Truck drivers spend a lot of time hauling freight that keeps everyday life moving, but sometimes a load hits a little closer to home. That was the case in Nashville, where Apex Moving & Storage stepped up and used its equipment and people to help families struggling with food insecurity.
Apex, an Atlas Van Lines agent, teamed up with Move for Hunger to get 1,000 meal kits delivered to Second Harvest Food Bank in Nashville. The nonprofit coordinated the collection of 20 pallets of shelf-stable food, and Apex hauled the load at no cost to the food bank.
For many Tennesseans, hunger isn’t an abstract problem. More than a million people in the state don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and a large portion of them are children. Apex drivers and warehouse crews didn’t sit on the sidelines. They backed Move For Hunger financially and provided the truck, the time, and the manpower to make sure those meals reached people who actually need them.
Move For Hunger specializes in turning unused or donated food into something useful by working with movers and transportation companies nationwide. Instead of letting good food go to waste, they rely on the trucking industry to get it where it needs to go. That model continues to grow as more carriers and moving companies pitch in.
According to Move For Hunger, the meal kits delivered in this run came from community drives and corporate partners. Once distributed by Second Harvest, they’ll supply thousands of families across Tennessee with reliable, healthy meals.
The nonprofit’s founder, Adam Lowy, praised the effort and highlighted what partnerships like this can accomplish. “Every delivery like this brings us one step closer to a hunger-free future,” said Adam Lowy, founder of Move For Hunger. “We’re grateful to Apex Moving + Storage for their unwavering commitment to our shared goal. By mobilizing their trucks and teams, we’re turning potential waste into lifelines for neighbors in Nashville and beyond. Since 2009, our network has delivered over 55 million meals – including more than one million meals in Tennessee – and initiatives like this keep that momentum going strong.”
For drivers, this kind of work is a reminder of how much impact a truck can make beyond the highway. A single load can feed thousands. And when companies put their rigs to use for something like this, it shows the real power of the transportation industry: when drivers move, communities move forward, too.
Source: Truckers News
