Tractor Trailer Challenge Returns To Help Florence Victims

MOORESTOWN, NJ — For the second straight year, Moorestown has been given a challenge. The DiPasquale Family has challenged the township to fill a 53-foot tractor trailer to help victims of Hurricane Florence in North Carolina. It is the second straight year the Tractor Trailer Challenge has come to Moorestown.

Last year, residents filled an entire 53-foot tractor trailer — donated by McCollister's Transportation Group, Inc., of Burlington Township — to help 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.

McCollister’s is donating another tractor trailer for this year’s challenge, which will take place on Oct. 20 and 21, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, at Wesley Bishop Fields, 1248 North Church Street in Moorestown. The trailer will then transport the items to North Carolina.

All the volunteers will once again be the DiPasquale children and their friends. The family is adding a new component to this year’s challenge, inviting local schools and businesses to join the challenge as drop-off points. To be included, email TTC@aol.com.

A list of accepted item donations can be found at www.TractorTrailerChallenge.info..

The attached image from last year’s challenge was provided by the DiPasquale Family