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.

[SheltieLover]

7. Ty for sharing, Dunc!

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