Panhandling

mudflap560 · 11-21-2009

A ROSE goes out to the line of truck drivers who stopped to help a single mother who had lost her job.

WBTV, a CBS affiliate in Charlotte, NC, reported that Latrica Ingram lost her job at a restaurant there earlier this year. Unable to find work, the single mother of a 13-year-old daughter took to panhandling to help raise money.

She told the TV station she was standing on the Interstate 77 off ramp on Sunset Road, when more than 20 Con-way Freight trucks stopped and gave her gifts ranging from money to bottles of water.

Ingram said she thinks the truckers must have used the CB to organize their efforts, so she sent a message to the TV station to praise them.

Well, we’ll just throw our praise right in there with her. Thanks to those truckers for a good deed well done and for presenting a positive image for the trucking profession.

http://www.landlinemag.com/Archives/...zzberries.html

Nice gesture on their part, however I hope that some union brothers stopped too!

loa24y · 11-21-2009

I can't imagine what 20 con way trucks would be doing running together unless they were all lost except the front truck.

arty :

mudflap560 · 11-21-2009

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Originally Posted by loa24y

I can't imagine what 20 con way trucks would be doing running together unless they were all lost except the front truck. :

Don't take offense but only 1 was lost and that was the front truck, all the rest knew where they were going, just following the front truck!

:hyst

222lifer · 11-21-2009

20 Conway trucks in a row? It was staged. Nice PR move and what better way to recieve low cost advertising. Where was "Dollar Bill?" Thinking of ways to piss away another 50 million this month.

slavenomore · 11-21-2009

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Originally Posted by 222lifer

20 Conway trucks in a row? It was staged. Nice PR move and what better way to recieve low cost advertising. Where was "Dollar Bill?" Thinking of ways to piss away another 50 million this month.

He was in a meeting trying to figure out what the best exits are for us to stand at with panhandling cups.

222lifer · 11-21-2009

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Originally Posted by slavenomore

He was in a meeting trying to figure out what the best exits are for us to stand at with panhandling cups.

Thanks alot. I just blew coffee all over the key board.

mudflap560 · 11-21-2009

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Originally Posted by 222lifer

20 Conway trucks in a row? It was staged. Nice PR move and what better way to recieve low cost advertising. Where was "Dollar Bill?" Thinking of ways to piss away another 50 million this month.

222lifer, you sould be a carpenter, cause you hit the nail right on the head!