Trucking professionals are uniquely equipped to provide valuable assistance to eliminate human trafficking.
Truck drivers are on the same roads, parking at the same rest areas, and fueling up at the same truck stops that human traffickers often use to sell their victims.
Recognizing the value of involving the trucking industry in this effort, Truckers Against Trafficking was formed in 2009. TAT actively began recruiting trucking companies across the nation to train their drivers on what to watch for and, more importantly, how to report suspicious activities. TAT offers extensive training and many highly effective and valuable tools to help professional truck drivers identify victims and come to their aid.
Trained drivers throughout the country are now calling the National Human Trafficking Hotline to report what they were seeing. Polaris Project, which runs the hotline, has reported that calls from truck drivers rose significantly once Truckers Against Trafficking began. In 2021 over a thousand calls were received from Pennsylvania alone. And in the last five years, over 41 percent of the cases reported by truck drivers have involved victims who are minors.
Truckers Against Trucking is an important organization doing truly meaningful work, and Pennsylvania’s trucking industry is proud to be a partner in this effort. But there much work yet to be done in the battle against human trafficking and more drivers to be trained. In fact, every motorist should learn how to identify the signs of human trafficking and, even more importantly, have the tools to report something that doesn’t look right.
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