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Author: Autocasión
April 11, 2023
The labor context around transport will worsen in the next decade due to the lack of academy and interest in the youngest. At the moment, 20,000 vacancies are unfilled.
The next decade will be critical to ensure generational change in the professional transport sector, since 72% of active drivers in Spain are already over 50 years of age.
This worsens the pressing lack of professionals in our country. In fact, every year, around 20,000 professional transport driver positions remain vacant, despite being a strategic sector in our country, as 90% of goods move by road.
Hence the need to seek solutions that ensure the arrival of qualified labor and, especially, open up the profession to traditionally less interested groups.
In the case of women, the presence of professional conductors is still very scarce. Our country barely exceeds 2%, while in Europe as a whole it does not reach 3%, according to the IRU (International Organization for Road Transport) report.
WoMAN Program
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In order to alleviate not only the lack of representativeness and diversity in professional transport, MAN has developed its WoMAN scholarship program, which is now in its third edition, with a double objective: increase the presence of women as professional drivers and contribute to the lack of drivers that the sector suffers.
To this end, this pioneering project consists of a financial aid to 10 scholarship recipients per editionintended to cover 70% of the costs of obtaining a truck driving license, either C for rigid or E for articulated, in addition to the Certificate of Professional Aptitude for transport.
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In addition, WoMAN not only generates youth behind the wheel. The tour ends with a Theoretical and dynamic training with MAN Profidrive driving coursesso that the becadas develop their skills behind the wheel and thus drive in a safer, more efficient and sustainable way.
Companies step up
The WoMAN initiative has gone a step further by adding the first companies to the program and thus materializing the “last training mile” of the scholarship program: the labor incorporation.
Specifically, the companies Disfrimur, Grupo Mazo and Grupo Perea, whose common denominator is that they are Spanish and of family origin, are the companies that join the project, with the premise that the drivers awarded scholarships in the program can access selection processes.
In the words of the CEO of MAN Truck & Bus Iberia, Stéphane de Creisquer, “the agreement reached with these three leading companies allows us to consolidate the WoMAN project and achieve a double positive effect: incorporate more drivers into the sector and increase diversity. They are trusted companies, where we know that these women can have a fruitful career path”.
