Girl helps make leap from trucker to social media sensation, entrepreneur

(WGHP) — Clarissa Rankin is conquering a man’s planet. But make no blunder, she’s doing it her way.

“We learn this truck a minor bit in another way from men,” states Clarissa about the way she drives her freight truck. “We’re incredibly gentle. Females are really caressing to the steering wheel.”

She arrives from a long line of people in transportation. Her grandmother ran – how would we best describe this? Some thing of an, “unlicensed taxi support,” in the Myrtle Beach front area, practically a hundred several years back. That concept of taking persons or factors has been in her spouse and children at any time given that. But it is not in which Clarissa commenced her experienced existence.

“I had my bachelors in legal justice and I was doing the job in the jail process and the school process,” she suggests. “That doggone prison method was a headache but I preferred to adhere to my degree and I needed to end offenders from reoffending.”

But not only was she not making significantly revenue, but she also experienced $50,000 in scholar loans to repay. It was time to make a transform and trucking appeared to be the ideal offer.

“You can make great money. My 1st yr I was around, I manufactured about $50,000,” states Clarissa. “That was just driving – firm driver – and that was like just going warehouse to warehouse and then, following that, it was more than. I manufactured above $130,000,” as a trucker.

Then, she identified social media. Properly, she understood about social media – she was posting items on YouTube and Instagram very significantly each working day but had up coming to no followers.

“I was doing YouTube for yrs and I was not acquiring witnessed but I didn’t treatment,” she says. “I was conversing to two individuals even although I didn’t treatment and I was likely to give up. I was like, ‘Ugh, I just can’t preserve offering my time to these, not currently being observed, what am I performing this for?’ And the day I was heading to give up, my partner stated, ‘Hey, publish on this,’ and I posted on TikTok. And as shortly as I posted on TikTok, as shortly as I posted, it went viral.”

She now has much more than a million-and-a-50 % followers who love the material she posts which can be everywhere from insightful to irreverent.

“Now I make much more with social…