What Are You Sponsoring?

What are you Sponsoring?

Conflict s of Interest with regard to Women entering trucking can result in violence, & abuse. Does your organization support this?
Issue: Women Truckers ( especially those who are just entering the industry) are currently being exposed to both systemic and sporadic abuse which is not being admitted or addressed in any meaningful or constructive manner despite increased recruitment.
Objective:
To raise this issue to the attention of those in all areas of transportation & logistics community.
Insure the truth is told by helping to better track/report incidents
Expose to the public the unethical conduct until the systemic changes to rectify the above issues so they will stop.
NO ONE!, should have to worry about being harmed at their place of employment

A Day in the Life of a Lady Trucker
In 2008, I began exposing harassment & retaliation in truck driver training through a series of posts which became a series of Investigative Reports by Dan Rather

Membership Revoked for Speaking Out on Violence & Retaliation
Support from Women in Trucking
I joined the non-profit
organization “Women in Trucking” in early 2008.
I was verbally attacked, cyber stalked and later had my membership revoked for speaking out on harassment, violence and retaliation on women entering the trucking industry.
The same organization that denied such a problem existed promptly moved to benefit by presenting themselves as advocates following the Dan Rather broadcasts
President, Ellen Voie went on to consult with a Private Investigator to dig up dirt on me when I persisted in exposing what was going on.

Women Entering Trucking
Misleading advertisements targeted at Women create an irresponsible image of Women Truckers
Targeted Recruitment of Women to enter trucking has grown to a rate of 18% - 20% YET, Retention remains low at 5%-6%.
Little if any conduct training is provided at training carriers despite a highly intense, intimate living situations in which truck drivers are expected to learn with no supervision.
Women trainees, and sometimes Men are subjected to sexual misconduct, violent situations and in some cases rape during their training period.
Retaliation by HR Personnel, Management and other Industry entities is frequent for reporting abuse.
Abusers are often protected while victims are eliminated from industry through DAC abuse and humiliation

Advocate?
Currently there is no organization looking into these issues and honestly working to track, prevent, reduce and eliminate them.
August 2009, President Ellen Voie of “Women in Trucking” eagerly agreed to be filmed for a workplace bullying documentary called “Raw Sound Bytes from a Trucking Convention where she admits she has only heard the carrier CRST side of the story in the massive CRST sexual harassment case yet she did have access to a female driver in the case named Tracy Hamm.
Ellen Voie stated that her advice to a woman who was harmed during training would be to go to the carrier HR dept. or EEOC, yet she says in the same segment the EEOC was the problem in the CRST case and on multiple emails she has been advised HR is a big part of the problem in these incidents.
Ellen Voie verbally attempted to discredit my personal story to filmmaker Beverly Petersen yet I have never worked for Ellen Voie .
My own company did not attempt to discredit my story.
In a 32 question Q & A with Ellen Voie regarding the unfortunate and uncaring remarks made about Women truckers from the documentary, Director Marge Bailey, stated that “Women in Trucking” “is not” an advocacy group for drivers, later she retracted this statement.

Covering up Abuse is not Advocacy!
Upon failing to cover up abuse which is well known in the truck driver training industry, Ellen Voie began inserting herself as a person who would correct the problem, she has yet to deliver.
In the fall of 2009, Ellen Voie sought information from actual women drivers to create a “Best Practices” white paper for the trucking industry , this helped her image but she has yet to present this guideline despite increasing her big name sponsors.
In February 2010, it became clear that Ellen Voie meant to use actual Women truckers to advance her own agenda without addressing the very serious issue of violence against women entering the industry.
The 3 part series on the free site “REAL Women In Trucking” exposed that the WIT organization is nothing more than a sponsorship and PR Machine .

Conflict of Interest
Portraying Women Truckers as “Party Girls” jeopardizes personal safety in an industry that provides little supervision yet requires super intense training environments where mixed genders are expect to live & work together
Women In Trucking Association, a non-profit organization of Plover, Wisconsin was established to encourage the employment of Women into the trucking industry, this includes women truckers.
Women In Trucking Organization should not be a watchdog for tracking or addressing these issues of abuse & retaliation because it is a conflict of interest.
Raising/Admitting these issues and incidents exist in significant numbers counters the goal to paint a rosy picture on Women in trucking to keep the new recruits coming.

Confused? OR Cover Up?
Sponsors may not understand that this conflict of interest implies a cover up and actually hurts women further who are entering trucking
Female Truck driving trainees are being both targeted and misled into the trucking industry with a complete disregard for their personal safety.
Retaliation by Human Resources departments, false DAC reporting and “Un-hireable ” references effectively eliminate Women from the industry who have reported abuse.
As this issue is exposed and diversity becomes more of a topic, it is only natural that potential sponsors will look to associations to clarify their intentions.
Women In Trucking has proved time and again they seek to promote themselves with a disregard for those who have no voice. THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS FOR WOMEN WHO HAVE NO ADVOCATE
The problem of violence against Women entering the trucking industry is serious, sponsoring a “FEEL GOOD” organization may actually be harming someone.

MAN UP!
REAL Women Truckers need REAL Leadership!
Women are regularly thrown off trucks, abused, beat up and even raped during training. DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION SUPPORT THIS?
Do you understand “Where Truck Drivers Come From?”
Please educate yourself BEFORE you sponsor a “FEEL GOOD” Organization.
DO NOT CONTRACT WITH TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING FLEETS WHO DO NOT PROVIDE CONDUCT TRAINING AND EMPLOY ETHICAL TRAINING FOR MEN & WOMEN

COURAGE TO CHANGE
“REAL Women In Trucking was created to provide free self help tools for Women entering the industry so they can protect themselves against the trucking industry”
We understand the deliberate confusion created by WIT to benefit from what was exposed after they attempted to cover it up but it’s never too late to get educated on the truth.
Violence against Women in and around the trucking industry is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Help Women be successful in trucking by helping to rectify the silent abuse that has been occurring please think carefully about where you permit your sponsorship logo to appear.

Join Us on our Facebook Fan Page:“Real Women Truckers”www.REALWomeninTrucking.comFollow us on Twitter: @WomenTruckers
For more information contact:Desiree Wood(760) 975-6868TruckerDesiree@gmail.comwww.truckerdesiree.com

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What Are You Sponsoring?

by Desiree Wood on Oct 27, 2010

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