Truck-driver school’s ace is a woman
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN, gmartin@sun-herald.com
Cherlynn Scott sits in the cab of a truck at the SunCoast Trucking Academy after graduating Friday in Punta Gorda.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN, gmartin@sun-herald.com
Cherlynn Scott sits in the cab of a truck at the SunCoast Trucking Academy after graduating Friday in Punta Gorda.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Graduates of the SunCoast Trucking Academy pose with their diplomas Friday. They include: back row from left: Scott Uebelacker, Lewis Campbell, president Don Garner and instructor Scott Johnson; and, front row: Tim Kitzman and Cherlynn Scott.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Graduates of the SunCoast Trucking Academy pose with their diplomas Friday. They include: back row from left: Scott Uebelacker, Lewis Campbell, president Don Garner and instructor Scott Johnson; and, front row: Tim Kitzman and Cherlynn Scott.
PUNTA GORDA — Of the four students who graduated Friday from the SunCoast Trucking Academy, the ace of the class was 37-year-old Cherlynn Scott of DeSoto County. And that’s according to her all-male classmates.
Her graduation makes her one of some 200,000 women truckers nationwide. They make up about 5 percent of the trucking industry’s workforce, according to the trucking website www.layover.com.
