Partnership to improve mental health across transport industry

Pickles — a leading marketplace for transport, construction, mining, aviation, vehicles, general goods and salvage assets — has announced its Corporate Charity Partnership with Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds Foundation (HHTS), an industry umbrella body created to improve mental health and wellbeing across the road transport, warehousing and logistics sector in Australia. Pickles was launched in 1964 and since its inception it has strived to foster a healthy working environment. Partnering with HHTS offers an opportunity to help promote and bring awareness to a very important cause.

HHTS was launched in August 2020 to bring awareness to mental health and wellbeing issues across the road transport and logistics industries, with the aim of lessening and preventing mental health issues. The foundation’s three-year National Mental Health and Wellbeing Roadmap provides individuals and companies with tools and resources to assist in fostering healthier workplaces.

Hugh Rainger, National Manager (Trucks and Machinery) for Pickles, said the company has a long affiliation with the transport industry over the past 50 years; Rainger added that this is a great opportunity for the company to better assist its people and to give back to the industry.

“We are delighted to be partnering with HHTS and look forward to collaborating with them on a number of fronts this year. Every year, Pickles sell in excess of 30,000 trucks and trailers for and to a diverse range of vendors and buyers. Given the size of our marketplace, we deal with everyone from one-truck owner-operators to corporate line-haul larger fleets. This partnership provides us with an ability to connect with a wide range of people in the industry. This is one of the key reasons that we are so keen to partner with Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds, and to ultimately make our industry safer and stronger,” Rainger said.

HHTS CEO Naomi Frauenfelder added that the support from Pickles will enable HHTS to continue to drive awareness and increase understanding of mental health and wellbeing in the sector. “We commend the foresight of Pickles in getting behind the cause of HHTS and look forward to working closely with them to drive improved outcomes when it comes to building healthy, happy and thriving working environments for all members of the sector today and into the future,” Frauenfelder said.

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