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  • Being a woman in trucking is...

  • ...a bit of a rocky road.

  • My name is Chiamaka

  • and I'm a female CEO in a man's industry.

  • There's a lot of inefficiencies in West Africa.

  • You book a truck.

  • You keep your fingers crossed.

  • Hoping, waiting to see a shipment at your door.

  • If it shows up, fine. If it doesn't show up, too bad.

  • I was like why?

  • Why do we have to go through all of this?

  • Growing up, I always used to like to

  • take things apart, put things together.

  • I was always curious about what makes things work.

  • But I wanted to solve a real problem

  • like a real world problem.

  • Truckr is an app where shippers can go find

  • any kind of truck they want

  • to move whatever kind of cargo they have.

  • You click a button

  • and the truck comes to you, just like magic.

  • Google Maps Platform helps our customers

  • see in real time where their truck is.

  • You can watch the truck from the pick-up location

  • to the drop off.

  • All through the journey, they can talk to the driver

  • in real time.

  • Young Chiamaka would be so, super proud

  • of where I am right now.

  • Because when you can show that you do good work

  • in this male dominated industry,

  • they give you your respect.

  • We want to expand all through West Africa

  • and then definitely, it's Truckr to the world!

Being a woman in trucking is...

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