The wheels turned faster than expected for Antionette Campbell, a woman whose career in a male-dominated sphere accelerated beyond expectations.
After three years as a bus driver at NZ Bus – New Zealand’s biggest operator of urban bus services – Campbell was offered the opportunity to train to become an instructor, and she jumped at the chance.
“When I was a trainee bus operator, I told my husband – who’s also a bus driver – that one day I’d like to be an instructor at the training school. I pretty much put it down as a five-year plan,” says Campbell, based out of NZ Bus’s North Shore depot in Auckland.
The five-year plan was completed way ahead of schedule for Campbell, who not only became a certified instructor in 2020 but is now also a driving assessor – the first woman to hold the position in NZ Bus’s 25 years of operation and an example (published on International Women’s Day) of what women can achieve…see full article.
