Meet Yogita Raghuvanshi - India s first woman truck driver
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Yogita Raghuvanshi is probably the most qualified truck driver in the country. On Monday morning, passers-by gawked in disbelief as a petite woman in her late forties expertly manoeuvred a massive 14-wheeler truck with its 30 tonne-cargo through Palakkad’s busy English Church Road. She had driven a liquor consignment all the way from Bhopal to a Kerala State Beverages Corporation godown.
According to The Hindu, Yogita is far from the archetypal inter-State trucker. She also happens to be a qualified lawyer, who preferred the tough and risky life on the highways to look after her family, instead of the pittance she would have earned as a beginner in the black robe. She and her huge truck have been criss-crossing the country through all kinds of terrain since 2000.