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Ellen Voie is the founder and president of Women in Trucking. [1][2]She founded women in trucking to get more women into trucking. [2] She helped found Truckers Pride Day. [2] Before starting Women in Trucking, she was the traffic manager for a place that made steel. [2] Voie has written two books. One book is about marriage and family problems and the other is about what could happen in truck driving training.[2]
Early life[change | change source]
Voie grew up knowing that there were no jobs just for girls. [1]She took a shop class.[1] She learned how to make things with wood, welding, and shop work even though those were things for boys.[1] Her mom passed away in 1979.[1] She got a diploma in Traffic and Transportation Management from the LaSelle Extension University. [2]
Past Career[change | change source]
Voie was hired at a steel making plant in 1978 in the drafting department.[1] In 1979 she was transferred to the traffic department. She would bring the items needed to make steel to the plants and was in charge of hiring, firing, and managing the truck drivers. [1]
Current Career[change | change source]
Voie founded Women in Trucking when she was completing her pilot's license. She was in a group of female pilots and noticed there wasn’t a group like that for truckers. [1]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 contributor, Nicole Glenn (2022-05-27). "A conversation with Women in Trucking founder and CEO Ellen Voie". FreightWaves. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 womenintrucking.org. "Women In Trucking President & CEO Ellen Voie Bio". www.womenintrucking.org. Retrieved 2023-01-17.