Posted by Truckers Helping on Sunday, September 16, 2012,
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Charity Updates
For
the past 29 years the community of Belleville, IL has come together
to support Charity. The town of Belleville has been hosting the Chili
Cook Off since 1983. It started with just a few vendors celebrating
their love for chili and has grown to over 70 vendors that serve not
only chili of all kinds, but also the usual “fair food” you will
find at these sort of events, also there are several beer tents
located throughout the Chili Cook Off. The event is hosted each year
by the Bell... Continue reading ...
Posted by Truckers Helping on Saturday, June 16, 2012,
Mr. Tony Hamilton was chosen and accepted as executive director of public relations for Trucker Charity Inc. He comes with a well seasoned background in trucking as well as marketing. Tony is active in many non profit organizations. He is a director at Operation Roger, active in Truckers For Charities as well as active in local community organizations. We welcome his experience and network. He will be put to the test daily at Trucker Charity Inc. He will be taking on a paid position at Truc... Continue reading ...
Trucker Charity Inc is pleased to announce that, right now, President Lance Wood is on his way to collect a truck which has been donated to the charity by a benefactor. Trucker Charity has now become a Motor Carrier for the purpose of funding the charitable actions performed by the charity and the education and mentoring of drivers. Many of Trucker Charity's sponsors are kindly helping to decal the unit and make it ready for the road. On the road, it will be listed as a Disaster Relief Vehicle,... Continue reading ...
Yep, we try and update it as much as we can, you can also leave comments, tips, questions or what ever in the comment section. Thumb through a few of them to see what your charity has been doing as of late, then make sure to check back from time to time. Continue reading ...
We'd like to thank Triple T Tire and Lube in Black River Falls Wisconsin. Trucker Charity had a case today and needed their services. They were the only business in town willing to lend a helping hand to a couple who have had some really hard times. The wife of the family woke up this morning and got ready to head to her Chemo treatment only to find out that she had a flat tire on her car. Trucker Charity got the call at 11am. She had already missed the treatment today but wanted to make sur... Continue reading ...
Trucker Charity is holding an online raffle for an MD Alignment technique alignment every month. This is being graciously offered by Chad Hohn from Kansas as his way of lending a hand to the trucking community. Chad is one of MD Alignment's best technicians. Click here to enter
http://www.truckercharity.org/alignment-raffle.php With an MD Alignment you will save on tire wear which puts money in your pocket. You'll be straight as an arrow going down the road and the shimmy's will be gone (Gi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Truckers Helping on Friday, March 9, 2012,
Without the support of ALL of our wonderful supporters we would not be able to do what we do. http://www.uprinting.com has been very generous this year with our printed materials. They do great work, if you're looking for a printing solution give them a try. Our friend Chad Hohn, one of the leading experts of MD Alignment systems has offered up one alignment a month for us to put on our store OPS1 systems came through with flying colors like always for our Christmas Group.CUBBY BUDDY (done fo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Eldon McFarling on Friday, December 23, 2011,
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Christmas Group
The 2011 fundraiser for needy trucking families wrapped up
on Tuesday 12-20-2011. This group of truckers from all over the US and Canada
and several special guests made calls to the 10 families chosen to receive
funds this year. Each family received a gift of $700 cash for Christmas needs,
gifts, food, medication, rent, repairs, truck payment, etc.
Here is a recap of the 2011 Christmas group fund drive:
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23 nominations were received for needy trucking
families
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7 were d... Continue reading ...
Posted by K Mullins on Wednesday, December 21, 2011,
 Matt was the winner of the Pedal Car Raffle for the 4th annual Trucker Charity Christmas Group. Thanks to all of our Brother's of the Highway for their entries. Your contribution went to help your brothers in their time of need.This year we were able to help 10 trucking families with $700 each to do with what they see fit.Trucker Charity is dedicated to truck drivers and their needs. We would like to expand our operations so that we could help drivers in other areas as well. With the donatio... Continue reading ...
Posted by K Mullins Secretary on Thursday, December 15, 2011,
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Charity Updates
Sometimes I really don't know how we do it, someone's watching over us. We're still plugging along helping truck drivers when they find themselves in bad situations and need a leg up.
6 drivers stranded today, working on the last 2 right now. 50% of them were from CRST. Seems their recruiters are bringing in drivers without checking them out fully that they meet their requirements. Driver had a felony almost 10 years ago, no jail time, told the recruiter but the recruiter claims he didn't tel... Continue reading ...
Posted by Terry Wooley on Sunday, April 17, 2011,
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Terry Wooley
It’s almost midnight, and I’ve
been trying to finish this new song I’m working on for what seems like
days. When I sat down with my guitar in
my hand a little over 4 hours ago, I really thought it would be a quick
write. I had the idea, I had the music,
had the beginning guitar riffs, had the
perfect ending, and then I realized there was a big hole in the middle
where the rest of the song ought to go.
It started great, first couple lines, and I was sure this was ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Truckers Helping on Saturday, January 15, 2011,
Mid America Truck show MATS Press Release
Trucker Charity Inc A NFP is pleased to announce that we will be at
the Mid America Truck Show in Louisville, KY March 31- April 2 in
booth 66245. Our friends Operation Roger, Truckers Pet Transport and
Terry Wooley of One Bar Records will be with us in the booth.
Literature and cards will be available to share with those needing help
you encounter on the road uprinting.com has provided sponsor ship for
printing costs. "We get them safe, W... Continue reading ...
Its was great to meet so many that support what we are doing! I was really shocked at how many knew what we do already. We will have a blog about our time at the show soon. Right now I am recovering from the event, so this will be short! I plan to do a much more in depth write up soon. We had so many great folks to talk to and meet. We did get a lot of awareness out to the folks of who we are and what we do. I want to thank Ralph Arcola, Kenny Madis, Terry Wooley, Kacie Wood, Ben Pernell, ... Continue reading ...
Wow, we have our first featured sponsor. The spot was sold at auction. I could not think of a better company to have as a featured sponsor! The winning bidder was Big Ol' Trucker Energy Juice. http://www.bigoltrucker.com/main In the next coming days we will have there page available on our web site for all to check out! I have drank the energy Juice and have to say. Its very refreshing and taste great. Until we can get our featured Sponsors page up and going. Please stop in and visit them at... Continue reading ...
The next few months should look to be very good. We are getting ready to get a large letter writing campaign under way for the end of the year. This will assist with locking down donations for next year. We want to make sure we are one of the first charity's in line with the major corporations to get donations lined up for 2010. We will also be soliciting for some large sponsors. This time of year its very difficult to get Corporations on board as they have already expenses their donation cap... Continue reading ...
Posted by Truckers Helping on Wednesday, November 11, 2009,
The last few weeks have been a building and learning experience. We got the idea formed. The non profit formed and filed in about a week. The non profit articles of incorporation were granted in about a week. The 501c3 filings with the IRS are under way. Much of this many of our board of directors had no experience doing before. Yet, we are commited to doing it right. Legal and legit. That is our mode. We have hired legal representation to assit with filing the proper documents and such. Th... Continue reading ...
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