Truckers against human trafficking.

[Dunc]

My outfit offers this training and as a father and as a fellow steering wheel holder. I thought I’d share this if you’d care to participate.
https://tatnonprofit.org/

[niyad]

1. Good morning, my friend, and thank you for posting this. I will look

at it in depth later, but incredibly important.

[Dunc]

2. Good morning my friend.

[Tetrachloride]

3. i know of people at risk

they are relieved to see me

but resources are limited

[Dunc]

4. Years ago.

When i was driving line-haul for Roadway we’d stay in hotels at foreign terminals. And one morning as i was checking into a hotel in North Carolina.
I was told that the local police picked up several women who were trafficked in this hotel the day before.

[2naSalit]

5. Good!

This is long overdue. In my days on the road I must have seen a trafficked person about once a week in my travels. Some you can tell right away, others not so much.

Also, know the hand signal for victims asking for help silently... hand held up, thumb folding into palm with fingers folding down over the folded thumb.

[Dunc]

6. I never understood the gravity of this situation. Until we were starting to be educated at first by Roadway in video.

Years back you and i remember commercial company working truck stops and I’d feel for those ladies .
And I’m not trying to sound callous. Back then those women were just part of the landscape. Those ladies roaming the parking lots knocking on drivers doors was the subculture of trucking.
Along with the odor of weed burning from a sleeper cab next to you parked and the offers of road dope over the C.B.
Today it is almost nonexistent. As truck stops will call the local authorities video cameras every where. And in my mind i thought prostitution in our world was a thing of the past.
And i was wrong as today in my education I’ve even discovered you can order a trafficked woman online from your phone.
As most recently last year sitting in Fernley Nevada late at night parked in that huge dirt parking lot across from that cement plant next to the truck stop.
Waiting my partner and i for Truckee to open because they had the chain law in place. We saw a woman hop out of a van and into a cab we both knew what was happening. Yet it is Nevada where prostitution is legal.

[2naSalit]

8. I do remember that...

And I have to tell you,if it's supposedly the oldest profession, it'll keep on to some degree no matter what.

When I was driving across the country last summer I had a 26' dry box with my car on a trailer and I stopped at a few truck stops, mine was a diesel, only to find that they were all quick-marts with fast food, maybe. Wow, what a rude awakening, especially when I needed something other than fuel and junk food. I stopped at Walcott, IA thinking I could get a nice dinner only to fund that it was nothing like the place I used to know.

[Dunc]

9. It's all changed.

A few decent mom and pop restaurants with truck parking. Can’t remember this one place down in Kentucky I think it was off 64 over near olive hill it was down in a hollow great food sit down to eat it’s gone.
Antelope out in Burns Wyoming good food sit down restaurant fuel showers. On that old team run hit terminals on way out and back fuel daily showers.
Hit a grocery store which you could get 53 in or set of pups on way back out to 80 from the terminal stop load up on roasted chickens and veggies or fruits.

Cowboy cafe in Lymon Wyoming is decent food then there’s this place in Nebraska a planet fitness we’d stop work out shower.
And I’m drawing a blank on the exit it was near Omaha they had a restaurant next to it was huge parking lot middle night early morning we’d park there.
Just found that by a need try and stay in exercise routine I googled earth the gym figured 03:00 we’d be able park there and we could.
Across from the pilot out in Santa Rosa on old 66 is a decent Mexican restaurant that you can park 53 or pups.
Yea it’s all changed a lot drivers don’t even run a radio anymore I feel naked doing that I need to know what’s going on in front of me weather or accidents.

Iowa 80 yep it’s changed for sure take care friend.

[2naSalit]

10. I remember...

A couple of those old stops. Was it Sapp Bros. in Nebraska? There were a couple old restored Stuckey's stores that had some good food out there too. There was a place on 80 in eastern Iowa, run by Amanna colony or Amish folks, east of Coralville exit. Sat out a blizzard there once.

There used to be good food stop all across the country on every route, it's where I used to eat for years.

My last trip was a lot of two-lane by choice but I had run all those routes at some point in my career. It was an interesting blast through the past.

Travel safe, friend!

[Dunc]

11. Yea I forgot about that place over in Iowa that's been years ago.

I agree getting off the big road. I’d run 54 out when we’d run Ontario California terminal on way home if I was driving my shift I’d catch 54 out of Tucumcari up to witchia

I usually don’t run team mostly solo yet that time I did team was okay I had decent partner.

[SheltieLover]

7. Ty for sharing, Dunc!

I'll look at link later when I have more time & will def share liberally.