 Actually I've been wanting to drive since I was about six years old. The first time I crawled into a truck it was a 1975 Cabover Pete and my mother was the truck driver that boosted me up into it and I was sitting in the sleeper berth and sleeping back or sitting back in the bunk and I was like oh I'm becoming a truck driver my mother became a truck driver in the 70s in the mid 70s and and that at that time women women weren't and then of course I married a truck driver both my parents are truck drivers both my grandparents on either side or truck her heard his dad and her dad they teamed a lot so we already had an idea of where we were gonna go one of the reasons why she waited so long yes to become a truck driver because my grandmother when she was just gone all the time and my mom was a babysitter's most time and she didn't want to do that to us we already had an idea we had a bedrock foundation of you know this is what the industry is about I decided not to become a truck driver until my daughters were older I joined the traveling carnival that my older two worked for and I worked because I wanted to make sure I could handle the lifestyle because I had been that homebody I'd been at home for ten years doing the same job day and day I hated my job so got my CDL joined with she's been driving five years I've been driving four and a half that happy year makes a world of difference in case if you were wondering because in the competition of life I win I just it was so I was burning out so hard and mom she was like well I'm gonna get my CDL license she's like we could team together and we could both make more money and I was like well so I thought about I was like you go first so they support it my girl supported me while I went to school and then when I got out of school I was helping support them more driving with my daughter having her come into the truck with me after being solo there for a little bit for myself it we were co-workers at certain points of the day and we were mother-daughter interactions so we we knew how to separate that so we'd allow ourselves to be mad but we never stayed mad inside the truck it got bad enough we'd take it outside of the truck if we needed a super break like like come on we're just burning out on that give us a day our dispatcher would always do that they'd be like okay 34 hour reset for which was actually one of the best things about night is the fact that they were the only company that said that if she wanted more home time than I wanted she was allowed her home time and I could solo the truck out so I got keeping contact with why I love this industry and she got to be at home with her daughter I have a dog he is a husky he's a Siberian and Malamute mix and I got him from the pound about a year and a half ago having him on the truck with me even though it's a smaller space he gets more interaction and more exercise than he would if I lived in a city and worked a nine to five and lived in an apartment so being a trainer sitting in that seat you know after I know that my trainees good with the driving and handling and stuff like that on the long stretches I'll break out my sewing I do I have a project that I've been working on for a couple of years it's a quilt for my oldest granddaughter I also do operation caps there's a lot of women out there who there's a waiting list there's so many women who want to get into it and see if they can do it but we lack trainers because too many don't want to share their truck so women drivers in general then like six percent the less people there are to train and help these women figure out if they want to be a truck driver the less drivers we're gonna have so I mean I just so much for me already why not