LAS CRUCES, N.M. — If you’re in the States any time over the next few months and spot a 16-year-old blonde in sunglasses, sneakers, and headset trotting alongside the highway, you should know that what you’re looking at is simply goodness in motion.

The girl is Jazzy Jordan and she’s running across America to raise money and awareness for the St. Christopher Truckers Development & Relief fund, (www.truckersfund.com), a not-for-profit organization that offers financial assistance to truckers with medical problems who need money.

Traveling with Jazz in a Ford F350 pickup her dad, Lee, a trucker.

The Jordans live in Dalton, Minnesota, ("Population 300 and that’s including the dogs and the graveyard," says Lee) where they run two companies, Jordan Pilot Car Services  for accompanying over-size loads as well as Jordan Enterprise, a heavy-haul and over-size fleet.

Early this year, one of the pilot-car drivers, Sheila Grothe, fell ill. And by the time she was diagnosed adequately it was too late. On April 17, at 38, she died.

Meantime, Jazzy and the rest of the Jordans had become very attached to her. "Sheila was like family," says Lee.

So in her memory, Jazz, who had been training as a runner with her eye on the 2012 Olympics, abandoned the competitive training for now and decided to do the cross-continent run. 

A former Canadian wrestler-turned trucker and
his 16-year old daughter help out ailing truckers in need.

She left L.A. on September 1, and according to her dad, has been averaging between 17 and 22 miles every day. She splits the day into two runs and in between, tends to her schoolwork.

Jordan was born to be on the road. Not only is her Dad Lee a trucker, he’s a Canadian too, originally from Carstairs, Alta, where most of his extended family still lives and she has lots of friends and family in the business.

"They all know about her up there," Lee Jordan told todaystrucking.com in a phone interview from New Mexico earlier this week. "And everybody’s really proud."

In October, Jazz had to stop for a few weeks because of an injury, which has since healed. But during the downtime, her father found himself hauling a load back up through his home province.

"I took a load from Houston to Cochrane, Alberta. I passed a guy from Minnesota. He saw Jordan Enterprises on the truck and he knew about Jazzy and well the CB waves just went nuts."

Jordan Sr. is perfectly suited to touring the country in, well, unusual circumstances.

Before he wrestled with over-sized trailers, he wrestled with over-sized guys, criss-crossing the continent for 20 years as Gentleman Jimmy Jordan, professional wrestler.

"Don’t let the name fool ya," he laughs. "I was one of the villains, the guy everybody hated. It was crazy."

To learn more about Jazz, to buy a shirt in her support, to see pictures taken en route as well as the route itself, visit www.runwithjazzy.com or follow her on Twitter at Runwithjazzy.