{"id":390,"date":"2015-03-10T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alltruckjobs.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:39:48","slug":"truckers-against-trafficking-how-drivers-can-take-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alltruckjobs.com\/blog\/truckers-against-trafficking-how-drivers-can-take-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Against Trafficking: How Drivers Can Take Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Last month, a trucker from Virginia noticed strange behavior happening in an RV at a Pilot gas station and immediately alerted the authorities. The heroic driver, Kevin Kimmel<\/a>, knew as soon as his suspected something that it was only right to immediately to take action.<\/p>\n

\u201cSaw what looked like a young girl looking out the window, the black drapes didn\u2019t make it look like a families\u2019 RV, you know,\u201d Kimmel told a local TV station. \u201cI saw a guy come up and knock on the door then go inside the Pilot \u2014 then quickly came back and knocked again, all of the sudden the thing was rocking and rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without the quick moving efforts of Kimmel, the young girl may have been forced into continued torture from her captives. However gruesome and shocking this story was, unfortunately, it’s certainly not the first (or last) time truckers have eye-witnessed sex slavery while on the clock. And, there’s usually more behind a “Lot Lizard” that meets the eye. Many if not most sex workers are forced into the trade unwillingly and are unable to leave for fear of harm to them or their families from their pimps.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Lynn Thompson and her ministry, Chapter 61 Ministries launched the original concept for Truckers Against Trafficking<\/a> (TAT.) Two years later, Thompson’s daughter, Kendis Paris, helped grow the organization and took the role as executive director. “No one in our family had any connections with the trucking industry, we just all believed that if this industry became aware of the realities of domestic sex trafficking that they would use their unique position as the eyes and ears of our nation’s highways to affect change in this area and that is exactly what’s happening,” said Paris.<\/p>\n

What is human trafficking?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to TruckersAgainstTrafficking.org, “Human Trafficking is modern-day slavery. Traffickers use force, fraud, and coercion to control their victims.”<\/p>\n

Startling facts about sex trafficking (courtesy of The Covering House<\/a>):<\/p>\n