In South Carolina, freight is booming. But we need more truck drivers to support it.
At about 5:30 a.m., six days a week, Lola Salas pulls out of the truck yard for her first trip of the day.
With her dashboard decorated by a string of orange flowers, Salas keeps her space clean, “more clean than you’ll find any other truck,” she said, and greets every clerk and vehicle operator at the Port of Charleston with more enthusiasm than most can muster by mid-day.
Lola Salas loves her job.
Though she’s been in the Charleston area for about four years, as a driver with Charleston company Hunter Transportation, Salas has been a truck driver 23 years. She’s known she wanted to do it for even longer — since age 8.
