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Ryan Doyle has seen disturbing evidence of human trafficking as he logs thousands of hours on America’s highways as an over-the-road trucker. On Monday morning, Doyle, of Goodland, attended the Kansas Corporation Commission motor carrier safety meeting in Topeka. It included information on “Truckers Against Trafficking,” a national campaign encouraging truckers to call in tips when they see something that raises their concerns about human trafficking. “I was up in Denver, Colorado, at a truck stop, and there was a young girl, and she was running around, she had one shoe and her clothes were kind of ratted up, but she was trying to make money so she could feed her little brother,” said Doyle, of Doyle Transportation LLC. “It’s a sad deal.” Doyle has been a member of Truckers Against Trafficking for about six months. The KCC, which provides safety programs weekly throughout the state for thousands of truckers, added information about TAT to its training recently to spread awareness. The training includes a video that tells truckers what to look for as they travel and gives them a telephone number, presented in easy-to-remember format as 888-3737-888, to call with tips. “It is a modern form of slavery,” said Brent Scott, KCC special investigator, during the training. “This is not one of the more positive things we talk about when we get in front of you all. But it is something we need to bring awareness about.” Scott told those gathered that human trafficking is “not discriminatory.” “In Kansas, more than 83 percent of human trafficking involves domestic victims, and the majority of these are children,” he said. “What we see on TV and in the movies, and all of the misguided information that we get, we always seem to think this is something that happens to kids and people from foreign countries. This is not true.” “We want to empower and mobilize everybody that’s in a position where you can see this, where it operates, where it happens,” he said. In the video, made by the national TAT organization, truckers are encouraged to call and report what they see or hear, even if they are unsure whether trafficking is a problem. They are told to look for anything unusual, such as a car pulling into a truck stop or rest stop and letting out multiple girls. Sometimes, truckers in the video report, the trafficking is blatant, with a call coming over the radio asking if anyone is interested in young girls. Jack Doyle, Ryan Doyle’s father, has been in the trucking industry for 27 years. He said he has definitely seen situations that suggest human trafficking. “I think a lot of people don’t realize it’s as bad as what it really is,” he said. “I think (TAT) makes a lot more public awareness of it.” “I think the main thing that TAT helped with was who to contact,” Ryan Doyle said. “Sometimes you call local law enforcement, and they’ve got a lot going on. And you’re not sure if you’re making false reports, and if it’s something they should really check out or not.”
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