Don’t go for her slightly built body and soft voice, she’s a lot more than that. Yogita Raghuvanshi was a lawyer, is the single mother of two and a confident truck driver. Yogita (47) is from Bhopal and a mother of a son and daughter. She was a bright student and has her degree in Law and Commerce. Her life took a sudden turn when her husband passed away 16 years ago in a road accident, leaving behind their two children.
Initially, she worked as a legal assistant for a month but the remuneration wasn’t enough to fund her children’s education. Yogita felt the need to do something substantial to survive. It was then that she decided to get into truck driving. The tragedy-struck incident changed her life completely, but it also made her confident, otherwise it wasn’t possible for someone who didn’t even know how to drive to take over the wheel. Her husband ran a transport business and owned three trucks. This seemed to be an opportunity to her for doing something meaningful that also pays.
She travels alone in her massive 14-wheeler truck. Her journey wasn’t easy initially but that didn’t stop her. After a decade and a half now, Yogita lives a truck driver’s life making long inter-state trips; sleeping and cooking inside her vehicle and using public toilets. It was necessity that drew her to this profession, she says.
Yashika, her daughter, is now an engineer and her son Yashwin, is pursuing higher studies.
