Iwona Blecharczyk

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Iwona Blecharczyk
Personal information
Born
Iwona Monika Blecharczyk [1]

(1987-09-24) 24 September 1987 (age 36)
Kosztowa, Poland
NationalityPolish
Occupations
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
YouTube information
Also known asTrucking Girl
ChannelsIwona Blecharczyk
Years active2013–present
Genres
Subscribers0.8 million
Total views337 million
Contents are in
100,000 subscribers
Last updated: 5 February 2024

Iwona Blecharczyk (born 24 September 1987) is a Polish lorry driver, transportation enthusiast and YouTuber. In 2013, she established the channel "Trucking Girl" on YouTube and then, in 2019, was awarded the title of "Barbie Shero" as a role model for girls. In 2021 she established an owner-operator transport company, Imagination Transport.

Biography[edit]

She comes from Kosztowa, Subcarpathian Voivodeship.[2] In 2007 she took part in the Miss Polonia beauty contest[3] and reached the finals of Miss Polonia of Podkarpacie in Mielec.[4][5] In 2010, when she graduated from university, Iwona Blecharczyk became a qualified teacher of English as a foreign language.[6] She worked as a minibus driver on the routes from Poland to England,[7] then she worked in the clothing industry.[8] In 2011, she started working as a professional lorry driver.[9]

In 2013, she founded the channel "Trucking Girl" on YouTube: she presents videos taken from her lorry cabin and talks on transport-related topics.[10] The channel is run in two languages – Polish and English. The viewers from Poland account for about half of the audience.[11] Outside Poland, the recordings are statistically most frequently watched in Germany, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.[12] She runs fan pages on Instagram and Facebook, too. In 2017 she was the face of advertising for the EuroShell fleet card.[13]

For six years, Blecharczyk worked in oversize transport, conveying items such as blades for wind turbines.[14] In the period 2017–2018, she travelled to Canada and the United States, where she worked as a driver of specialized lorries, driving along, among others, the Ice Trail and the oil fields.[15][16]

In 2019, Mattel awarded her (as the second Polish woman after Martyna Wojciechowska)[17] the title of Barbie Shero.[18][19] She has become the ambassador for the Volvo Trucks company.[20]

She was invited to participate as a speaker at a TEDx conference[21] and has worked as a volunteer driver.[22] In Poland, Discovery Channel chose Blecharczyk to present the TV series Przygody truckerki (Trucker woman's adventures).[23][24][25]

Articles on Blecharczyk have appeared in, among others, (in German) weekly Die Zeit,[26] Der Spiegel Panorama,[27] (in French) Canadian daily La Presse from Montreal,[28] the website metropolitaine.fr from Bordeaux,[29] and (in Hungarian) the website on transport (vezess.hu)[30]

In 2020, Muza S.A. published a 320-page book by Blecharczyk titled Trucking girl. 70-metrową ciężarówką przez świat (en: Trucking girl. With a 70-meter truck through the world) (ISBN 978-83-287-1519-6), on topics similar to her internet activities.

In 2021, Blecharczyk established her company Imagination Transport,[14] driving her Volvo FH13 truck-and-trailer set.[31] In 2023 the company expanded into oversize transport using a Volvo FH16 and a Goldhofer seven-axle semi-low-loader trailer.[32]

References[edit]

