAM: My dinner tonight is gas station sushi. MICHELLE: Seven hundred twenty-six miles today. MICHELLE: I delivered in California, in the Redlands area. WARNER: President Biden has also made it part of his platform to increase the number of women in trucking. MICHELLE: Today is February 15 - Tuesday. They're expanding their recruitment to attract more women.īRANDIE DIAMOND: Hello to everybody out there. Trucking companies are facing a nationwide shortage of drivers.
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As part of our series about taking on different work selves, we asked women truckers to send us audio diaries. It's about as close as I could come to that, kind of breaking free from a situation that was not healthy mentally and stretching my legs and seeing what I'm made of. GRAHAM: It's similar to running away and joining the circus. For now this was going to be home for them. WARNER: She got her rollerblades and her Nintendo DS and a big backpack stuffed with schoolbooks.
And she's got all of her stuff in her little cubbies and sitting on her bed smiling. WARNER: The living space was 8 feet by 8 feet - two bunk beds. GRAHAM: I came in, packed her up and went to the school and told her that she is no longer enrolled and that she will be homeschooling. GRAHAM: No, that was exactly what it was. You're jumping out, and you're literally just bundling her up with some clothes and piling her in the truck.
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WARNER: In my mind - maybe it's a movie version, but you're pulling up in your truck. GRAHAM: Trucking is one of those industries that in very little time you can actually change your station in life. WARNER: It was only nine weeks earlier that Jess had signed up for trucking school. And I'm going to make my life what I'm going to make it. JESS GRAHAM: I'm going to go somewhere else. She left her abusive partner, took her 10-year-old daughter and hit the road in her new tractor trailer. It was the fall of 2010 when Jess Graham started to upend her life. You're listening to ROUGH TRANSLATION from NPR.
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