REAL Women in Trucking was created as a volunteer group to provide information resources for fellow drivers, prospective student truck drivers, trucking executives and the non-trucking community who are ill-informed about the human indignities and greed which has become pervasive in the trucking industry.

This site is funded privately.

Paid advertising and Banner Exchanges are available under certain terms which include ethical business practices.

Desiree Wood is the Founder of this Awareness Action Campaign. She is a Divorced Mother of 2 grown Children and has 6 Grandchildren. She began writing about her experiences as a single female entering trucking in 2008 on the “Ask the Trucker” blog. The still unedited story was written using mostly a cellphone. It is called “A Day in the Life of a Lady Trucker“.

In 2009 it became the basis of 4 Dan Rather Investigative reports into truck driver training. The theme of labor abuse in America went on to inspire an additional series of installments by Dan Rather on guest worker abuse programs which have affected the IT industry.

All of these programs can be found on iTunes.

Desiree Wood primarily used Twitter to share her story but at the urging of politically active friends on Twitter began a personal blog called “Trucker Desiree” to provide RAW insight of what was going on behind the scenes as attempts to intimidate her from telling her story began to unfold.

Currently, she uses You Tube to retell her story to a new audience of prospective student truck drivers and to educate about labor abuse by mis-managment in trucking.

She also manages several other social media projects to teach others and is completing her degree in Global Business & Public Policy.

Ms. Wood has been quoted in the “Wall Street Journal, Appeared in a Workplace Bullying Documentary about the trucking industry , and she and her Dog @TruckinDogKarma appear in the Documentary about Twitter called “Twittamentary“.

She has spoken out in numerous magazine interviews and radio programs about how the trucking industry lures people into training situations which are unsafe, particularly for females.

One of her many other interests is alternative energy. She proudly received an autographed book from Billionaire T. Boone Pickens her work on Twitter speaking out for energy independence.

While the primary focus of Desiree Wood in social media has been unsafe truck driver training, discrimination & violence against Women entering the trucking industry, she has been vocal on a number of other issues of human injustice and animal welfare.

She encourages others to understand that “One person CAN make a difference” and frequently reminds truck drivers to:

Her wish is for more individuals to LEARN how to use social media for positive purposes.

The art work for this site was done by Alex Raffi Editorial Cartoonist & Artist who also did Artwork for “Jason’s Law“.

The intent of “REAL Women in Trucking” is to show diversity because one of the biggest obstacles Women face is trying to control things that only lead to division. There are too many Women in the trucking industry trying to portray a false image and many of them are not now nor have ever been truck drivers themselves.

The independent life of a trucker might seem to eliminate that problem for our gender but Women are the last minority primarily due to our own infighting and willingness to become corporate apologists.

You cannot expect positive change if you do not STAND UP to be heard and continue to follow organizations blindly.

This site is not just for Women, it is to help anyone seeking information for the betterment of the industry overall. There are Gay Truckers, Intersexed Truckers, Vegetarian Truckers, Cowboy Truckers, Christian Truckers, Pagan Truckers, Hare Krishna Truckers, Politically Active Truckers, Computer Geek Truckers, and some who simply should NOT be out on the road for reasons of highway safety & personal safety to others.

This website and our Facebook “LIKE” page is a where we can communicate what is going on and help each those who wish to learn.

Are you ready to GET REAL?

You can find our Facebook FAN Page at “REAL Women Truckers”

For more information, Contact:

Desiree Wood (760) 975-6868 or (760) 621-3325

@TruckerDesiree