Business steps as much as honor truckers

Organizations throughout the provision chain are stepping as much as honor the nation’s truck drivers throughout this 12 months’s Nationwide Truck Driver Appreciation Week, which runs by means of this Saturday, September 17.

The week celebrates the nation’s 3.6 million skilled truck drivers and goals to lift consciousness of the very important function they play in conserving provide chains working and highways protected, in accordance with the American Trucking Associations (ATA).

“Individuals in all fifty states have taken extraordinary steps to point out their appreciation for the vital work that skilled truck drivers have completed as we navigate our manner by means of the coronavirus pandemic,” ATA mentioned in an announcement on its web site. “From kids passing out lunches, to ‘I Coronary heart Truck’ indicators throughout America’s highways, the general public has taken discover of the important function truck [drivers play] of their lives. This week is a strategy to present appreciation to the three.6 million skilled women and men who not solely ship our items safely, securely, and on time, but in addition maintain our highways protected.”

Logistics firms are thanking truckers for his or her work in a wide range of methods, together with with native celebrations in addition to with raffles and different prize giveaways. Logistics and transportation firm C.H. Robinson, as an example, launched a thanks marketing campaign that features $100,000 in prizes for truck drivers in recognition of the 100,000 miles, on common, they journey annually. As a part of that effort, the corporate is donating $5–as much as $25,000–for each thanks message to truckers posted utilizing #ThanksForEverythingLiterally on Fb, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. The cash will go to St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund, which helps truck drivers in want.

Intermodal drayage and logistics options supplier ContainerPort Group (CPG) will host celebrations and prize giveaways at its 26 terminals nationwide, and can finish the week with two grand prize raffles: one proprietor operator will win a 2022 Harley-Davidson Heritage Basic bike and one other will win $5,000 towards a trip of their alternative. “That is our favourite week of the 12 months,” CPG President Joey Palmer mentioned in a press launch. “We take displaying our appreciation for our fleet significantly by going above and past the conventional, common gratitude we present our drivers. We would like them to know with out a shadow of doubt that ContainerPort is nothing with out our fleet. We hope the giveaways and actions we have now deliberate for the week make everybody really feel appreciated.”