Thursday, July 3, 2025
  • About Us
  • Advertisement
  • Privacy Policy
The Daily Crucible
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
    Lagos Bans Real Estate Practice, Others Without LASRERA Certification

    Lagos Bans Real Estate Practice, Others Without LASRERA Certification

    ICYMI: President Tinubu Confers GCON on Outgoing Afrexim Bank Chairman, Benedict Oramah

    ICYMI: President Tinubu Confers GCON on Outgoing Afrexim Bank Chairman, Benedict Oramah

    FG Gives N60B To Gombe For Agro-Livestock Industrial Zone

    FG Gives N60B To Gombe For Agro-Livestock Industrial Zone

    Pelican Valley CEO, Dabiri-Erewa To Poach Diaspora Investments From UK

    Pelican Valley CEO, Dabiri-Erewa To Poach Diaspora Investments From UK

    Nigeria’s Foreign Trade Hits ₦36,025 Billion In Q1, ’25 As Oil, Non – Oil Exports Rise

    Nigeria’s Foreign Trade Hits ₦36,025 Billion In Q1, ’25 As Oil, Non – Oil Exports Rise

     Let Bayo Ojulari Clean the Rot In NNPCL, Oil Experts Tell Tinubu

     Let Bayo Ojulari Clean the Rot In NNPCL, Oil Experts Tell Tinubu

    Trending Tags

    • Market Stories
    • Bitcoin
    • Litecoin
    • Harbolnas
    • United Stated
    • Property
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Lifestyle
    ‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

    ‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

    Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

    Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 

    Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 

    Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87

    Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87

    If Akeredolu Had Listened To Me, I Wouldn’t Be a Widow, Laments Ex – Governor’s Wife, Betty

    If Akeredolu Had Listened To Me, I Wouldn’t Be a Widow, Laments Ex – Governor’s Wife, Betty

    Trending Tags

    • Bitcoin
    • Champions League
    • Explore Bali
    • Golden Globes 2018
    • Grammy Awards
    • Harbolnas
  • Entertainment
    ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons’ Set for Debut July 25

    ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons’ Set for Debut July 25

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    Tinubu, Gov Mbah Mourn Nonagenarian Highlife Music Icon Ejeagha

    Tinubu, Gov Mbah Mourn Nonagenarian Highlife Music Icon Ejeagha

    Drug Cartel Members Abdúct, Kíll 5 Musicians On Way To Concert Venue

    Drug Cartel Members Abdúct, Kíll 5 Musicians On Way To Concert Venue

    I’m Still Saving My Virginity – Actress Olayode

    I’m Still Saving My Virginity – Actress Olayode

    My Ultimate Vision Is To Elevate African Sounds On the Global Stage – Ebonny Musik

    My Ultimate Vision Is To Elevate African Sounds On the Global Stage – Ebonny Musik

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes 2018
    • Grammy Awards
    • Explore Bali
    • Champions League
    • Harbolnas
  • Sports
    NSF Tragedy: Abiodun Mourns, Sends Delegation To Kano, Supports Victims’ Families With N31m

    NSF Tragedy: Abiodun Mourns, Sends Delegation To Kano, Supports Victims’ Families With N31m

    Gateway Games: Protesting Ogun Athletes Lift Siege At Games Village

    Gateway Games: Protesting Ogun Athletes Lift Siege At Games Village

    Gateway Games Activities Grounded As Ogun Athletes Protest Over Unpaid Allowance

    Gateway Games Activities Grounded As Ogun Athletes Protest Over Unpaid Allowance

    Odogbolu Leads As First Local Govt To Adopt eSports

    Odogbolu Leads As First Local Govt To Adopt eSports

    Gateway Games: Athletes, Spectators Flee As Gas Explosion Rocks Alake Sports Complex

    Gateway Games: Athletes, Spectators Flee As Gas Explosion Rocks Alake Sports Complex

