Robert Palm

Recruiters are pulling out all the stops to attract truck drivers. But one trucker charity founder says carriers’ priorities change when tragedy strikes: They often retrieve the freight but fail to help the drivers’ families.

Nonprofit charity Truckers Final Mile that helps bring deceased drivers home to their families is facing a bleak future without donations.

Truckers Final Mile charity helps bring deceased truckers home but also wants to ensure children who lost a parent have a present under the Christmas tree.