Trucker Buddy Executive Director Appointed to ATA Committee
Steve Williams, Chairman of the American Trucking Association
(www.truckline.com), recently announced the nomination of Ellen
Voie to the ATA's Communications and Image Policy Committee. Voie,
the Executive Director of Trucker
Buddy International (www.truckerbuddy.org) for four years, has
agreed to serve on this committee for the 2004-2005 term. The
Communications and Image Policy Committee is responsible for
promoting a positive image of the transportation industry, and has
initiated the recent, "Good Stuff, Trucks Bring It" campaign.
"I am pleased that the ATA recognizes the impact the nearly 4,000
Trucker
Buddy drivers have on thousands of children, their teachers and
their parents each week as they correspond with elementary
students," said Voie. "Our organization has been presenting a
positive image of truck drivers to the general public for over a
decade," she added, "and we will continue to work alongside the ATA
to positively impact those outside of our industry."
Voie will be attending the ATA Leadership meeting this February in
Washington DC, where she will attend her first ATA meeting in her
official capacity as committee member.
Trucker
Buddy International is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization
dedicated to helping educate and mentor schoolchildren via a pen
pal relationship between professional truck drivers and children in
grades 2-8. Trucker
Buddy matches classes of students with professional truck
drivers. Every week drivers share news about their travels with
their class. Once a month, students write letters to their drivers.
Students' skills in reading, writing, geography, mathematics,
social studies, and history are enhanced and learning is fun. Since
1992, Trucker
Buddy has helped educate nearly one million schoolchildren and
introduced them to caring, compassionate men and women,
professional truck drivers. The organization's headquarters are
located in Waupaca, Wisconsin.
