The trucking industry struggle to get enough drivers is reaching a crisis point, but one project, which is getting women behind the wheel in trucks, is making a difference. The Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls helps women keen to get into the industry job-ready by giving them extensive experience and real world training in the fine art of truck driving.
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The Trucking Life in the Pilbara
Here’s a video about the trucking life in the Pilbara for Heather Jones and her family, who all work as truckies in the remote North West.
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The Poo Carters of WA
Here is a video talking about the life of the poo carters of WA, but also highlighting effort to increase the number of women working in the trucking industry.
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We Need More Than Talk
As an industry we need more than talk when it comes to developing training and accreditation to bring more people into the trucking industry and save it from the generational crunch which is coming. It’s not as if this is a new problem, it has been coming a long time and there has been a lot of talk for a lot of time. Now is the time for action.
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The Right Kind of Training
The whole issue of getting the right kind of training is starting to take on some momentum. One of the pioneers of getting it right and producing truly professional drivers is Heather Jones who leads the
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Everything is on a Big Scale in the Pilbara
Everything is on a big scale in the Pilbara for the Pilbara Heavy Haulage Girls, the distances involved are huge and the tonnages needing to be moved are enormous. Even though much of the iron ore arrives
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Driver Training Initiative Out of Western Australia
The driver training initiative out of Western Australian, led by, campaigner, Heather Jones is starting to get some real traction, including two trucks from the Volvo Group, Diesel News headed out to Karratha
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Trucking Struggling To Attract Women and Aboriginal Australians
Some time ago there was pressure on the Australian Workforce and Productivity Agency to include truck driving in the Consolidated Skilled Occupation List to enable transport companies to bring foreign
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