Truckers Final Mile

Who pays when a truck driver dies on the road?

While recruiters are always searching for skilled truck drivers and using sign-on bonuses and paying incentives to attract drivers to come work for their trucking companies, there’s little mention of what happens to the expenses — and who pays for them — if the driver suffers a medical emergency or dies in a fatal crash while under a load. 

That’s because there’s no federal mandate by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration requiring trucking companies to pay the expenses when a driver —...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/who-pays-when-a-truck-driver-dies-on-the-road

Death on the road: Families often struggle to get truckers home

Recruiters for trucking companies nationwide are pulling out all of the stops when it comes to sign-on bonuses, pay incentives and social media campaigns to attract drivers to the industry.

However, the founder of a trucker charity says the industry’s priorities are often misaligned when it comes to taking care of one of their own who dies of a medical condition or is involved in a fatal crash on the nation’s highways.

Robert Palm, a 40-year trucking veteran and founder of Truckers Final Mile,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/death-on-the-road-families-often-struggle-to-get-truckers-home

Trucker charity faces bleak future without donations

Truckers Final Mile helps get deceased drivers home

A trucker charity that helps bring deceased drivers home to their families is facing a bleak future without new sponsors and donations.

Truck driver Robert Palm established the nonprofit organization Truckers Final Mile seven years ago to help truckers’ families bring their loved ones home after they experienced a fatal health episode or were involved in a deadly crash. 

Since 2014, Palm and his volunteer board have helped nearly 300 truckers’ families.

Sleigh Bells and Santa

Among them, the 54...

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Trucker charity helps bring deceased drivers home

Truckers Final Mile helps pays expenses to bring deceased truckers home

Truck driver Robert Palm started a charity nearly seven years ago, Truckers Final Mile, to help desperate trucking families bring their deceased loved ones home who are often thousands of miles away when tragedy strikes.

Palm, a veteran, served in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army from 1975 to 1980. He’s been trucking for nearly 40 years.

“Our mission is to reunite North American truck drivers and their family in times of crisis,” Palm told FreightWaves.

In 2020, Palm’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucker-charity-helps-bring-deceased-drivers-home

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