Celebrating Pride in the Transportation Industry!

During Pride month, communities come together to celebrate and commemorate the pride in their identities. Pride month is celebrated in June across the United States and represents an important time of liberation in our country. This is a great time to celebrate LGBTQ+ professionals throughout our industry as we look at some of those who were trailblazers in their time.

Shelli Lichti
Founder at LGBT Truckers Inc.
Lichti founded the trucking industry’s largest online support group for LGBT Truckers in 2008 in support of a fellow LGBT community member who had a poor experience. Today, the online group has over 6,000 members and offers support and a safe space for truckers to talk about the discrimination they face in the industry

Nic Richelle & Carla Grimsley
Driving Team at Hyfield Trucking LLC.
Richelle and Grimsley are a married couple who drive together for Hyfield Trucking LLC. They have a popular YouTube channel with over 40,0000 subscribers, where they share their experiences on the road as black LGBT women. Richelle and Grimsley’s mission is to push past their own limiting beliefs and inspire others along the way.

Anne Balay
Truck Driver & Author
Balay is a former professor turned truck driver. She turned to driving after leaving academia in hopes of securing steady employment. Her journey to driving and experiences on the road inspired her most recent book, Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers. The book details that LGBTQ+ truck drivers are not new to the industry, but their visibility and representation are rising.