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Highway Angels * USA - Influencing the Public's "Perceptions About Trucking"
Truck drivers' random acts of kindness on the highways
Alexandria,VIR,USA -Layover -16 Sept 2009: -- When the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) receives driver nominations for its Highway Angels program, the stories frequently involve heroic deeds, such as pulling people from flaming vehicles or keeping critically injured crash victims alive or minimizing their pain until paramedics can take over. But sometimes even a mundane act of kindness, such as fixing a flat tire, can leave the person who was helped with a permanent, positive impression about truck drivers... Here's an example. On February 4, 2009, two sisters driving along I-64 in Kentucky felt their tire blow out. It was snowing heavily, and their car slid off the road. With a sinking feeling, they realized that the spare tire in their trunk was equally flat... Larry Goessens, a driver for Anderson Trucking Service of St. Cloud, Minnesota, stopped to help the sisters. First, he pulled the car out of the ditch; then, he drove to the next town, had the spare tire repaired, returned to the scene, and replaced the flat tire with the spare... Rhonda Davis, one of the women Goessens helped, was extremely impressed by the random act of kindness. She even took the time to write a complimentary letter to Anderson Trucking Service, stating: "This may not be a big deal to some people, but you would not believe how many people just drove right by me, standing on the side of the road
it was snowing to beat the dickens, and I am an old lady!
It was as if God himself sent this man to help me"... Deborah Sparks, a spokeswoman for Highway Angels said, that Davis' letter only reinforces what TCA's Communications & Image Policy Committee (which oversees the Highway Angels program) has believed since it first initiated the program: that truck drivers' random acts of kindness on the highways no matter how minor provide the best possible publicity for the trucking industry...Labels: Highway Angels
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