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Business

Iowa 80 Truckstop raises awareness on human trafficking

Iowa 80 Truckstop has joined forces with Truckers Against Trafficking to raise awareness about human trafficking among professional drivers and expand its employee training program with regard to this issue. Professional drivers are encouraged to pick up a TAT wallet card at Iowa 80 Truckstop, which provides red flags to look for if trafficking is […]

June 14, 2012

Channel 19

‘7 deadly lot lizards’ infographic raises image questions

A satirical infographic detailing the so-called “7 Deadly Lot Lizards” from the folks at Trucker to Trucker.com has me pondering the dynamics that make just this sort of thing possible. I won’t repost it here, but you can take a look at it on their site (or click through the truncated thumbnail at right). Among […]

June 7, 2012

Business

Minnesota trucking group joins trafficking advocacy

The Minnesota Trucking Association has partnered with Truckers Against Trafficking to thwart illegal sale of children and youths for the sex trade industry, association chair Joyce Brenny says. “Because MTA members travel areas where human trafficking occurs, they are in a unique position to combat the problem,” Brenny says. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates […]

April 10, 2012

Voices

Roadside Attractions

Stowaways are caught, Overdrive has a young fan, how to prevent joint pain, freight rates are holding and other industry oddities and news items are featured along with Truck Gallery.

January 1, 2012

Channel 19

FCC continues hold on ‘Trucker TV’ exemption

Since 2004, missing persons advocate Marc Klaas of the Klaas Kids Foundation has been part of an effort by a company associated with Flying J travel plazas to get an FCC exemption to establish a low-power broadcasting operation at truck stops. The emphasis of the operation would be not only on entertainment but, most importantly […]

November 7, 2011

Channel 19

Truckers Against Trafficking: A cause we can all get behind

Truckers News Editor Randy Grider says it best in his column in this month’s issue, titled “Your most important call” in reference to the Truckers Against Trafficking national hotline number for reporting incidents of child sex trafficking witnessed on the nation’s highways. “Each year in this country,” Grider writes, “tens of thousands of kids are […]

November 4, 2011

Voices

Roadside Attractions

An outlaw is riding into cowboy country, there’s a new dame on the Dalton, tornadoes take down some rigs, truckers say not to human freight and other industry news items are featured.

July 1, 2011

Channel 19

Transport for Christ truck rally this Fri-Sat

The Transport for Christ organization’s efforts to connect with and spread the good news to and of the trucking industry extends far beyond their mobile chapels and efforts to unite drivers in the fight against humna trafficking, which I wrote about several weeks ago. They’re rewarding the greater community of drivers and owner-operators again this […]

June 13, 2011

Channel 19

Mexico’s big human-smuggling bust; Truckers Against Trafficking makes industry headway

Technology makes a dent As this photo, released by the Mexican state of Chiapas and making news around the nation yesterday, makes abundantly clear, the issue of human smuggling is a multivalent and complex one. The photo shows would-be migrants to the U.S. in a van trailer in southern Mexico, caught in Mexican authorities’ X-ray […]

May 20, 2011

Business

Anti-trafficking group to visit truck show

The non-profit Chapter 61 Ministries started the project two years ago to fight human trafficking.

March 28, 2011