Help stranded truck drivers

You can make a difference by donating today to Truckers Emergency Assistance Responders.

We help stranded truck drivers get home with their pets and belongings following a carrier abandonment.

Too often long-haul truck drivers are evicted from their truck when they are far from home and have not paid their last paycheck, leaving them without resources to get home with their belongings and pets.

There are currently no protections for workers in the trucking industry who experience the carrier abandonment practice. It can happen to a driver who has become too sick to drive or has been working for an unethical employer who has been coercing the driver to drive illegally, has not paid them for several weeks and then fires them and leaves then stranded.

The trucking companies that do this are generally committing other labor abuse and unfortunately there is little to no enforcement to curb this conduct since truck drivers are exempt from fair labor standards and have no recourse.

Truckers Emergency Assistance Responders - (TEAR) was formed in 2019 and has helped nearly 80 drivers in 2022 alone who needed to get home with their pets and belongings following carrier abandonment.

We provide short-term immediate assistance for food, shelter in motels, pet food, and transportation in the form of Greyhound bus tickets, U-Haul rentals or car rentals plus gas money to get them home.

Our funding has now run too low to continue our mission to help truck drivers beyond 2023.

Each client that contacts us is a different situation. Some are extreme that require a couple thousand dollars to help out and some just need a few extra bucks to pay for a bus or airline ticket that they don't quite have enough funds to cover. On average though, it costs us about $750.00 per truck driver we help, and we have been getting about three requests for help a week. The problem is growing as more companies realize they can have a truck driver work for a few weeks, not pay them, and then fire them while they are far from home and leave them stranded and there are no consequences to them.

Your donations help us keep going so that we do not have to deny help to a truck driver who needs a little help in a situation like this.