MONTREAL — Some kids who would otherwise be going to bed hungry will eat well this week thanks to a handful of good-hearted people
in the trucking business who really know how to connect. FTC’s food storage depot is in Guelph. The drop off is in Montreal. What do to Fortunately, the Canadian representative for FTC Canada, Ryan Fletcher, knows Jamie Williams, the president of . FTC is also the charity of choice for proceeds from PeopleNet’s annual golf tournament, which was held last week in Oakville, Ont.) About a month or so back, Williams introduced Fletcher to the team here at Today’s Trucking. that FTC was looking for somebody to help get the food from Guelph to Montreal. New Brunswick truck driver Kevin Desilva saw the story and called FTC, volunteering his time and his Volvo. Desilva drives for , which threw its support behind the project. Keltic is a 12-year-old for-hire fleet out of Moncton, with particular expertise in the food industry. Earlier Desilva made his way up to Guelph and then back to Montreal to deliver the food. Conveniently, even though Desilva and Keltic were offering their services for free, FTC was proactive enough to find a load of Croc shoes that needed delivering from Laval to Guelph, so the trip west wasn’t a complete wash.
Fletcher, who will be in Montreal to watch the needy families get their food, was thrilled with Williams, Desilva and Keltic. “This industry’s full of good hearted people,” he said.