{"id":16134,"date":"2026-03-20T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=16134"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:23:09","slug":"women-in-trucking-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/women-in-trucking-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Women In Trucking Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) is encouraging companies in the transportation industry to complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">survey<\/a> that collects data on women\u2019s involvement in the industry. Interested participants can report their data via the live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">survey<\/a> through April 17, 2026, at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">womenintrucking.org\/index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The data will be used to develop an updated version of the WIT Index, which is the industry\u2019s barometer to regularly benchmark and measure the percentage of women who are in corporate management, functional roles, and professional truck drivers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The WIT Index is conducted every two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WIT is inviting for-hire trucking companies, private fleets, transportation intermediaries, railroads, ocean carriers, equipment manufacturers, and technology companies to report the percentage of women in various roles of their workforce. Data reported will be kept strictly confidential and will be reported only as aggregate totals of responses. Individuals completing the survey must be an authorized respondent from the company.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Participating companies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">survey<\/a> will receive an executive summary of the 2026-27 WIT Index at no cost, which will enable them to benchmark their own business hiring and talent management practices involving women against other companies in trucking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonitoring women\u2019s involvement in a male-populated industry like transportation is critical so that statistically valid data can be used to evaluate progress made in this area,\u201d said Jennifer Hedrick, CAE, president and CEO of WIT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe association created the WIT Index in 2016 to monitor the industry\u2019s progress in women\u2019s involvement among key roles, including corporate leaders and supervisors, technicians, safety directors, human resources, dispatchers and professional truck drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16135\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-768x402.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-400x209.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-440x230.webp 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-650x340.webp 650w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-621x325.webp 621w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WIT-Index-Collage-Participate-1200x628-web.jpg-726x380.webp 726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interested participants can report their data via the live survey through April 17, 2026.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most recent 2024-25 WIT Index found a substantial number of women in influential leadership roles. Approximately 28% in C-Suite and executive positions were women, 34.5% in supervisory leadership roles were women, and 29.5% of those who serve on boards of directors were women.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the 2024-25 WIT Index reported percentage of professional truck drivers with CDLs who are women based upon company workforce size.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data, micro\/small companies with less than 500 employees report that 12.5% of their overall professional driver population who hold CDLs were women, large\/medium enterprises with 500 to 4,999 employees report that approximately 10.5% of their overall professional driver workforce who hold CDLs were women and giant\/major enterprises with more than 5,000 employees report that approximately 7% of their truck driver population who hold CDLs were women.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interested participants can report their data via the live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">survey<\/a> through April 17, 2026, at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenintrucking.org\/index\">womenintrucking.org\/index<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) is encouraging companies in the transportation industry to complete a survey that collects data on women\u2019s involvement in the industry. 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