Michael Rexford Named Outstanding Trucker Buddy
Jina Newman of Lincoln Elementary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and her class has nominated Michael Rexford a driver for Regal Services. One of the students wrote a letter of recommendation for Mike to be awarded the Outstanding Trucker Buddy award.
“Hello! Have you met our Trucker Buddy Mike? He is really awesome, he corresponds to us every other day, or every day. He provided presents for us and he let us sit in his truck and pretend we were driving while he took our picture. We think he deserves to be given the award!
He also works really for his job and travels everywhere to deliver his stuff. He and his wife also rescues animals. They have rescued thirty-two birds and he sends us pictures of them and their names!
He also writes and corresponds to us whenever he has time but mostly it is daily or every other day. He sometimes sends us pictures and makes captions on them to describe about the picture or what’s in the picture.
Sometimes he sends us gifts like when he came to our class for Christmas. He brought us coffee mugs and a tiny stuffed animal in them along with juice and a card.
Bye! Hope you pick Mike for the Outstanding Trucker Buddy. He really works hard and is very thoughtful to provide us gifts.”
Trucker Buddy International, an independent, non-profit 501(c) (3) organization, often called the number one trucking image campaign in North America, has helped educate schoolchildren and introduce educators to the trucking industry. This gives them the world through the eyes of a professional truck driver. The Trucker Buddy program helps to educate and mentor schoolchildren via a pen pal relationship between professional truck drivers and children in grades K-8 as supervised by their teachers.
After an extensive screening process, the professional truck drivers are matched with a class and as directed by the teacher, drivers share news about their travels with their class. Students write letters and send pictures to their drivers. Students' skills in reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies, and history are enhanced and learning is made fun.
Since 1992, Trucker Buddy International has helped educate over a million schoolchildren and introduced them to caring, compassionate men and women, professional truck drivers. The on-going success of the program is due to driver volunteers, participating teachers and the contributions of sponsors. There is no cost to the drivers or teachers to participate in the program. The Outstanding Teacher Program is sponsored by Daimler Truck Products and includes, Freightliner Trucks, Detroit, Alliance Truck Parts as well as Meritor and Progressive Commercial Insurance. Each class of the teacher receives a gift pack of snacks from Frito-Lay and goodies from Trucker Buddy sponsors.