Updated: 10:11 PM CDT Apr 19, 2021
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Show Transcript REPORTER: WHEN MOST OF US THINK OF TRUCKING AND TRUCK DRIVERS WE USUALLY HAVE A MENTAL PICTURE OF A MAN BUT MORE AND MORE WOMEN ARE STARTING TO PICTUR THEMSELVES IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT. EVERYONE ASKS ME WHAT MADE YOU THINK ABOUT TRUCKING? THAT’S SUCH A GREAT IDEA. AND I ALWAYS HAVE TO TELL THEM. IT WASN’T MINE. IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS. I HAVE HAD A FEW THAT I JUST KNEW WAS A TRUE GOD MOMENT. AND HIS WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM. REPORTER: AFTER SPENDING MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE IN FITNESS YOU COULD SAY CANDACE RIVERS SORT OF BACKED INTO THE IDEA OF BEING A TRUCK DRIVER. A SUDDEN MOMENT OF SPIRTUAL CLARITY CAME TO HER WHILE DRIVING ON INTERSTATE 20. THE MOTHER OF THREE ASKED GOD FOR DIRECTION AND SHE SAYS THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD ANSWERED. I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. IT SAID THEY’RE FORGOTTEN ABOUT AND THEY THINK THAT THEY DON’T MATTER SO, I’M LIKE WHO’S FORGOTTEN LORD? WHO THINKS THAT THEY
High-profile coverage of a rising tide of TikTok influencers among female truckers yields a question: Are you sharing vids there? One of our own contributors is.