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Marge Bailey
Marge Bailey is the founder and CEO of 30 trucking job referral web sites. Her major duties are webmaster/tech support, SEO and job ad composition. The name of her company encapsulates the definition of her network, DriverFinder Net [DFN]. Established in 1997 and launched online officially in Feb of 1998 with her first site, TruckinJobs.com, DFN is a leading network of trucking job referral sites that help thousands of truck drivers and diesel mechanics every year find a good company for which they can work, make a good living and realize their career goals.
Dating back almost 3 decades Marge has been involved with the trucking industry. She was married to an owner operator and learned the 'ropes' as a team driver from 1980 to 1983. When she left the truck and the marriage, she opened a commercial sign shop 10 minutes out of Memphis TN and within 3 years, she was lettering trucks and trailers for large and small carriers in a 90 mile radius of her Southaven MS shop which included
MS Carriers, J E Phillips, Inc and W E Graham Transport. To her knowledge, she was the only female lettering large trucks and trailers in the state, maybe in the entire US. Commercial Sign work was and is predominantly a male oriented occupation.One of Marge's uncles owned a small trucking company and she had always been fascinated with the industry since a young girl and knew that someday she would find her place in trucking. She worked as a J B Hunt recruiter from May 1996 to Sept 1997. That experience led her to starting her online job referral service for carriers and drivers, eventually including CDL training schools [1999], diesel mechanics [2002], and women in trucking, LadyTruckDrivers.com, launched in 2000.
Prior to the trucking industry Marge attended Tennessee Temple University from 1970 to 1973 majoring in fine arts. Over the course of 5 years she owned and operated three private teaching studios located in 2 states. She taught one year prior to opening her own studios at Riverside Baptist school in Clarksdale, MS, grades K-9 [not associated with her church]. Some of her portrait work and a number of Elvis portraits in oil on canvas and 100's of pencil and charcoal sketches of Elvis span the globe. The Elvis portraits gained her some notoriety as a portraitist leading to several television appearances and news articles. She was then married to James Banton, a Baptist minister and signed her work as MBanton.
Marge has met many wonderful people in trucking over the last 30 years which includes truck drivers, their families and many trucking companies who have utilized her online service to find the talent they need to fill their trucks. She met Ellen Voie several years ago at the Mid America Truck Show when Ellen was Executive Director of Trucker Buddy International, Inc. Today they are working together to help form Women in Trucking.
Because of LadyTruckDrivers.com [LTD], Marge has had numerous articles written about her and several women truckers who participate in the LTD message forum. Some of the forum lady members also have had their story published in various magazines and newspapers. Too numerous to list here the publications included RedBook and recently the Gannett Group, a US media group which is considered the largest North American newspaper publisher in terms of circulation. Marge is contacted every year by the print media and TV networks like ABC and the Oxygen Network to help them find lady truck drivers who will appear on special national TV programs targeting trucking and the women who work in the industry. Two lady truckers have appeared on television shows, one, a prime time special on ABC, [2003], the other a new game show on the Oxygen Network launched in 2005 which Oprah Winfrey is co-founder of the cable network.The Marge @ Large segment of the FreeWheelin' Talk Radio Show is another result of the lady truck driver site. The talk radio program airs on Sirius satellite radio every Wednesday afternoon from 1 to 2 pm ET on channel 147 hosted by Meredith Ochs and Chris T. Marge encourages everyone to listen and if possible, to call in and discuss women's accomplishments and challenges in a male dominated industry, trucking.
Call Line: 1.888.876.2336.
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