Iwona Blecharczyk Explained
Iwona Blecharczyk |
Birth Name: | Iwona Monika Blecharczyk |
Birth Date: | 1987 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Kosztowa, Poland |
Nationality: | Polish |
Pseudonym: | Trucking Girl |
Channels: | Iwona Blecharczyk |
Years Active: | 2013–present |
Subscribers: | 1 million |
Views: | 432 million |
Silver Button: | y |
Stats Update: | 14 June 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
She comes from Kosztowa, Subcarpathian Voivodeship.[1] In 2007 she took part in the Miss Polonia beauty contest[2] and reached the finals of Miss Polonia of Podkarpacie in Mielec.[3] [4] In 2010, when she graduated from university, Iwona Blecharczyk became a qualified teacher of English as a foreign language.[5] She worked as a minibus driver on the routes from Poland to England,[6] then she worked in the clothing industry.[7] In 2011, she started working as a professional lorry driver.[8]
In 2013, she founded the channel "Trucking Girl" on YouTube: she presents videos taken from her lorry cabin and talks on transport-related topics.[9] The channel is run in two languages – Polish and English. The viewers from Poland account for about half of the audience.[10] Outside Poland, the recordings are statistically most frequently watched in Germany, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.[11] She runs fan pages on Instagram and Facebook, too. In 2017 she was the face of advertising for the EuroShell fleet card.[12]
For six years, Blecharczyk worked in oversize transport, conveying items such as blades for wind turbines.[13] 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.[14] [15]
In 2019, Mattel awarded her (as the second Polish woman after Martyna Wojciechowska)[16] the title of Barbie Shero.[17] [18] She has become the ambassador for the Volvo Trucks company.[19]
She was invited to participate as a speaker at a TEDx conference[20] and has worked as a volunteer driver.[21] In Poland, Discovery Channel chose Blecharczyk to present the TV series Przygody truckerki (Trucker woman's adventures).[22] [23] [24]
Articles on Blecharczyk have appeared in, among others, (in German) weekly Die Zeit,[25] Der Spiegel Panorama,[26] (in French) Canadian daily La Presse from Montreal,[27] the website metropolitaine.fr from Bordeaux,[28] and (in Hungarian) the website on transport (vezess.hu)[29]
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), on topics similar to her internet activities.
In 2021, Blecharczyk established her company Imagination Transport, driving her Volvo FH13 truck-and-trailer set.[30] In 2023 the company expanded into oversize transport using a Volvo FH16 and a Goldhofer seven-axle semi-low-loader trailer.[31]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 32-letnia Iwona Blecharczyk, kierowca tira doczekała się własnej Barbie . dead . Radio ZET . pl . 2022-02-06 . 2022-01-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220124143337/https://www.radiozet.pl/Styl-zycia/32-letnia-Iwona-Blecharczyk-kierowca-tira-doczekala-sie-wlasnej-Barbie .
- Web site: 26 September 2013 . Seksowna Polka miała być miss, a została kierowcą tira! Iwona Blecharczyk, czyli blond trucking girl . 16 July 2022 . auto.dziennik.pl . pl.
- Web site: 22 June 2007 . Kto zostanie Miss? . pl.
- Web site: 25 June 2007 . Walczyły najpiękniejsze! . pl.
- Web site: 24 May 2021 . Ku wolności – kobiety za kierownicą . pl.
- Web site: Trucking girl z Dubiecka ciężarówką przemierza Europę, Kanadę i Amerykę . 23 January 2019 . pl.
- Web site: 18 June 2021 . Iwona Blecharczyk - nasza Barbie Shero, która jeździ 63-tonową ciężarówką . pl.
- Web site: Kabina ciężarówki zamiast pokoju nauczycielskiego. "Ja chcę po prostu jeździć" . pl.
- Web site: Iwona Blecharczyk - YouTube . . pl.
- Web site: Iwona nagrywa filmy o swojej pracy. Jest... Kierowcą TIR-a. "Trzeba uważać podczas snu, bo mogą wpuścić gaz przez zamek" . pl.
- Web site: 3 February 2021 . Drobna kobieta za kierownicą wielkiej ciężarówki. Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk | Obcasy.pl Drobna kobieta za kierownicą wielkiej ciężarówki. Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk . pl.
- Web site: Vlogerka Iwona Blecharczyk reklamuje karty flotowe euroShell . 2022-07-15 . www.wirtualnemedia.pl . pl.
- Web site: About us . 2023-12-26 . IMAGINATION Iwona Blecharczyk . en-US.
- Web site: Rozmowa z Iwoną Blecharczyk, Trucking Girl - tylko transport mnie tak jara :: truck.pl . 2022-09-05 . TruckExpo . pl.
- Web site: 22 October 2020 . Delikatna kobieta, która prowadzi po świecie najcięższe ciężarówki. Pochodząca z okolic Przemyśla Iwona Blecharczyk wydała książkę . pl.
- Web site: 27 March 2018 . Barbie Shero: Oto wyjątkowe kobiety w roli lalek-bohaterek od firmy Mattel. Wśród nich Martyna Wojciechowska . pl.
- Web site: Iwona Blecharczyk - nasza Barbie Shero, która jeździ 63-tonową ciężarówką. 18 June 2021.
- Web site: Hammer-throwing champ joins distinguished list of 'inspirational women' after being turned into Shero Barbie doll . 2022-07-15 . www.thefirstnews.com . en.
- Web site: 2021-05-28 . Iwona Blecharczyk Trucking Girl została ambasadorką Volvo Trucks! Motocaina.pl . 2022-07-14 . www.motocaina.pl . pl-PL.
- Web site: Rzuciła wszystko i kieruje TIRem: Iwona Blecharczyk na TEDx Warsaw . pl.
- Web site: Rivero . Nicolás . 2022-03-16 . A fleet of volunteer truckers is keeping aid flowing into Ukraine . 2022-07-14 . Quartz . en.
- Web site: Przygody truckerki - odcinek 1 - sezon 1 - streszczenie odcinka - Telemagazyn.pl . 2022-07-14 . www.telemagazyn.pl . pl.
- Web site: Przygody truckerki . 2022-07-14 . www.discoverychannel.pl . 16 October 2020 . pl.
- Web site: WPROST.pl . Frindt . Magdalena . 2020-11-03 . "Wybór wcale nie był trudny". Iwona Blecharczyk odsłania kulisy pracy "Trucking girl" . 2022-07-15 . Wprost . pl.
- News: Wurfel . Carolin . 2019-05-13 . ZEIT ONLINE . 2022-07-15 . Die Zeit . de.
- News: 23 December 2021 . Das Ende einer Männerbastion: Frauen im Riesentruck – »Arte Re:«-Reportage von SPIEGEL TV . de . Der Spiegel .
- News: 8 April 2019 . Société | À 60 ans, Barbie n'est pas prête à prendre sa retraite . La Presse . fr.
- Web site: 8 March 2019 . Barbie célèbre les femmes inspirantes de notre monde pour ses 60 ans . fr.
- Web site: 2022-07-09 . Kamionsofőrök biztonságát szolgálja ez a fejlesztés . 2022-07-14 . Vezess . hu.
- Web site: 28 December 2022 . Iwona Blecharczyk wins the Volvo Trucking Adventure . 2023-12-26 . Volvo Trucks . en.
- Web site: 21 September 2023 . Goldhofer Share Success with Volvo Trucks at NordBau 2023 . 2023-12-26 . Heavy Lift News.