[1] This national organization formed in Oklahoma, United States,[2] in 2009 and teaches truck drivers about the results of human trafficking.
[5] According to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center, the majority of truck drivers who report tips learned about them through TAT.
[7] The organization began a partnership with Pilot Flying J in 2011,[8] Love's in 2013,[9] and the Truckload Carriers Association in 2013.
[12] Also in 2013, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto spoke highly of TAT at a forum hosted by Western States Propane.
[13] In one successful execution of TAT training, a truck driver called 9-1-1 after suspecting human trafficking in a particular situation, and his phone call precipitated the arrest and subsequent conviction of 31 traffickers, the release of nine people from the sex industry, and the fall of an organized crime ring that had been active in 13 U.S.