    Gateway Games: NSC Disqualifies 6 Athletes Over Alleged Doping Issues

    Gateway Games: NSC Disqualifies 6 Athletes Over Alleged Doping Issues

    Trending Tags

    • Champions League
    • Explore Bali
    • Harbolnas
    • United Stated
    • Market Stories
    • Litecoin
No Result
View All Result
The Daily Crucible
  • Home
  • News
  • Business
    Lagos Bans Real Estate Practice, Others Without LASRERA Certification

    Lagos Bans Real Estate Practice, Others Without LASRERA Certification

    ICYMI: President Tinubu Confers GCON on Outgoing Afrexim Bank Chairman, Benedict Oramah

    ICYMI: President Tinubu Confers GCON on Outgoing Afrexim Bank Chairman, Benedict Oramah

    FG Gives N60B To Gombe For Agro-Livestock Industrial Zone

    FG Gives N60B To Gombe For Agro-Livestock Industrial Zone

    Pelican Valley CEO, Dabiri-Erewa To Poach Diaspora Investments From UK

    Pelican Valley CEO, Dabiri-Erewa To Poach Diaspora Investments From UK

    Nigeria’s Foreign Trade Hits ₦36,025 Billion In Q1, ’25 As Oil, Non – Oil Exports Rise

    Nigeria’s Foreign Trade Hits ₦36,025 Billion In Q1, ’25 As Oil, Non – Oil Exports Rise

     Let Bayo Ojulari Clean the Rot In NNPCL, Oil Experts Tell Tinubu

     Let Bayo Ojulari Clean the Rot In NNPCL, Oil Experts Tell Tinubu

    Trending Tags

    • Market Stories
    • Bitcoin
    • Litecoin
    • Harbolnas
    • United Stated
    • Property
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Lifestyle
    ‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

    ‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

    Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

    Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 

    Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 

    Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87

    Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87

    If Akeredolu Had Listened To Me, I Wouldn’t Be a Widow, Laments Ex – Governor’s Wife, Betty

    If Akeredolu Had Listened To Me, I Wouldn’t Be a Widow, Laments Ex – Governor’s Wife, Betty

    Trending Tags

    • Bitcoin
    • Champions League
    • Explore Bali
    • Golden Globes 2018
    • Grammy Awards
    • Harbolnas
  • Entertainment
    ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons’ Set for Debut July 25

    ‘Ireke: Rise of the Maroons’ Set for Debut July 25

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    ‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

    Tinubu, Gov Mbah Mourn Nonagenarian Highlife Music Icon Ejeagha

    Tinubu, Gov Mbah Mourn Nonagenarian Highlife Music Icon Ejeagha

    Drug Cartel Members Abdúct, Kíll 5 Musicians On Way To Concert Venue

    Drug Cartel Members Abdúct, Kíll 5 Musicians On Way To Concert Venue

    I’m Still Saving My Virginity – Actress Olayode

    I’m Still Saving My Virginity – Actress Olayode

    My Ultimate Vision Is To Elevate African Sounds On the Global Stage – Ebonny Musik

    My Ultimate Vision Is To Elevate African Sounds On the Global Stage – Ebonny Musik

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes 2018
    • Grammy Awards
    • Explore Bali
    • Champions League
    • Harbolnas
  • Sports
    NSF Tragedy: Abiodun Mourns, Sends Delegation To Kano, Supports Victims’ Families With N31m

    NSF Tragedy: Abiodun Mourns, Sends Delegation To Kano, Supports Victims’ Families With N31m

    Gateway Games: Protesting Ogun Athletes Lift Siege At Games Village

    Gateway Games: Protesting Ogun Athletes Lift Siege At Games Village

    Gateway Games Activities Grounded As Ogun Athletes Protest Over Unpaid Allowance

    Gateway Games Activities Grounded As Ogun Athletes Protest Over Unpaid Allowance

    Odogbolu Leads As First Local Govt To Adopt eSports

    Odogbolu Leads As First Local Govt To Adopt eSports

    Gateway Games: Athletes, Spectators Flee As Gas Explosion Rocks Alake Sports Complex

