Moorestown Fills Another Tractor Trailer For Hurricane Victims

MOORESTOWN, NJ — The DiPasquale Family wrote the following open letter to Moorestown residents after filling up a tractor trailer for hurricane victims for the second consecutive year.

This year’s Tractor Trailer Challenge benefitted victims of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. Last year, residents filled an entire 53-foot tractor trailer — donated by McCollister's Transportation Group, Inc., of Burlington Township — tohelp Hurricane Irma victims.

In 2012, the DiPasquale Family — which lived in Cream Ridge, Monmouth County at the time — engaged in its first challenge, filling an SUV and then a tractor trailer for Superstorm Sandy victims.

The letter can be found below:

See anything good this past weekend?

We did.

We saw an entire community come together to help another in desperate need.

We saw people in 301 cars drive up to donate supplies to help people they've never met, and will never meet.

We saw neighbors and co-workers bring carloads of supplies they collected from their own neighborhoods and workplaces.

We saw businesses, schools, and organizations, volunteer as drop-off locations, and bring truckloads of supplies they collected for 4 weeks.

We saw volunteers, both children and parents, freely give up their weekend, to stand in the windiest spot in town, to load and organize a truck in the cold.

We saw two days of lunch and treats delivered to our hard-working volunteers from both friends and strangers.

We saw a local trucking company, McCollister's Transportation Group, Inc., graciously donate the use of a huge truck for the weekend, along with a driver, and transport to the South; all at no charge, to make this event possible.

...And after only one weekend in the park, 6 hours each day, we saw a 53-foot tractor-trailer filled with supplies for hurricane relief.

Moorestown... You did it!
You rose to our challenge and filled the tractor-trailer!!

Well done, Moorestown. Well done.

Proud to call Moorestown our home.

~The DiPasquale Family

The attached images from the Tractor Trailer Challenge were provided