Angie and Larry Baum are both truck drivers that have been married for many years. The two love their jobs and each other so much that they started their own YouTube series titled "Married to the Road" where they document their travel as truck drivers.
One of the most impressive things about the couple, though, is that they started the "Treat a Truck Driver" campaign that helps provide meals to truck drivers that are continuing to work and deliver resources every day. The two came up with the initiative as a way to give back to their trucking community during the pandemic.
A lot of truck drivers are having issues getting meals with restaurants being closed and some are not allowing walk-up service in their drive-thru (a semi-truck cannot fit through the standard fast-food drive-thru area).
The husband and wife duo have created a GoFundMe page in order to provide brown bags filled with lunch meat sandwiches, healthy snacks like granola bars, nuts, fruit, crackers, water bottles, and Gatorade bottles. They would also like to provide $5 Subway Gift Cards inside the bags to allow the drivers to grab a sandwich for their next stop.
100% of the proceeds will go directly to buying supplies or gift cards only.
The Baums will be documenting this process of making the bags up, preparing sandwiches, purchasing Subway Cards and handing them out to their fellow truck drivers on their Facebook page.
If you want to donate to the campaign or just learn a little bit about the Baums and their initiative click HERE.