    Gateway Games: Athletes, Spectators Flee As Gas Explosion Rocks Alake Sports Complex

    Gateway Games: NSC Disqualifies 6 Athletes Over Alleged Doping Issues

    Gateway Games: NSC Disqualifies 6 Athletes Over Alleged Doping Issues

    Trending Tags

    • Champions League
    • Explore Bali
    • Harbolnas
    • United Stated
    • Market Stories
    • Litecoin
No Result
View All Result
The Daily Crucible
No Result
View All Result
Home Lifestyle

‘I Make $144,000 A Year’ – Female Truck Driver 

The Daily Crucible by The Daily Crucible
November 19, 2022
in Lifestyle
0
‘I Make $144,000 A Year’ – Female Truck Driver 

You might also like

‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

Clarissa Rankin, mother of two, is challenging stereotypes.
The 36-year-old, Charlotte, North Carolina, resident is a professional truck driver hauling an array of goods from diapers to TVs to canned goods across the East Coast.
“People always have this image in their mind of a truck driver being a man with a big old stomach, big old beard and wearing overalls,” she says, adding that, “I love to get that expression on people’s faces like, ‘Can you really drive that?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes, I got this honey.’”
Rankin loves her job, and her trucking company brought in $144,208 last year. But getting there wasn’t easy. Here’s how she built her successful career, and how she’s changing people’s minds about what trucking can really be.
Rankin, who’s married with two children, went to school for criminal justice but couldn’t find work in the field. Instead, she took a job as a substitute teacher making $1,900 per month. That wasn’t enough to help support her family.
Rankin’s husband had worked in the trucking industry himself and encouraged her to make the pivot. She found she loved driving a truck immediately. The job was outdoors, far preferable to an office job that would keep her indoors all day.
During the test to get her truck driving license, “I showed him how I can maneuver that big old thing,” she says about the instructor, “and I got the license the very first time.”
‘I got turned down so many times’
Despite her immediate love of the job, it was hard for Rankin to find work. “I’m not, like, your everyday truck driver,” she says. “I’m so girly. So I got turned down so many times.”
She finally got hired after her sixth interview, but was making less than $50,000 per year, and felt that, too, wasn’t enough.
Instead, she decided to start her own trucking business: JC Rankins Transport.
Rankin’s company has now been in business for four years.
She works sporadically throughout the week, depending on the frequency with which she finds jobs on apps like TruckLoads, which shows pickup and drop off jobs throughout the country that various companies need done. She’s driven as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Florida. “Having your own truck comes with a lot of freedom,” she says.
There are costs, though: In 2021, her truck lease was $49,200. Maintenance was $2,665. Fuel was $19,336. But, ultimately, her take home pay was $73,007, considerably more than she’s made on other jobs.
 Rankin now makes money documenting her trucker life on social media. She has nearly 2 million followers on TikTok and was able to make an additional $36,000 in 2021 from promotional videos and advertising.
Even as she’s found a career she loves, Rankin still encounters challenges. Women make up less than 8% of professional drivers, according to the American Trucking Associations. Truck stops, roadside service stations for truck drivers including restaurants, fueling stations and sometimes showers, don’t cater to women, and don’t necessarily provide items like tampons or pads. Male drivers also criticize her for what she’s wearing, like shorts over the summer. And people judge her life choices.
Rankin’s husband works from home as a videographer and stays with their boys while she’s on the road. “We get told like, ‘Why is she on the road and you at home with them kids? She needed to be home with them kids. She there with another man,’” she says.
Still, Rankin wouldn’t change what she does. “I love my job so much,” she says, because she gets to provide a service and ensure people get the goods they need.
“I love being that superhero.”
Credit: CNBC
ADVERTISEMENT
Tags: CharlotteClarissa RankinNorth CarolinaProfessional truck driver
Previous Post

