FedEx Trucks for Treats
NOTE: Content below is from 2009 event. Check back 3-4 weeks before the event for updated information.
Join us on October 16-17, during the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, when FedEx and Safe Kids USA remind children and adults how to keep kids safe on Halloween. FedEx will provide reflective giveaways to increase children's visibility during evening hours and safety tips for parents and drivers. For more information on child pedestrian safety, please visit www.usa.safekids.org/wtw.
Together with Safe Kids Worldwide, FedEx established the Safe Kids Walk This Way program to teach safe behaviors to motorists and child pedestrians and create safer, more walkable communities. The goal of the joint initiative is to prevent pedestrian-related injury to children. Since the launch of the program in 2000, Safe Kids Walk This Way has spanned the globe, enabling FedEx volunteers to reach families in hundreds of communities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Safe Kids Walk This Way programming includes annual events as well as year-round initiatives. With programs in seven countries -- U.S, China, Brazil, India, Canada, South Korea, and the Philippines - each year tens of thousands of children, teachers and parents join FedEx volunteers in celebrating International Walk to School Day activities. These local celebrations include mass walks to school, educational programs and opportunities for community leaders to shine a light on a particular pedestrian safety issue in their communities. Important local issues highlighted have included unsafe intersections, schools that lack crossing guards, and streets where there are no safe sidewalks.
Educating children about walking safely is only part of the Walk This Way program. Making the areas where children walk safer is critical to keeping kids out of harm's way all year long. To address these concerns, Safe Kids and FedEx created the task force grant program. Each task force is made up of key members of the community working together to improve a specific walking environment for child pedestrians. These intervention areas are often near schools, and the improvements range from installing speed boards to adding countdown signals with child-friendly buttons. Through this grant program, a task force in Dallas, Texas, was able to relocate a bus stop, add safety wheelchair ramps and install a new fence to keep students away from the public street at a local school. In Greenville, N.C., after a speed board and new crosswalk were added to an area school - police reported that the number of "speeding in a school zone" citations decreased in this intervention area.
Safe Kids and FedEx also work together to remind children, parents and motorists of important safety tips around Halloween. Halloween is one of the most dangerous days of the year for child pedestrians - children are more than twice as likely to be hit by a car and killed on Halloween than the rest of the year. To increase awareness about these risks and promote safe behaviors for motorists and child pedestrians, Walk This Way programming around Halloween includes participating in community-based Halloween events; distributing safety tips and giveaways that increase visibility, such as reflective trick-or-treat bags and blinking lights; and working with local and national media outlets to help spread the word about safe driving and walking for this particular night.
Each year, thousands of FedEx team members around the world volunteer their time and expertise to support Safe Kids. For more information about Safe Kids Worldwide and the Walk This Way program, please visit www.usa.safekids.org/wtw.
ABOUT THE FEDEX HYBRID VEHICLES AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
FedEx is committed to providing global connections while minimizing our environmental impact. We have integrated responsible environmental practices into our daily operations, and we continuously set goals that challenge us to increase efficiencies and reduce waste.
We couple our disciplined approach to operations with the latest innovations to further boost fuel savings.
For example, FedEx operates the largest fleet of commercial hybrid trucks in North America consisting of more than 170 hybrid-electric trucks, one of which will be on display at the Pumpkin Festival.
We are also a founding member of Carex (Cargo Rail Express), a group developing an express-rail network in Europe, offering an alternative to aircraft routes, improving fuel efficiency and reducing noise impact.
FedEx Express, FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight are members of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay Transport Initiative - a voluntary alliance between various freight industry sectors and EPA that seeks fuel-efficiency improvements and greenhouse gas reductions through operational changes.
For information, visit http://www.fedex.com/us/
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