Client: TransAlive USA Contact: Bob Hataway Subject: Nonprofit AmCoach program for drivers Release: For immediate release

TYLER, TX -- Injured truck drivers on the road to recovery will have help getting home. The nonprofit driver support group TransAlive USA is providing extended transportation equipment to carriers from medical facilitiesto homes or rehabilitation centers in a specially equipped motor coach. TheAmCoach is sponsored by TransAlive USA with help from the transportation industry manufacturers and suppliers.

AmCoach has a special room with an adjustable bed with special accommodations to make drivers comfortable in transit, sleeping quarters and shower facility for the staff and/or family members accompanying the driver. The motor coach also has a kitchenette, living quarters and luggage bay.

The TransAlive AmCoach services the continental US and southern Canada.  The AmCoach provides an alternative to air charter for injured drivers who can not travel in a sitting up position, said Bob Hataway, TransAlive founder. Neither commercial flights nor standard buses allow the driver to lay down during transit.

Special air charter flights can charge up to $10 per air mile, compared to TransAlive AmCoach Program whaich operates on contributions.  Drivers without any assistance will be allowed to use the unit without any expenses.  TransAlive wants every driver to have access regardless of financial ability.

Several leading industry companies have joined with TransAlive in sponsoring the AmCoach Project with products, services and/or financial support.   See the list of sponsors by clicking on the "Sponsors" button at the bottom of this page.

The Texas-based organization is located in Tyler, TX.  They accept missions on a first-come, first-service basis. Drivers will have a grace period to reschedule in the event they are not released as planned.  When not under dispatch, the AmCoach will visit truck stops and truck shows. In addition to displaying the equipment and explaining the service, TransAlive members will perform free blood pressure checks.

The AmCoach is the newest service from TransAlive. A network of 100,000 volunteers in the US and Canada who visit injured drivers in hospitals, who pickup family members at airports and who assist with housing arrangements. TransAlive notifies next of kin in cases of driver fatalities, retrieves personal effects from the tractor and ships to the driver's family. The nonprofit group provides safety tips for print media in the US and Canada.

For more information, or if you are not currently on board as a sponsor of component parts for the AmCoach and you would like to be, contact Bob Hataway, President  - TransAlive USA -  P O Box 821546 - Ft Worth, TX  76182-1546,or call 800-872-4878, or you can email him at Bob_Hataway@transalive.com.You may also go to our web site at www.transalive.com for more information.