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april 1, 2013 |
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We had a great time at the Louisville Truck Show last week and certainly enjoyed meeting and greeting everybody that stopped by to visit. The only downside was the cold weather.
How cold was it?
It was so cold they were renting out ice-fishing shacks instead of exhibitor booths!
Trucker Buddy Driver of the Month
February 2013
Ron Wagganer
Ron Wagganer has been named February 2013 Trucker Buddy of the Month for his work with Dena Mayerfeld’s sixth through eighth grade class at Sinai School in River Edge, New Jersey. Mayerfeld said she and her class are honored and most appreciative to have Wagganer, a USRA Logistics driver, as their Trucker Buddy saying he has enriched their writing lessons, curriculum and their ability to articulate thoughts clearly. He has helped her student’s perspective, understanding and insight into someone else’s life.
Mayerfeld speaks highly of Wagganer as her Trucker Buddy, “We are a class of 6th, 7th and 8th grade boys in a Jewish Special Education school. My boys and I have been corresponding with Mr. Wagganer since September and it has been the greatest of pleasures from the onset! Writing, as well as many other skills, do not come easily to this group. Mr. Wagganer has been positive, sensitive and conscientious about our correspondence. He has sent us numerous pictures of his truck and his family, has enlightened us on all aspects of trucks, truckers and trucking. His words are always warm, positive and resonate with tremendous enthusiasm for his family, his trucks and life! His letters provide the excitement and motivation for much of our writing curriculum.
“We have a Trucker Buddy International bulletin board in the back of our classroom and display all of the correspondence and pictures that Ron has graciously sent. We also featured this pen pal project at our Parent Day presentation, where parents are invited to participate in our lessons. We showed a slide presentation, using some of the pictures that Ron had sent us. Each boy narrated a slide and presented the Hurricane Sandy letters that they had written to Ron in the wake of the super storm.
“The value that Ron places on the boys’ responses have exceeded our wildest expectations: He brought the letters, in which the students wrote about their personal experiences during Hurricane Sandy, to the editor of his local newspaper and asked to have these letters printed! The editor actually followed up with a feature about the Trucker Buddy pen pal project between Ron and our class. Needless to say, seeing their words in print was an experience for them, a unique and rare moment in the sun.”
In addition, Mayerfeld says Wagganer has been an outstanding role model of responsibility, sensitivity, friendship and understanding. He imparts much knowledge about his profession, the country and life to her class. Above all, she says his passion for all that he is and does is contagious and has generated warm and positive feelings in each boy, motivating that young man to reach ever higher.
Mayerfeld concludes, “The boys and I sincerely hope that we ‘keep on truckin’’ with Ronald Wagganer for a very long time.”
The River Edge, NJ area was hit by Sandy and a local newspaper in Ron's hometown did an article on the relationship between him and the class especially after Sandy. Click Here to Read the Story.
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