  1. ^ JEDZIEMY DO NORWEGII!! WE ARE GOING TO NORWAY!!, event occurs at 21:34, retrieved 2023-02-06
  2. ^ "32-letnia Iwona Blecharczyk, kierowca tira doczekała się własnej Barbie". Radio ZET (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-01-24. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  3. ^ "Seksowna Polka miała być miss, a została kierowcą tira! Iwona Blecharczyk, czyli blond trucking girl". auto.dziennik.pl (in Polish). 26 September 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Kto zostanie Miss?" (in Polish). 22 June 2007.
  5. ^ "Walczyły najpiękniejsze!" (in Polish). 25 June 2007.
  6. ^ "Ku wolności – kobiety za kierownicą" (in Polish). 24 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Trucking girl z Dubiecka ciężarówką przemierza Europę, Kanadę i Amerykę" (in Polish).
  8. ^ "Iwona Blecharczyk - nasza Barbie Shero, która jeździ 63-tonową ciężarówką" (in Polish). 18 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Kabina ciężarówki zamiast pokoju nauczycielskiego. "Ja chcę po prostu jeździć"" (in Polish).
  10. ^ "Iwona Blecharczyk - YouTube". YouTube (in Polish).
  11. ^ "Iwona nagrywa filmy o swojej pracy. Jest... Kierowcą TIR-a. "Trzeba uważać podczas snu, bo mogą wpuścić gaz przez zamek"" (in Polish).
  12. ^ "Drobna kobieta za kierownicą wielkiej ciężarówki. Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk | Obcasy.pl Drobna kobieta za kierownicą wielkiej ciężarówki. Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk" (in Polish). 3 February 2021.
  13. ^ "Vlogerka Iwona Blecharczyk reklamuje karty flotowe euroShell". www.wirtualnemedia.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  14. ^ a b "About us". IMAGINATION Iwona Blecharczyk. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  15. ^ "Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk, Trucking Girl - tylko transport mnie tak jara :: truck.pl". TruckExpo (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  16. ^ "Delikatna kobieta, która prowadzi po świecie najcięższe ciężarówki. Pochodząca z okolic Przemyśla Iwona Blecharczyk wydała książkę" (in Polish). 22 October 2020.
  17. ^ "Barbie Shero: Oto wyjątkowe kobiety w roli lalek-bohaterek od firmy Mattel. Wśród nich Martyna Wojciechowska" (in Polish). 27 March 2018.
  18. ^ "Iwona Blecharczyk - nasza Barbie Shero, która jeździ 63-tonową ciężarówką". 18 June 2021.
  19. ^ "Hammer-throwing champ joins distinguished list of 'inspirational women' after being turned into Shero Barbie doll". www.thefirstnews.com. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  20. ^ "Iwona Blecharczyk Trucking Girl została ambasadorką Volvo Trucks! | Motocaina.pl". www.motocaina.pl (in Polish). 2021-05-28. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  21. ^ "Rzuciła wszystko i kieruje TIRem: Iwona Blecharczyk na TEDx Warsaw" (in Polish).
  22. ^ Rivero, Nicolás (2022-03-16). "A fleet of volunteer truckers is keeping aid flowing into Ukraine". Quartz. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  23. ^ "Przygody truckerki - odcinek 1 - sezon 1 - streszczenie odcinka - Telemagazyn.pl". www.telemagazyn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  24. ^ "Przygody truckerki". www.discoverychannel.pl (in Polish). 16 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  25. ^ WPROST.pl; Frindt, Magdalena (2020-11-03). ""Wybór wcale nie był trudny". Iwona Blecharczyk odsłania kulisy pracy "Trucking girl"". Wprost (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  26. ^ Wurfel, Carolin (2019-05-13). "ZEIT ONLINE". www.zeit.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  27. ^ "Das Ende einer Männerbastion: Frauen im Riesentruck – »Arte Re:«-Reportage von SPIEGEL TV". Der Spiegel (in German). 23 December 2021.
  28. ^ "Société | À 60 ans, Barbie n'est pas prête à prendre sa retraite". La Presse (in French). 8 April 2019.
  29. ^ "Barbie célèbre les femmes inspirantes de notre monde pour ses 60 ans" (in French). 8 March 2019.
  30. ^ "Kamionsofőrök biztonságát szolgálja ez a fejlesztés". Vezess (in Hungarian). 2022-07-09. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  31. ^ "Iwona Blecharczyk wins the Volvo Trucking Adventure". Volvo Trucks. 28 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  32. ^ "Goldhofer Share Success with Volvo Trucks at NordBau 2023". Heavy Lift News. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-26.

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