Why I Didn’t Visit Mrs Itubo, Rivers LP Guber Candidate – Peter Obi

Next Post

Naomi Biden, Peter Neal Marry In White House Wedding

The Daily Crucible

The Daily Crucible

The Daily Crucible Newspaper is an authoritative and independent online news medium established to deliver professional journalism for the purpose of fostering Nigeria's unity, peace, progress and greatness, given the heterogeneity of her citizens. We shall vigorously pursue this vision and anchor it on tripod of truth, justice and fairness. We shall feed the general public with robust information they need to make informed decision on issues and matters that affect them, promote human - capital development, freedom and free market enterprise. And our loyalty shall be to Nigeria and public interest, and shall respect ethnic, religious and political diversity without being partisan and sectional.

Related Posts

‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 
Lifestyle

‘Meeting President Tinubu and Prime Minister Pierre Is a Very Inspiring Moment For Me’ – Nigerian Medical Student In Saint Lucia 

by The Daily Crucible
June 30, 2025
Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord
Lifestyle

Amosun’s Wife, Other Descendants of Ogunbona Agboketoyinbo Mark 164th Memorial of their Revered Egba Warlord

by The Daily Crucible
June 19, 2025
‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival
Entertainment

‘Steeze,’ Glamour As Ijebu Celebrates Ojude Oba Cultural Carnival

by The Daily Crucible
June 8, 2025
Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 
Lifestyle

Surveyor Haleemat Oluwatoyin Yusuf’s Day Of Double Celebration 

by The Daily Crucible
June 6, 2025
Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87
Lifestyle

Giant Of African Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Departs At 87

by The Daily Crucible
May 29, 2025
Next Post
Naomi Biden, Peter Neal Marry In White House Wedding

Naomi Biden, Peter Neal Marry In White House Wedding

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recommended

Man Electrocuted While Trying To Steal Transformer Cables In Minna 

Man Electrocuted While Trying To Steal Transformer Cables In Minna 

September 8, 2023
Gov Yahaya Bello Freezes All State, Local Govts’ Accounts

Gov Yahaya Bello Freezes All State, Local Govts’ Accounts

November 23, 2023

Categories

  • Business
  • Column
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Interview
  • Lifestyle
  • Metro
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Property
  • Sports
  • World

Don't miss it

We Pay $2,500 Annually For Work Permit, Nigerians In St. Lucia Tell Tinubu
News

We Pay $2,500 Annually For Work Permit, Nigerians In St. Lucia Tell Tinubu

July 3, 2025
Domestic Cooking Gas Price Rises By 3.57 Percent – NBS 
News

Domestic Cooking Gas Price Rises By 3.57 Percent – NBS 

July 2, 2025
 Court Jails 8 In Calabar For Internet Fraud
News

 Court Jails 8 In Calabar For Internet Fraud

July 2, 2025
Alleged N27b Fraud: Darius Ishaku Advised Me to Hide For 6 Months To Evade EFCC Investigation – Witness
News

Alleged N27b Fraud: Darius Ishaku Advised Me to Hide For 6 Months To Evade EFCC Investigation – Witness

July 2, 2025
Iresaadu Community Kicks Against Soun’s Town Hall Meeting, vows to shun it
News

Iresaadu Community Kicks Against Soun’s Town Hall Meeting, vows to shun it

July 2, 2025
Ralph Nwosu, Other ADC Leaders Stepped Down For Mark, Aregbesola
News

Ralph Nwosu, Other ADC Leaders Stepped Down For Mark, Aregbesola

July 2, 2025
The Daily Crucible

The Daily Crucible Newspaper is an authoritative and independent online news medium established to deliver professional journalism for the purpose of fostering Nigeria's unity, peace, progress, and greatness, given the heterogeneity of its citizens.

© 2022 The Daily Crucible - Designed by CYBERWARRIOR.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Property
  • Business
  • Education
  • Health
  • Entertainment
  • About Us

© 2022 The Daily Crucible - Designed by CYBERWARRIOR.