Free, location-based website connects truckers with businesses able to provide needed services.
TORONTO & SAN FRANCISCO & DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of volunteers from the North American technology community has banded together to build and launch Truckers Welcome a mobile site that helps truck drivers find essential services across the US and Canada that are available and near their current locations.
Designed to help front-line workers, Truckers Welcome addresses some of the significant challenges truck drivers face while on the road keeping goods and supplies flowing to grocery stores, hospitals, and communities. The mobile website helps drivers find services that are still available near them during this crisis, using the location on their smartphone.
As a social application, Truckers Welcome helps businesses add and share information about the services they are still able to provide to drivers – such as drive-through meals, washrooms, wi-fi, and fuel. With a click, both truck drivers and businesses can easily and immediately add more businesses. It’s open to anyone so both large and small businesses alike can share how they are helping.
With over 1600 locations already registered across North America and hundreds of new locations being added weekly, Truckers Welcome is fast becoming an indispensable resource.
“With the important social distancing guidelines in effect for the foreseeable future, we want to build up a valuable source of information for both truckers and business,” says Dom Chorafakis, a Toronto-based volunteer working on Truckers Welcome who also is a Technology Consultant. “This has been a continental effort with people volunteering to help from across Canada and the US.”
Truckers can visit the site at truckerswelcome.ca, or truckerswelcome.com.
Contacts
John Stetic 925-282-9294
john@truckerswelcome.ca
media@truckerswelcome.ca
