{"id":2291,"date":"2011-05-20T03:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T03:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2011-05-20T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T03:33:19","slug":"road-team-driver-promotes-trucking-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/road-team-driver-promotes-trucking-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Team driver promotes trucking at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Garcia, a driver with ABF Freight System Inc. and a member of America\u2019s Road Team, told Obama administration officials about the rewards and challenges of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">career in trucking <\/a>during a White House forum as part of National <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Transportation<\/a> Week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an honor to be invited to the White House to promote something I believe in so strongly \u2013 the importance of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">trucking industry<\/a>,\u201d Garcia, a native of Rio Rancho, N.M., said following the forum.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was one of 20 transportation professionals who participated in the May 16 White House \u201cChampions of Change\u201d roundtable that focused on how best to promote careers in transportation.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flagparachute.com\/i\/\/Flag-Truck-GrandStanding.jpg\" alt \"trucking\" \/> <\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no better way to earn a living than behind the wheel as a professional driver,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cIn my 30 years as a driver, I\u2019ve seen so much of this great country that I wouldn\u2019t have had the opportunity to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government, Garcia said, could do more to encourage Americans to explore a career, or remain, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">trucking industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Garcia, a driver with ABF Freight System Inc. and a member of America\u2019s Road Team, told Obama administration officials about the rewards and challenges of a career in trucking during a White House forum as part of National Transportation Week. \u201cIt was an honor to be invited to the White House to promote something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3374,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/3374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}