{"id":5058,"date":"2012-10-24T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=5058"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T10:36:13","slug":"mid-michigan-towing-company-fights-breast-cancer-with-pink-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/mid-michigan-towing-company-fights-breast-cancer-with-pink-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Michigan towing company fights breast cancer with pink truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mid-Michigan towing company is fighting breast cancer in an eye-catching way. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The looks and staring, you don&#8217;t realize why they&#8217;re staring at you until you think about it twice and then you realize you&#8217;re in a giant pink truck. It&#8217;s kind of an eye catcher,&#8221; said Raymond Darabos, driver for Tim&#8217;s Towing. Her name is Lady Luck and she brings out the softer side of the men who work at Tim&#8217;s Towing in Linwood. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have green and yellow <a href=\"http:\/\/truckerhunt.com\/\">trucks<\/a> then you drive a pink truck. It&#8217;s a lot different,&#8221; Darabos said. <\/p>\n<p>Lady Luck is a true diamond in the rough story. Her good looks were hidden beneath a coating of rust and disrepair &#8211; before the guys at Tim&#8217;s spent weeks transforming her into the vibrant pink truck you see today. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We actually mixed our own color of paint for it. Lady Luck pink and painted everything on it,&#8221; said Matthew Ballor of Tim&#8217;s Towing. <\/p>\n<p>The inspiration came from Ballor&#8217;s grandmother. She battled and survived breast cancer before losing her life to a different cancer later on. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She went through the whole fight. She was a tough lady. She&#8217;d love it. She&#8217;d probably want to take a ride in it,&#8221; Ballor said. <\/p>\n<p>In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, 10 percent of the proceeds from every call Lady Luck goes on will be donated to Making Strides for Breast Cancer. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an effort close to <a href=\"http:\/\/cdlapps.com\/ \">driver<\/a> Darabos&#8217; heart, too. &#8220;I have family that have survived and lost breast cancer, so it kind of relates to me also,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once we bring it out there you just hear all these stories how it affected their families. Even themselves just hearing their stories, you&#8217;d like to think it helps a customer,&#8221; Ballor said. <\/p>\n<p>Looking for Loads to Haul?<a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/\">http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mid-Michigan towing company is fighting breast cancer in an eye-catching way. &#8220;The looks and staring, you don&#8217;t realize why they&#8217;re staring at you until you think about it twice and then you realize you&#8217;re in a giant pink truck. It&#8217;s kind of an eye catcher,&#8221; said Raymond Darabos, driver for Tim&#8217;s Towing. Her name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058"}],"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=5058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5058\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}