DDC FPO and TEAR partner to
donate PPE kits to truckers
Truck drivers moving in and out of hot zonesto perform essential work are receiving personal protective equipment (PPE) thanks to acollaboration between DDC FPO, a back-office partner for the transportation industry, and TruckersEmergency Assistance Responders (TEAR), a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded with the mission to help truckdrivers in distress.
TEAR has built and deployed a network of corporatesponsors and volunteers to source, assemble, and distribute PPE kits to truck drivers on the front lines. Delivered
Trimble offers free app to help
truckers locate amenities
Supply chain technology provider TrimbleInc. has launched a freeweb app that displaystruck-stop status andamenity information,allowing truck driversto find essential break locations, showers, and restaurants.
The information comes as many break locations haveclosed completely or have shuttered certain amenitiesduring the coronavirus crisis. Currently available on desk-top or mobile devices in North America only, the “Covid-19 Safe Haven Web App” is intended to help the transportation community find out which locations are closedand which conveniences are open. Drivers can also use theplatform to find Walmart locations with overnight parking,view live traffic and weather reports, and help their peers byreporting location closings.
Amazon.com teams up with Boston
Scientific to deliver face shields
E-commerce retailer Amazon.com Inc. has teamed up withmedical device manufacturer Boston Scientific to deliverdonated face shields to health-care facilities around the U.S.
fighting the Covid- 19 pandemic.
Health-care volunteer coalition GetUsPPE organized the
effort, under which Boston Scientific mobilized employees
at a dozen sites to produce and donate the personal pro-
tective equipment (PPE), while Amazon offered logistics
support. Amazon provided space on its trailers to deliver
the shields from Boston Scientific to local delivery stations,
where Amazon associates have worked with delivery service
partners in Chicago, Detroit, and the Washington, D.C./
Baltimore metro areas to deliver the face shields to hospi-
tals and clinics.
Goodwill makes masks for Ryder
essential staff
Job training nonprofit groupGoodwill of South Florida has converted a portion of its sewing operations to manufacture 20,000 masksfor employees at transportation andlogistics company Ryder System Inc.
The initiative extends a long relationship between the two organizations, since company founder JamesRyder was also one of three founders of Goodwill some 60 years ago,David Landsberg, CEO of Goodwillof South Florida, said in a release.
The masks are being used to protect Ryder’s essentialemployees as they support the flow of goods and servicesneeded in the fight against Covid- 19. Each mask is madewith camouflage material on the outside, a softer fabric onthe inside, and elastic ear loops.
Kia Motors manufactures face shields
on assembly lines
Automaker Kia Motors America is donating personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals and medical facilitiesduring the Covid- 19 crisis. The face shields are assembledat its Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia plant in WestPoint, Georgia, and thebrand plans on donating atotal of 300,000 face shieldsnationwide.
A group of company volunteers called “Telluriders”recently delivered faceHealth in Morristown, New Jersey. The deliveries were partof Kia’s “Accelerate the Good” initiative, which includesongoing face shield donations to medical facilities in NewJersey, Southern California, and Georgia.
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