haul freight companies . According to Maralyn this is because they work better as a team than two men . “ Husband and wife two-ups don ’ t fight about who ’ s the boss that day . I know a number of women in their late forties and fifties who have been married to truck drivers and then when the kids leave home , get their licences and start driving as two-up partners .”
Maralyn has been driving a lot longer than twenty years . Her father had an earthmoving business and it was Maralyn , not her brother , who helped move the equipment on weekends . “ It ’ s in my blood
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