Walmart's $115,000 starting pay draws women to trucking amid industry shortage [Los Angeles Times (CA)]
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Higher pay and improved conditions have attracted more women to Walmart's fleet, with female drivers now representing 18%—nearly double the trucking industry average. The efforts come as the trucking industry faces a demographic crisis, with driver shortages costing freight companies roughly $100 million per week in losses. The bright blue and yellow Walmart logo pops against the rugged Chugach Mountains as one of the retailer's 53-foot trucks winds along Alaska's curving route 1. The rig is nearing the end of Walmart's longest, most beautiful trucking route — and its most dangerous. It takes about five days to complete the 5,000 mile round-trip drive from Washington to Alaska, with two drivers trading off shifts at the wheel around the clock. On a recent run, those drivers are Leslie Scott, 58, and Michelle Salikie, 69 — an unlikely duo in a country where fewer than one in 10 commercial truck drivers are women. People, Scott says, “are shocked when they see women up here. Espe
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