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Stagecoach West Scotland will for the first time, run an all-female driver bus route in Ayrshire on Tuesday 8th<\/sup> March to mark International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) to promote career opportunities for females within the bus industry and women\u2019s progress in conquering traditionally male-dominated professions.<\/p>\n

The busy Service 3 route between Onthank and Shortlees in Kilmarnock, will be operated by female drivers for the day driving Stagecoach\u2019s new 100%, zero emission buses.<\/p>\n

Talking about her career with Stagecoach West Scotland, Gillian Hunter said “Working as a bus driver gave me a better work life balance. I had previously worked in the catering industry with long and hectic hours. While I was working as a bus driver with a rota system, I was able to plan and spend quality time with my family.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to become one of West Scotland\u2019s first female Driving Instructors and I love training our new recruits and being able to share my knowledge and passion for the industry on to them<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stagecoach West Scotland has a history of empowering women, from award winning female engineering apprentices, career progression and trade up schemes.<\/p>\n

Led by Fiona Doherty, Managing Director of Stagecoach West Scotland, she commented: \u201cThe bus industry offers a huge variety of careers from apprenticeships in engineering, bus drivers through to senior management roles.\u00a0 We are an industry leader in training, development, and flexibility<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiona continued: \u201cI would like to thank our brilliant all-female team on Service 3 today, we hope that seeing them out in force today encourages more women to consider a career in the bus industry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAs well as investing in our workforce, we are investing more than \u00a320million across Scotland with the introduction of a further 46 fully electric buses, as part of the drive to improve air quality and support the Scottish Governments environmental targets. Now is the time to get in touch and see what career opportunity there for you with us!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If you would like to discuss your communications needs, you can reach our friendly team on\u00a0+44 (0) 141 548 5191<\/strong>\u00a0or send us an\u00a0email<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find out more about what we do on the\u00a0Services<\/a>\u00a0page and explore our\u00a0Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stagecoach West Scotland will for the first time, run an all-female driver bus route in Ayrshire on Tuesday 8th March to mark International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) to promote career opportunities for females within the bus industry and women\u2019s progress in conquering traditionally male-dominated professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[222],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStagecoach Marks International Women's Day with first all female driver route in Ayrshire - Spreng Thomson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sprengthomson.com\/stagecoach-marks-international-womens-day-with-first-all-female-driver-route-in-ayrshire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stagecoach Marks International Women's Day with first all female driver route in Ayrshire - 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