Home Entertainment Television Jennifer is one of the seven “Queens of the roads »From 6ter – Wlad SIMITCH / M6 The world of transport matters 190. 000 truck drivers in France, of which only 5% are women. To highlight them, 6ter is offering a documentary series, Les Reines de la Route , devoted to their profession which necessarily takes precedence over their private life. 000 Minutes queried Renaud Rahard, director of programs for Warner Bros, which produces the show. They are at the wheel of the biggest templates on the road. Lexie, Sarah and Chrystelle are among the 5% of women who work as drivers heavy goods vehicles in France, out of a total of 190. 000 road . A category largely under-represented among the workforce of this profession which requires daily sacrifices. In The Queens of the Road , broadcast from this Thursday, January 7, seven of them agreed to take the cameras of 6ter in their cabin to talk about it. Four and a half months of follow-up The program is an adaptation of a German format, called “Trucker Babes” (which could wisely translate as “the girls of the truck”) . For four and a half months, the French version teams kept in touch with seven female truck drivers. However, the cameras did not run so long. To make the show more spectacular, the missions of the truck drivers were carefully studied. A load of gypsum in the largest underground quarry in Europe, back and forth in the fog, a crossing of the Rhône with a 44 tons, so many objectives that the “queens of the road” (almost) must achieve on a daily basis. In the context of a television show, it is blessed bread since issues interfere in the program. “There is time pressure. You have to take things when they have just been made and take them to a place where they are expected, explains Renaud Rahard, director of programs for Warner Bros., to 20 Minutes. How do we organize ourselves within this voltage of the charging socket and how to do it on time? “ A program that has “to do with freedom” One of the strengths of the program is undeniably its cast. Aged of 20 at 49 years, the seven selected are keen to pass on their passion, whether they have been riding for ten years or only a year and a half. “It also has to do with freedom,” says Renaud Rahard. All the women who do have decided to be free. They all have a strong personality to pass the HGV license, be responsible for their load and face the people they are confronted with all day. “ For the Finding out, production called on transport companies directly “because it was very important to have the agreement and collaboration of employers”, notes Renaud Rahard. She then relied on various criteria such as their age or their desire to participate in the program. “We had the choice because overall they are pretty formidable women who are good characters in their majority,” says the director of programs of Warner Bros. The stressful moments of the show are intertwined with more intimate moments of life, when women testify to the fear that may have animated them at the beginning of their career when they had to sleep alone in their cabin, but also more comical. Sarah will be remembered in particular, 21 years old, crossing the Italian border and taking selfies with male truck drivers, amazed to see a woman doing their job. A situation that does not abrupt the young woman who never loses her smile, despite these somewhat clumsy men who almost feed the clichés.
Home Entertainment Television Jennifer is one of the seven “Queens of the roads »From 6ter – Wlad SIMITCH / M6 The world of transport matters 190. 000 truck drivers in France, of which only 5% are women. To highlight them, 6ter is offering a documentary series, Les Reines de la Route , devoted to their profession which necessarily takes precedence over their private life. 000 Minutes queried Renaud Rahard, director of programs for Warner Bros, which produces the show. They are at the wheel of the biggest templates on the road. Lexie, Sarah and Chrystelle are among the 5% of women who work as drivers heavy goods vehicles in France, out of a total of 190. 000 road . A category largely under-represented among the workforce of this profession which requires daily sacrifices. In The Queens of the Road , broadcast from this Thursday, January 7, seven of them agreed to take the cameras of 6ter in their cabin to talk about it. Four and a half months of follow-up The program is an adaptation of a German format, called “Trucker Babes” (which could wisely translate as “the girls of the truck”) . For four and a half months, the French version teams kept in touch with seven female truck drivers. However, the cameras did not run so long. To make the show more spectacular, the missions of the truck drivers were carefully studied. A load of gypsum in the largest underground quarry in Europe, back and forth in the fog, a crossing of the Rhône with a 44 tons, so many objectives that the “queens of the road” (almost) must achieve on a daily basis. In the context of a television show, it is blessed bread since issues interfere in the program. “There is time pressure. You have to take things when they have just been made and take them to a place where they are expected, explains Renaud Rahard, director of programs for Warner Bros., to 20 Minutes. How do we organize ourselves within this voltage of the charging socket and how to do it on time? “ A program that has “to do with freedom” One of the strengths of the program is undeniably its cast. Aged of 20 at 49 years, the seven selected are keen to pass on their passion, whether they have been riding for ten years or only a year and a half. “It also has to do with freedom,” says Renaud Rahard. All the women who do have decided to be free. They all have a strong personality to pass the HGV license, be responsible for their load and face the people they are confronted with all day. “ For the Finding out, production called on transport companies directly “because it was very important to have the agreement and collaboration of employers”, notes Renaud Rahard. She then relied on various criteria such as their age or their desire to participate in the program. “We had the choice because overall they are pretty formidable women who are good characters in their majority,” says the director of programs of Warner Bros. The stressful moments of the show are intertwined with more intimate moments of life, when women testify to the fear that may have animated them at the beginning of their career when they had to sleep alone in their cabin, but also more comical. Sarah will be remembered in particular, 21 years old, crossing the Italian border and taking selfies with male truck drivers, amazed to see a woman doing their job. A situation that does not abrupt the young woman who never loses her smile, despite these somewhat clumsy men who almost feed the clichés.