I’m Britain’s most glamorous lorry driver – I left the Army to drive HGVs & I wouldn’t change it for the world
A WOMAN who previously served in the army has switched her career to become a successful lorry driver, proving her critics wrong.
Nicolle, who goes by the name of Trucker Baddie on the internet, often received tons of misogynistic comment about her male-dominated profession.
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"But to know we are our own bosses of a haulage company now… it makes me want to go out there to other women and say you can do it – it doesn’t matter if it’s a male dominated industry.
“Women can do it and you don’t have to worry about the stigma and what men think of it because I always get comments and you just have to brush them off and it can be done.
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"I really am proud of it. The day we actually picked up the lorry we were both just sat in the truck in disbelief like ‘oh my god this is ours'."
Ben and Nicolle reportedly spent £40,000 on their truck and another £60,000 setting up their business.
To save the rather big sum of money, both of them worked hard to generate a steady and significant income from the racey website.
Nicolle told the media outlet selling her pictures online is something she sees as a job to fund her passion.
"I don’t want to be doing that forever. So we look at that as having an expiry date.
"And we don’t want to be in a position where I want to stop doing that and then end up in full-time work for somebody else.
"So we thought it was probably best to set up our own company.”
The couple have now vlog their trucker journey and behind the scenes and upload them on their YouTube channel Trucker Baddie where they have 10,000 subscribers.
Reflecting on their journey so far, Ben added: "I am mega proud. I try and keep myself grounded and remind myself that it was only a year and a half, two years ago when I was working flat out for somebody else and to be fair I am working flat out now but it is for myself.
Ben and Nicolle are now planning to expand their business - with a few more trucks and a couple of drivers working for them.