![]() Talent Insights is also notable because it’s part of a trend, where LinkedIn has been launching a number of other services that take it beyond being a straight social network, and more of an IT productivity tool. Talent Insights is significant in part because it is LinkedIn’s first foray into business intelligence, that branch of enterprise analytics aimed at helping execs and other corporate end users make more informed business decisions. But now under the ownership of Microsoft, the company has increasingly started to build a number of other services today sees the latest of these, the launch of a new feature called Talent Insights. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.LinkedIn may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking, recruitment and more - a service that today that has racked up more than 575 million users, 20 million companies and 15 million active job listings. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. JERRY REED: (Singing) East bound and down, loaded up and trucking. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EAST BOUND AND DOWN") MARTIN: With more visibility and more acceptance from trucking companies now, Sherman says it should entice more LGBTQ individuals to look into a career in trucking.įor NPR News, I'm Jacob Martin in Bowling Green, Ky. And they're places that I've gone to for years. So the places where I'd go I'm familiar with, I don't have a problem. I've been all 48 states, been through most of Canada. Sherman is a transgender driver and transitioned while she was trucking. MARTIN: She started as a long-haul driver in 1972 after serving in the Vietnam War. My uncles and my father in my early life all drove trucks. RONI HAZEL SHERMAN: I was always interested in driving something from little. He says queer and trans drivers have always been a part of life on the road. But Coffey-Loy's group has several thousand members. MARTIN: There are no official statistics on how many LGBTQ people are in trucking today. There're so many companies that have opened up. They check whether companies support LGBTQ drivers or if their health insurance covers things like trans health care.ĬOFFEY-LOY: Companies is where I see the biggest progress at this point. MARTIN: The nonprofit now screens trucking companies to make sure they're LGBTQ friendly. His organization started as a way to represent truckers who didn't identify as straights but also to show there's money to be made in trucking.īOBBY COFFEY-LOY: It's trying to bridge the gap between the regular LGBTQ community and trucking community, letting them realize that there is drivers out here, that it's a good option for a job and paying for surgeries and whatever, you know, your personal goal is. He's the founder of the LGBTQ+ Truckers Network based in Bowling Green, Ky. HANSEN: So you're seeing a lot of the gay community, and rightly so. For Hansen, it doesn't matter what race, gender or orientation you are, as long as you can get the job done. So trucker recruitment is diversifying to get drivers behind the wheel. The average trucker is 46 years old, amidst a growing shortage of roughly 80,000 drivers. MARTIN: Minorities account for 42% of truck drivers, according to industry data, but 90% are still men. I'm seeing people of color, of different nationalities, a lot of transgenders. I'm seeing more ladies dropping and hooking. ![]() Day after day after day, I'm seeing more ladies at the fuel island. HANSEN: I am seeing it in the truck stop. MARTIN: She's raised a family while pulling tractor-trailers across the country and has been around long enough to see important changes in the people who make up the long-haul truck driving community. And, yes, sir, I've been doing it since I was 18 in some form or fashion. ![]() IDELLA HANSEN: I'm 73 and fast approaching 74. JACOB MARTIN, BYLINE: Idella Hansen is a long-haul trucker with over 50 years of experience. ![]() reports, women and people who are LGBTQ+ are buckling up as the industry works to solve a driver shortage. As Jacob Martin of member station WKYU (ph) in Bowling Green, Ky. The billion-dollar trucking industry is changing and - pun alert here - with it, a shift in who's behind the wheel. ![]()
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