Lady Truckers go into print
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Iii he Lady Truckers Club has produced its first publication, in the form of a "Summer Special".
The editor describes it pointedly as "not a professional trade glossy, it's our Very Own press". Fair enough, and very entertaining it is too, full of anecdotes of life on the road supplied by women drivers. Take this tale from Julie Thomas, who once made early morning bakery deliveries...
"/ had arrived an hour early for my delivery, so, not to miss the opportunity for an hour's shut-eye, I bedded down. As I only had the hour I put my feet up on the passenger seat so that if! fell into too deep a sleep they would fall off and wake me up. From a
distance all that could be seen was a pair of Doc Marten's and the bottoms of my jeans.
Fifteen minutes later, just as I was dropping off there was a knock on my cab door. When I opened it, a woman stood there. She took one look at me, muttered that she had made a mistake and hurried off across the car park.
Yes you've guessed. She was a Lady of the Night. She must have been doing some overtime as it was 6.45am."
Elsewhere, Frances Sykes provides some useful putdowns aimed at male chauvinists. (Sample: "My, you're a big girl!" "Yes, and aren't you a little man.") And a tongue-in-cheek column attributed to "Hot Vixen" asks men with sexual problems to send them in — "I'm sure that they will make fascinating reading and sensational blackmail material".
Copies are available at £1.75 from LTC chairwoman Ilona Richards at 1 Horton Avenue, Stretton, Burton upon Trent, Staffs, DE13 ODP. Ilona is also looking for driving work for herself — "anywhere, anytime",