Penske donates $1 million in used trucks to support Haiti relief efforts

February 10, 2010

The Penske Corp. said today it has donated 40 used flatbed trucks, valued at $1 million, to support the ongoing relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

The 22-foot vehicles, pulled from the Penske Truck Rental fleet, will help distribute food and life-saving supplies as part of humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti, Penske said.

The company said representatives of a team headed by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush last week contacted founder Roger Penske's office in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., seeking help with donated vehicles. Penske Truck Leasing, another Penske unit, pulled vehicles from inventory across the Western, Southern, and Gulf Coast states and began shipping them to south Florida for the voyage to Haiti.

Sixteen of the 40 trucks left Florida yesterday, with the rest to leave this Sunday or Monday, Penske said. The first group of vehicles will arrive Thursday morning, according to a Penske spokeswoman.

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Mark Solomon joined DC VELOCITY as senior editor in August 2008, and was promoted to his current position on January 1, 2015. He has spent more than 30 years in the transportation, logistics and supply chain management fields as a journalist and public relations professional. From 1989 to 1994, he worked in Washington as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce, covering the aviation and trucking industries, the Department of Transportation, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to that, he worked for Traffic World for seven years in a similar role. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Solomon ran Media-Based Solutions, a public relations firm based in Atlanta. He graduated in 1978 with a B.A. in journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.

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