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Learning from frontline truck and bus drivers
As the eyes and ears of America’s roadways and communities, frontline truck and bus drivers regularly observe so much around them that rarely gets captured in any kind of systematic way. To bridge this gap, in 2021 - 2022, TAT began a multi-year effort to develop systems for collecting data and insights from its partners in trucking and school transportation. Through its partnership with J.B. Hunt, TAT collected survey data related to prostitution and sex trafficking from over 13,600 professional truck drivers.
Similarly, through a series of pupil transportation conferences/in-services that TAT’s Busing on
the Lookout team presented at in the summer of 2022, TAT collected survey data from over 400 school transportation professionals about their experiences related to suspicions about grooming, trafficking and/or exploitation. The findings of these two surveys reinforced the important role that the trucking and bus industries can and are playing in combating human trafficking.
SURVEY DATA COLLECTED FROM OVER 13,600 PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVERS REVEALED:
3,568 (26%)
Recalled at least 11,598 sightings of prostitution or sex trafficking during their careers on the road
992 (7%)
Have seen at least 3,044 incidents of prostitution or sex trafficking within the last three years
SURVEY DATA COLLECTED FROM OVER 400 SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS REVEALED:
33%
Have suspected that a student was at risk of being groomed and/or abused
25%
Have reported an incident of suspected child abuse, grooming or trafficking
TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING EDUCATE EQUIP EMPOWER MOBILIZE 13
A transit bus in Peoria, IL wrapped with a BOTL victim-centered design.
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