Long-haul driver talks about benefits, challenges of the job

She Drives Trucks Staff (TN)
Jan 24, 2017
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Virginia Clark, a driver for YRC Freight in Chicago Heights, is the subject of this interview with the Chicago Sun Times. She explains what she does as a long-haul driver, logging more than 6,200 miles a week. Clark also talks about why it’s a good career for women, and how she got a hand from her parents, who babysat her children as she drove.

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