The Women In Trucking Association is asking transportation companies across the industry to participate in a new data collection effort that will shape the next edition of the WIT Index, a widely used benchmark tracking women’s participation in trucking and related sectors.
WIT is encouraging eligible companies to complete a confidential survey that gathers workforce data on women employed in a range of roles, including leadership, operational, and professional driving positions. The information collected will be used to produce the 2026–27 WIT Index, which is published every two years.
What the WIT Index measures
The WIT Index serves as an industry barometer that measures and tracks the percentage of women working in key transportation roles. Those roles include corporate management, functional positions, and professional truck drivers holding commercial driver’s licenses.
WIT said the updated Index will continue to provide a consistent way for the industry to evaluate progress and identify long-term workforce trends related to women’s participation.
Who is invited to participate
The association is inviting a broad range of transportation organizations to submit data, including:
- For-hire trucking companies
- Private fleets
- Transportation intermediaries
- Railroads
- Ocean carriers
- Equipment manufacturers
- Technology companies
Companies are asked to report the percentage of women employed in various workforce categories. WIT emphasized that all data will be kept strictly confidential and reported only as aggregated totals.
An authorized company representative must complete survey submissions.
Survey timeline and participation benefits
The survey is currently live and will remain open through April 17, 2026. Companies can submit their data online at womenintrucking.org/index.
Organizations that participate will receive an executive summary of the 2026–27 WIT Index at no cost. WIT said the summary allows companies to benchmark their own hiring and talent management practices involving women against broader industry data.
Why the data matters
WIT President and CEO Jennifer Hedrick said the Index plays a critical role in providing reliable, data-driven insight into workforce participation trends.
“Monitoring women’s involvement in a male-populated industry like transportation is critical so that statistically valid data can be used to evaluate progress made in this area,” said Jennifer Hedrick, CAE, president and CEO of WIT. “The association created the WIT Index in 2016 to monitor the industry’s progress in women’s involvement among key roles, including corporate leaders and supervisors, technicians, safety directors, human resources, dispatchers, and professional truck drivers.”
Highlights from the most recent WIT Index
The most recent 2024–25 WIT Index showed a notable presence of women in leadership and governance roles across the industry.
According to WIT’s findings:
- About 28% of C-suite and executive positions were held by women
- 34.5% of supervisory leadership roles were held by women
- 29.5% of board of director positions were held by women
For the first time, the 2024–25 Index also reported the percentage of professional truck drivers with CDLs who are women, segmented by company size.
Women CDL driver representation by company size
The data showed variations based on workforce size:
- Micro and small companies with fewer than 500 employees reported that 12.5% of their CDL-holding professional drivers were women
- Medium and large enterprises with 500 to 4,999 employees reported that approximately 10.5% of their CDL driver workforce was women
- Major enterprises with more than 5,000 employees reported that approximately 7% of their CDL driver population was women
WIT said collecting updated data in the current survey cycle will help the industry better understand how these figures are shifting over time and where additional focus may be needed.
The association encourages eligible companies to participate to ensure the next WIT Index reflects a comprehensive and accurate snapshot of today’s transportation workforce.
Source: Truckers News
