In an article in the Daily Telegraph, it revealed that women are surprisingly better truck drivers than men.

At the Cadia Hill Gold Mine near Orange, women truck drivers are being saluted for their good work.

“We’ve found that women tend to be more cautious, shall we say, when operating the trucks; they are softer on the equipment,” Mining manager Jason Grace says. 

“These trucks are very expensive and it is possible to over-rev them and we find the women are a bit more cautious,” he further added. 

As well as saving the company money on exceedingly expensive mechanical repairs up to $30,000, the female operators - who earn from $70,000 a year right up to six-figure incomes - have turned out to be quite expert at reversing, which may come as a surprise to some men.