“I’m a Girl”: 36-Year-Old Lady Resigns Her Teaching Job and Becomes Truck Driver

Clarissa Rankin resigned from her teaching job and became a truck driver, making a whopping sum of ₦‎64 million annual income. 

The lady said people are surprised any time they see her driving heavy-duty trucks. She has become a celebrity as she has over 1.8 million followers on TikTok and 105k fans on Instagram as of Tuesday, December 20.

She has turned truck driving into an admirable profession and become a celebrity. Clarissa originally studied criminal justice and initially took up a job as a teacher earning ₦‎847 thousand annually.

But she turned to truck driving when the income that came from her teaching job could not support her family.

Initially, when she started driving trucks, she earned an annual income of ₦‎22 million. Her income increased to ₦‎64 million annually when she started her own company, JC Rankins Transport.

Clarissa has said people are always surprised when they see her behind the wheels of her massive truck.

She told CNBC:

“People always have this image in their mind of a truck driver being a man with a big old stomach, big old beard and wearing overalls. 

I love to get that expression on people’s faces like, “Can you really drive that?” And I’m like, “Yes, I got this honey.”

Apart from her truck driving business, she makes an additional ₦‎16 million in income from TikTok, which has close to 2 million followers.

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Clarissa is 36 and lives with her husband and children in Charlotte, North Carolina.