An Oosterhout Country Ballad for the Women Who Make up 4% of Europe’s Truck Drivers
Truck Driver Lady is a traditional country ballad that rolls along at an easy, steady pace of about 100 beats per minute, written as a tribute to the women who drive trucks for a living. It comes from A & E Signature Productions, the independent music production company of Oosterhout producer Edwin Schieveld. The timing is apt, because Europe’s hauliers are short of drivers and still find very few women among them.
A & E Signature Productions has its coverage history collected on its artist profile. Truck Driver Lady came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Cue it up, then keep reading for the numbers behind the song.
Why a Traditional Country Song About Women Truckers Lands as Europe Runs Short of Drivers
Start with the numbers, because they explain why this song feels timely. At the end of June 2026, IRU, the world road transport organisation, published its latest research on the driver shortage. Its 2025 survey found around 502,000 truck driver jobs unfilled across Europe. That is a shortage rate of 13%, one of the highest of the 18 markets it measured.
The same research shows who is missing from the cab. Women account for only around 4% of European truck drivers, even though they tend to enter the job younger than men do. Meanwhile, about one in five of Europe’s drivers is expected to retire within five years. That is why IRU argues that easier access to training, better facilities and a more modern image for the profession could open it up to far more people.
The Dutch Figures Are Rising, Slowly
The picture in the Netherlands, where the song was made, is only a little brighter. According to STL, the Dutch transport and logistics sector institute, just over 5% of the sector’s drivers were women in the second quarter of 2025. That share is growing, and more women are joining than leaving. Even so, it still means roughly one driver in twenty.
Songs rarely start from a statistic. This one comes close, though. The note beneath its YouTube video opens with how few women drive trucks around the world, then dedicates the song to all of them, for doing demanding and sometimes dangerous work.
Truck Driver Lady Puts a Woman in the Driver’s Seat Where Eighties Trucking Hits Kept Her at Home
Truck Driver Lady first appeared on YouTube on 25 January 2026, as track twelve of the Mixed Genres Only collection. It runs for three minutes and 47 seconds, and by late September it had passed 18,600 views. Edwin Schieveld wrote and produced it. The company’s own shop files it as country trucker music, with the artist credit reading Edwin Schieveld and Brittany Ray.
The arrangement stays close to classic country, with warm instrumentation that carries the story instead of competing with it. The tempo matters here too. At about 100 beats per minute, the song moves like a road song rather than a dance-floor one, steady enough to keep time with the miles.
What the Song Answers in the Trucking Tradition
Trucking songs are one of country music’s oldest story forms. However, the best-known ones mostly put a man behind the wheel. Take Kathy Mattea and Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses, a No. 1 on the US and Canadian country charts in 1988, which Rolling Stone ranked among its 200 greatest country songs in 2024. It follows Charlie, a driver retiring after thirty years so that he can spend more time with his wife. In other words, she is the destination, waiting at the end of the road.
Alabama told a similar story from the family’s side on Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler). Released in January 1984, it became the band’s 12th straight No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart. In the song, a mother and three children wait at home for news after the father’s truck is found jackknifed in an Illinois blizzard.
Truck Driver Lady answers both records by moving the woman out of the house and into the cab. It keeps the ballad form and the sense of tribute those songs share. Still, it points that respect at the person doing the driving. For a genre this attached to its traditions, that is a small change on paper and a real one for the women it describes.
Who Truck Driver Lady Is For
The first audience is anyone raised on country radio’s truck songs, from Mattea’s gentle countdown to Alabama’s family prayer. Second, drivers themselves, and above all the women among them, who seldom hear their own job at the centre of a country song.
There is a practical side, too. The company sells a content creator licence for the track, covering YouTube monetisation, vlogs, podcasts and livestreams. So a driver who films their routes can put the song under their own footage. The MP3 costs €3.95 on the A & E Signature Productions website, and the creator licence costs €9.95.
Play it on a long drive first. Then go back to Mattea and Alabama, and listen for how much the view from the cab has changed.
GetMusic.News’s curator team:
“What we like most is how plainly it treats its subject. A song called Truck Driver Lady could easily have been played for a laugh, and instead it is a straight country ballad, which is how the genre has always honoured the people it respects.”
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