Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document

[Shana A]

Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 documentary MotherTruckers

    by Gemma Jaleel, Liverpool Echo
    Feb 6 2012

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/in-the-mix/2012/02/06/transsexual-trucker-vikki-marie-gaynor-from-wirral-to-star-in-channel-4-documentary-mothertruckers-100252-30272894/

TRANSSEXUAL trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Merseyside will star in a one-off Channel 4 documentary MotherTruckers following the lives of women lorry drivers.

Vikki-Marie Gaynor, 41, will feature alongside a line-up of female truckers trying to make their way in a male-dominated industry.

The Channel 4 show, MotherTruckers, which airs on Thursday, chronicles Vikki- Marie's struggle to find work and acceptance.

Vikki-Marie, who lives in Seacombe, Wirral, told the ECHO: "I had such a fantastic time making the programme. The girls were great and it was great to be able to relate to someone who knows the job as well as you do.

[Joelene9]

  Sounds like a nice documentary.  There was a male trucker here in the west with the CB handle of "Mother Trucker" in the late 1970's, his last name was Mother.  Also at a truck stop here west of town was a communications repair shop by the name of Mother Trucker's CB repair. 
  Joelene

[Shana A]

Girl power-steering
Meet the women who drive 40 tonne trucks for a living

By AMY JONES
Published: Today at 02:52

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/4117933/Meet-the-glamorous-female-truck-drivers.html

VIKKI-MARIE, from Wallasey, Merseyside, used to be a man, now she's a female lorry driver. The 41-year-old says:

I'm the only mothertrucker who has to shave!

I got my HGV licence when I was an 18-year-old lad in the Army. I've always had a thing about heavy machinery.

All I ever wanted was to be a female truck driver.

I transitioned from a man to a woman while I was in the job. But the firm sacked me when I became Vikki because they were embarrassed.

[greenjessica]

It looks OK.  Hopefully she is not exploited....

[justmeinoz]

More power to them all.   It will be on TV here eventually, look forward to it.

[spacial]

MotherTruckers.