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Title: Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document
Post by: Shana A on February 06, 2012, 08:07:57 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 06, 2012, 08:07:57 AM
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/ (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.
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/ (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.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document
Post by: Joelene9 on February 06, 2012, 04:39:15 PM
Post by: Joelene9 on February 06, 2012, 04:39:15 PM
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
Joelene
Title: Girl power-steering Meet the women who drive 40 tonne trucks for a living
Post by: Shana A on February 09, 2012, 09:23:32 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 09, 2012, 09:23:32 AM
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 (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.
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 (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.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document
Post by: greenjessica on February 15, 2012, 03:51:37 AM
Post by: greenjessica on February 15, 2012, 03:51:37 AM
It looks OK. Hopefully she is not exploited....
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document
Post by: justmeinoz on February 15, 2012, 04:27:59 AM
Post by: justmeinoz on February 15, 2012, 04:27:59 AM
More power to them all. It will be on TV here eventually, look forward to it.
Title: Re: Transsexual trucker Vikki-Marie Gaynor from Wirral to star in Channel 4 document
Post by: spacial on February 15, 2012, 05:54:14 AM
Post by: spacial on February 15, 2012, 05:54:14 AM
MotherTruckers. :D