Each year, for one week, we officially celebrate and appreciate those people who devote their lives to bettering our own, truck drivers. This great celebration took place across our nation last week.
According to the American Trucking Associations, there are over 3.4 million professional truck drivers nationwide, delivering the goods U.S. consumers need every day of the year. Logging over 432 billion miles per year, trucks delivered 10.7 billion tons of freight in 2007, or 69 percent of total U.S. freight tonnage. Professional truck drivers are more essential to the national economy than ever before, and they’re delivering their loads safely and professionally.
If you’re a driver, how did your employer or family celebrate last week? We want to hear your stories! Did they have a cookout or cater lunch? Did you receive gifts of recognition or certificate? What meant the most to you?
If you’re not a driver, make sure that you take more than just a week each year to thank our nation’s truck drivers and appreciate that they bring us the good stuff every day of the year.
And thanks again, knights of the road, for all that you do each and every day!
