What does National Driver Appreciation Week Mean?

Next week, September 14-20, is National Driver Appreciation Week.

What does that mean to the average consumer?

We hope that people take the time to realize how important our drivers are and just what they sacrifice to do their job.

Look around your home or your office.  Most everything that you have was trucked in across this great country for you to have the ability to purchase it.

Whether it is your groceries, the lumber at a Home Depot, your clothes, shoes, or food at your favorite restaurant, it was trucked in by a professional driver.

In our business of household goods movers, a driver is so much more. A driver needs to be the main point of contact to move your most prized possessions across this country.

A driver needs to not only know all of the federal regulations and adhere to all safety rules, but they need to know how to move and  wrap, load and protect furniture so that it arrives safely.

Drivers are often away from home for weeks at a time, sometimes months. They are away from family and friends and live most of their life on the road.

They mostly drive while we are sleeping, when the highways are less congested, for greater safety.

When you are moving your home, there are always plenty of emotions and it can be a lot for a person to coordinate, so a driver needs to have the ability to work with people.

Moving is listed as one of the most stressful events in a person’s life and the driver finds himself right in the middle of it.

We hope that that Driver Appreciation Week people take the time to just look up and say thank you to all of the drivers across this country.