Our Purpose
To work with stakeholders to remove barriers and enhance training and employment opportunities for women seeking to establish careers as heavy vehicle drivers. To create safer roads by encouraging more women into heavy vehicle driving careers.
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Strategic Objectives
- Enhancing female awareness, interest and participation in the vocation of heavy vehicle driver (HVD)
- Exploring and dismantling barriers to ensure the full and equal participation of women in trucking
- Encouraging continued discussion around effective engagement strategies
- Connecting newly licensed female drivers with experienced female mentors
- Promoting dialogue and encouraging feedback around critical issues that affect female HVD’s
- Encouraging experienced female HVD’s to share their insights, personal journeys and lessons learned
- Advocating for all female HVD’s
- Working to balance HVD gender scales
- Conducting on-going research to monitor heavy vehicle driver gender ratios
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Women in Trucking Australia Ltd has been established by female truckies to support women interested in establishing heavy vehicle driving careers and those already working out where the rubber hits the road.
Broadly speaking WiTA aims to connect female heavy vehicle drivers nationally - creating strong support networks and advocating for REAL employment opportunities for ALL female truckies.
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