Proclamation
by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin

Whereas, truck drivers are the unsung heroes of the American highway and the United States economy; and  

Whereas, day in and day out, more than 3.1 million men and women deliver the goods that keep our economy going and growing; and

Whereas, more than 80 percent of U.S. communities depend solely on truck drivers to deliver their goods; and

Whereas, truck drivers delivered 9.2 billion tons of freight or 67 percent of the total U.S. freight tonnage in 2013; and

Whereas, truck drivers keep the shelves of our local supermarkets fully stocked; and

Whereas, truck drivers deliver medicine and medical supplies to hospitals and clinics; and

Whereas, truck drivers deliver goods at every stage of production - from raw materials to the product on the store shelf - and they do so safely and timely.

Now, Therefore, Be it Resolved that I, Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor of the Great State of West Virginia, do hereby proclaim September 14 - 20, 2014, as:

 National Truck Driver Appreciate Week
 

in the Mountain State and encourage all citizens to join me in this observance.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of West Virginia to be affixed.

Done at the Capitol, City of Charleston, State of West Virginia, this the fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand Fourteen, and in the One Hundred Fifty-Second year of the State.