Every week, TruckNews.com lists notable strikes, promotions and awards within the trucking trade.
This week, fleets demonstrated their assist for numerous charitable causes. Whereas Challenger Motor Freight donated provides for youths of Waterloo area, Manitoulin transport and Traction hosted a charity golf basic to assist in poor health youngsters and Ontario college students, and Groupe Robert staff participated in a problem supporting breast most cancers basis.
Challenger helps backpack problem
Challenger Motor Freight donated 170 backpacks to the Waterloo Regional Police to assist its seventh annual Backpack Problem.
“Your generosity will assist make an enormous distinction locally,” police stated in its LinkedIn publish.
The Backpack Problem encourages companies and residents to buy new backpacks, lunch baggage, college provides, or reward playing cards to be donated to youngsters and households in want.
Over the previous six years, greater than 16,000 backpacks, 1000’s of {dollars} in reward playing cards, and faculty provides have been collected. Final yr, donations had been distributed to households and greater than 25 youngster and youth organizations all through Waterloo Area.
Manitoulin, Traction host charity golf basic
The transportation trade gathered on the Rocky Crest Golf Resort and Lake Joseph Golf Membership in Muskoka, Ont., for the sixteenth annual Manitoulin & Traction Charity Golf Traditional.
This two-day occasion united individuals in assist of the Jennifer Ashleigh Kids’s Charity and the Ontario Trucking Affiliation (OTA) Training Basis.
The Jennifer Ashleigh Kids’s Charity helps sick youngsters and their households by funding essential bills that hospitals, OHIP or non-public insurance coverage don’t cowl. The OTA Training Basis helps increased schooling for college students in Ontario by providing monetary help to these linked to the trucking trade.
Previously 16 years, the match raised greater than $2 million via entry charges, sponsorships, and stay and silent auctions.
“Having Manitoulin and UAP Traction run the charity golf match represents a major dedication to supporting our group and serving to essential causes that actually make a distinction,” stated Stan Dunford, the unique founding father of the charity golf basic match, in a information launch. “It’s nice to be again and to see the trade nonetheless coming collectively.”
Groupe Robert helps breast most cancers basis
Almost 30 Groupe Robert staff tackled the Mudgirl impediment course in Montreal on July 6 to assist the breast most cancers basis.
One other Robert group of 10 staff from Mississauga participated within the Hamilton race in June.
Sportera, the problem organizer, says that since Mudgirl’s inception, it has donated $312,000 to charities throughout North America and Europe.
Mudgirl is a five-kilometer race held in numerous cities in North America, every with greater than 17 obstacles. Whereas there isn’t a time restrict or obligation to finish all obstacles, the minimal age to take part is 7. Kids between the ages of seven and 13 have to be accompanied by an grownup for the whole thing of the race.
