ATA Hosts Press Conference in Las Vegas
Las Vegas – October 6, 2012
| Summary: | American Trucking Associations will join forces with Truckers Against Trafficking® to raise awareness about human trafficking among professional truck drivers and the trucking industry and educate them on how they can help fight against the crime. |
| Assemblyman John Hambrick, author of legislation to combat human trafficking, will join ATA and TAT at the press conference. | |
| Nevada Trucking Association partnered with TAT earlier this year. | |
| The Department of Justice estimates between 100,000 and 300,000 children are at risk every year to traffickers in the United States and that many children, teens and young women are sold into the sex trade. | |
| Who: | American Trucking Associations |
| Nevada Trucking Association | |
| Truckers Against Trafficking | |
| Lt. Karen Hughes, Las Vegas Metro Police | |
| Assemblyman John Hambrick | |
| TA-Petro | |
| Professional Truck Drivers with millions of miles of accident free driving | |
| What: | Press Conference |
| When: | Sunday, October 7, 2012 |
| 1:00 p.m. | |
| Where: | Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino |
| 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas | |
| South Convention Center – Second Floor - Surf A |
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100129/ATALOGO )
TAT is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to educating, equipping, empowering and mobilizing the trucking industry to fight human trafficking. Its resources include a website, a trucking-industry-specific training DVD, webinars, posters, speakers/trainers and more. More information is available at www.truckersagainsttrafficking.org.
American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Good stuff. Trucks Bring It!
CONTACT:
Elisabeth Barna, American Trucking Associations, 202.420.8972
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SOURCE American Trucking Associations