Health & Safety Anti human trafficking messages to focus on key states May 31, 2023 Several states will be in the spotlight as the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) looks to raise awareness about human trafficking. The agency’s Your…
Transportation Add anti-human-trafficking lessons to truck driver training: CTA October 31, 2022 The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) is calling on regulators across Canada to expand entry-level truck driver training programs to include lessons on detecting and preventing human trafficking. Staff have been…
Health & Safety 5 ways truck drivers can identify human trafficking July 8, 2022 Human traffickers are known to commit their crimes along highway corridors, at truck stops, and in many locations frequented by truckers. But this also puts truck drivers in an ideal…
Transportation CVSA to focus on human trafficking in three-day event November 18, 2021 The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will shine a light on human trafficking early next year, with a new three-day Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative to be held in the U.S. and…
Transportation Truck driver training to support anti-trafficking fight August 30, 2021 The same Canadian highways that serve as corridors for freight are also used to move the victims of human trafficking. But a new online training resource is engaging the truckers…
Transportation TAT targets the root cause of trafficking December 21, 2020 ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – The truckers’ group that fights human trafficking has renewed a campaign aimed at the root cause of the problem – demand for sex. In a promo of…
Transportation Fight against human trafficking expands May 7, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 200 transportation industry leaders have answered Secretary Elaine L. Chao’s call to help fight human trafficking, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Thursday. That…
Health & Safety Human Trafficking to be focus of TTSAO meeting November 19, 2019 TORONTO, Ont. – Human trafficking will be the main focus of the Truck Training Schools Association of Ontario’s (TTSAO) general meeting Dec. 11. Truckers Against Trafficking will present, giving information…
Health & Safety Truckers Against Trafficking expands into Canada September 17, 2019 HOUSTON, Texas – Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) has expanded into Canada, entering into a partnership with the Canadian Centre to End Human Trafficking this past July. A national hotline to…
Transportation Ontario highways a hotbed of human trafficking September 9, 2019 Mississauga-Centre MPP Natalia Kusendova discusses the threat of human trafficking with Shelley Uvanile-Hesch, CEO of the Women’s Trucking Federation of Canada. MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Ontario accounts for 70% of the…
