Biography
Blecharczyk 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]
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