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IMAWA members are encouraged to team up with Trucker Buddy International to provide over-the-road truck driver "pen pals" for elementary school children.

IMAWA members who currently have a Trucker Buddy partnership with a school include:

Jackson Moving Services, Naperville

Pictured to the right: Ms. Denise Trabilsy's class at Goodrich School in Woodridge, Illinois. Trucker Buddies are Randy and Tori Olsen and their dog Frasier, from Jackson Moving Services.

Lake County Movers, Waukegan

John Leach, Lake County Movers, is Trucker Buddy for Ms. Angela Broom's 4th grade class at Woodland Intermediate School in Gurnee, Illinois, pictured to the right.

Prager Moving & Storage Co., Naperville

Tom and Sandy Peters, Prager Moving & Storage, are Trucker Buddies for Ms. Tracy Gajdos' second and third grade class at Lincoln Prairie School in Hoffman Estates. The Peters were named "Trucker Buddy of the Month" for May 2002 by Trucker Buddy International, after being nominated by Ms. Gajdos. They were also featured on a "CBS Morning Show" segment.

John Skarb, another driver from Prager Moving & Storage, is Trucker Buddy to the first grade class of Ms. Jenn Kufahl, Woodland School District 50 Elementary West School, Gages Lake, Illinois.

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Trucker Buddy is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping educate and mentor the nation's schoolchildren via a pen-pal relationship between professional truck drivers and children in grades 2-8. Trucker Buddy matches classes of students with professional truck drivers. Every week, these drivers share news about their travels with their assigned classes and provide a format for the enhancement of the grade school curriculum in reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies, and history.
Since 1992, Trucker Buddy has helped educate over half million schoolchildren and introduced them to a group of caring, compassionate group of men and women, the nation’s professional truck drivers.