Members of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, along with generous donations from local farmers, organized seven truckloads of hay to be delivered to ranchers in Texas to feed their livestock and horses. Texas ranchers are in dire need of feed due to the Texas drought and summer fires that traveled across the state.
The trucking industry not only delivers all of life’s essentials safely every day, they are the first to respond when disaster strikes a community.
Baylor Trucking, Bestway Express, Grammer Industries, Prime, Inc., TransCorr, Venture Logistics and American Trucking Associations’ Share the Road program volunteered to deliver the much needed freight.
Joe Kelsay, Indiana Secretary of Agriculture, Indiana Motor Truck Association President Gary Langston, Motor Carriers & Allied Member of the Indiana Motor Truck Association, and American Trucking Associations Professional Truck Drivers held a Media Event prior to truckloads of Indiana hay departing for Terrell, Texas for Texas ranchers on october 12th at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. The cargo arrived in Terell, Texas on Thursday, October 13.
American Trucking Associations held their annual meeting October 15-18, 2011 in Grapevine, Texas and wanted to help the communities in the Lone Star state.
