More women getting behind the wheel as trucking industry seeks drivers

Cornilla Johnson, a student truck driver at All Pro Truck School, stands next to training rigs outside Morton College in Cicero earlier this month. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

In 2008, Maggie Selagea and her husband lost their construction business, worth millions, to the economic meltdown.

“When the economy crashed, we fell flat on our face,” Selagea said. She and her husband realized they needed to find “something that was not going to be affected so much by the economy.”