How St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund Helps Drivers

The truck driver group is robust. There are a variety of charitable organizations on the market that may lend a serving to hand when drivers want it. Most likely the largest of those organizations is the St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund.  

We have been capable of speak with Shannon Currier, Director of Philanthropy with St. Christopher who gave us some perception on what their group does.  

What’s the general mission of St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund?

The St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund is a 501c3 charity supporting over-the-road and regional truck drivers when an sickness or damage takes them off the highway, inflicting monetary issue. 

We step in as a short-term security web for qualifying drivers and pay necessity family bills together with hire or mortgage, utility payments, car funds and insurance coverage funds.  All funds are made on to invoice holders.  Cash is rarely given to the driving force.  We pay these necessity family bills solely and can’t pay medical payments or different bills.  Our help retains drivers of their properties, retains utilities on, retains a car to allow them to get to and from appointments, and retains them from shedding their insurance coverage. 

We additionally present free well being and wellness packages for over-the-road and regional truck drivers together with free flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines, free smoking cessation program, and free CDC accepted diabetes prevention program. All of our packages are free because of beneficiant donations from our company sponsors. 

Are you able to inform me the historical past of SCF?

St. Christopher Fund was based in 2007 by Dr. John McElligott (identified within the trade as ‘Dr. John’), Dave Nemo (host of the Dave Nemo Present and proprietor of Radio Nemo, XM 146), and Dave’s enterprise companion, Michael Burns (proprietor of Radio Nemo). 

These 3 gents spent years speaking with drivers on the radio and heard drivers in despair over shedding every part due to damage or sickness and so they determined one thing wanted to be performed. They created the St. Christopher Fund to be a security web for these drivers.  We helped our first driver in 2008 and, to this point, have helped 3,602+ drivers with over $4.29 million in help paid on to their invoice holders. 

{Qualifications}:

To qualify for help from St. Christopher Truckers Aid Fund, a driver should meet all the following:

The St. Christopher Fund is blessed with superb donors (each particular person and company) and we might not be capable to supply the help we provide with out the generosity of each one in every of these folks and corporations.  Trucking is about folks, and every part we do at SCF is to assist the driving force – with monetary help, further assets and useful info, and to encourage more healthy drivers.  We’re honored to be the facilitators of those beneficiant donations and to make a distinction within the lives of drivers and their households.

If a driver is in search of monetary assist, how would they go about receiving it?

Now we have an internet utility that’s the quickest option to apply for help.  However we are able to additionally fax or mail an utility to anybody needing it. 

For drivers who’re experiencing troublesome occasions however don’t qualify to obtain help from St. Christopher, you may check out Drive My Means’s assortment of assets for displaced drivers.

This consists of hyperlinks to unemployment assets, details about persevering with your medical health insurance, incapacity protection and extra. You may as well create a free Drive My Means profile beneath to discover a job that matches your {qualifications} and life-style wants.