If you’re a fan of truck-centered YouTube channels, chances are that you’ve stumbled upon the Brazilian social media star Veridiana Henning more than once. Also known as Pakita BR 153, her charisma and gorgeous looks linked to her professionalism behind the wheel and her love for trucking, make her YouTube channel and social media accounts the perfect places to look at if you’re as in love with trucks as she is.
Despite Pakita’s popularity, most of her English-speaking followers only know a thing or two about her personal life, her trucking story, and the amazing things she’s done since achieving worldwide online fame.
So, who is truck driver Veridiana Henning? Stay with us to learn more about her!
Veridiana Henning – better known as Pakita BR 153 – is a social media personality who rose to fame through her YouTube videos in which she shows her trucking adventures. She’s been sharing content since 2018, though she’s been driving trucks on the streets of Brazil for a living for far longer than that.
Being quite famous in her native country, Pakita BR 153 then started expanding her online presence by posting in English and Portuguese, especially on Facebook. This strategy not only helped keep her already existent international audience entertained, but also gained her more fans and sponsorship deals from around the world. This has resulted in an audience of over a million across all social media, which is an incredible feat when compared to other non-English speaking YouTubers in the trucking niche.
That said, making her content accessible to worldwide audiences isn’t the only reason Pakita is so successful. Her charisma, easy-going personality, and gorgeous looks make her content a must-watch for everyone who loves trucks, or simply wants to see someone doing what they love on YouTube.
To keep up with Veridiana’s latest videos and projects, she can be found as Veridiana Henning on Facebook, and as @.pakitabr153 on YouTube and Instagram.
View this post on Instagram
With over 20 years on the road, it’s clear that Pakita BR 153 knows well what she’s doing behind the wheel. She was born in 1979 in Mafra, a city located in the southern state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. As revealed in an introductory video to her channel, she’s of German descent, and her father used to be a trucker as well, at some point teaching her how to drive at a very early age.
Pakita started working as early as 14 years old, taking jobs as an assistant teacher at a school, and later as a model. As she revealed in an interview with the podcaster Sula Miranda in 2022, some of her modeling experiences extended to pageant contests. She also joined a transporting company, but as an office worker.
Although she was always interested in becoming a truck driver, that wish didn’t become a reality until she obtained her license in her 20s, and got a job driving a gas truck. However, she affirmed that this job was over her physical skills because it involved carrying more weight personally than she anticipated. She took the job because it was the only way to obtain experience in the field, but left after falling sick.
After that first job, Pakita obtained another as a trucker, and was given two helpers by the company that hired her, making her job easier by far. She lasted two years in that role before leaving for a company in her native Santa Catarina, where she was trained to drive large trucks.
Though Pakita didn’t last long in that job due to the exhausting conditions, she found another position in a company named Bertolini Transports, which she has featured in her content. It’s worth noting that at some point in her extensive career as a trucker, Veridiana was nicknamed ‘Pakita’ by her fellow truckers. She also gained moderate recognition as one of the few female truckers active in the early 2010s in Brazil, betng featured in specialized sites because of it.
Right before debuting as a YouTuber, Pakita appeared on fellow trucker Sheila Bellaver’s YouTube channel. It was thanks to Bellaver that Pakita found the courage to share her first video in November 2018, slowly but surely gaining an audience among people who are passionate about trucks, and who fell in love with her content and trucking adventures. Nonetheless, Pakita’s charisma and personality are some of the biggest reasons her audience has happily stuck with her for so long.
As far as is known, Pakita BR 153 isn’t romantically involved with anyone. Nonetheless, her preference for keeping most details about her romantic life under wraps hasn’t stopped her audience from learning a couple of details about it.
As she revealed in a women-in-trades feature from 2010, she was married sometime in her early 20s ,but revealed her intentions of now remaining single. Back when she was interviewed, Pakita was 29 years old and her daughter was 11, but the identity of her child’s father remains unknown.
Regarding Pakita’s daughter, she’s well known by her viewers, as she’s appeared in several of her mother’s videos. However, given that the young woman moved to Argentina to attend university, they only see each other once a year, as Pakita revealed in 2018.
Despite the short time that the mother-daughter duo spends together, that hasn’t stopped Pakita’s daughter from helping her mother manage her newly found YouTube fame. Pakita herself revealed in 2022 that it was her daughter who advised her to continue creating content, while ignoring the malicious comments Pakita sometimes received on social media during her early days as a growing online star.
There’s no denying that Pakita BR 153 has set her path not only in trucking, but also as a social media star. Her growth on the internet is incredible, especially considering how her content has overcome language barriers to reach people worldwide.
While Pakita isn’t safe from ill-intended online comments, wanting to look down on her work or criticize her for making a living in a male-dominated field, she’s proven to be stronger than the hate, and has instead opted for making the content that she likes, in the way she prefers the most.
Hopefully, Pakita BR 153 will keep growing on social media and YouTube, filling her audience with joy as she has been doing since her beginning on YouTube and in the trucking industry.
