One out of every 13 Iowans works in the trucking industry, but the average age of an Iowa trucker is 57.

 

That’s Brenda Neville, president of the Iowa Motor Truck Association. Her association and the Iowa Motor Carriers Foundation are launching an “image” campaign to boost interest in trucking as a career and spread the word about the industry’s impact on the state’s economy.

 

There are nearly 12-thousand registered Iowa companies that send truckers throughout the country. Another 92-hundred Iowa trucking firms operate just within the state’s borders.

Over 100-thousand Iowans work in the trucking industry and that includes technicians who work on the trucks as well as office staff who manage the routes and even monitor and control the temperatures on refrigerated loads.