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Apr 13, 2010

Highway Angel * USA - Driver named after pulling woman from wrecked car

TCA receive a lot of letters and e-mails from people across North America nominating truck drivers for the program.


(Photo: Peter Pearce, right, gets certificate naming him a Highway Angel)

Alexandria,VA,USA -The Trucker News Services -12 April 2010: -- The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) honored Peter Pearce, a truck driver for Flying J Inc., of Ogden, Utah, as a Highway Angel for helping extract an accident victim from her overturned car... On February 9, Pearce was heading north on Highway 42 between Debolt and Grand Prairie in Alberta when a pickup truck passed him going close to the speed limit. As the driver switched back into her original lane, the vehicle slipped on a patch of black ice, careened backward into a ditch, flipped over three times, crashed through a fence and landed upside down in a field... Both Pearce and a motorist stopped to help. While the other driver called emergency personnel, Pearce ran down the embankment and leapt over a crash barrier into thigh-high snow to reach the pickup. Its engine was still running, and the rear wheels were still turning. The driver was in a state of panic, screaming for help... Since both doors were too damaged to open, Pearce asked the woman to cover her face while he broke a window. He then reached in, turned off the ignition and extracted the driver. He moved her a few feet away and covered her with a travel blanket that the other motorist provided. The woman had a large gash on the back of her head, so Pearce retrieved a cushion from her car to help absorb the flow of blood. All three waited together for the next 20 minutes until paramedics arrived at the scene... Since its inception in August 1997, the Highway Angels program has recognized hundreds of drivers for the unusual kindness, courtesy, and courage they have shown others while on the job...

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Sep 18, 2009

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...

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