Automotive and equipment auctioneer and valuer, Pickles, has announced its Corporate Charity Partnership with mental health and wellbeing foundation, Healthy Heads Trucks & Sheds (HHTS).
Through the partnership, Pickles will join HHTS in its mission to improve the mental health and wellbeing of workers across the road transport, warehousing, manufacturing, and logistics sectors.
Since its inception in 1964, Pickles said that fostering a healthy working environment has been one of the key components in the work arena.
The company said that partnering with HHTS offers an opportunity to help promote and bring awareness to a very important cause.
“We are delighted to be partnering with HHTS and look forward to collaborating with them on a number of fronts this year,” said Hugh Rainger, National Manager, Trucks & Machinery at Pickles.
“Pickles has a long affiliation with the transport industry over the past 50 years and we see this as a great opportunity for us to not only better assist our own people, but also to give back to an industry that has been so good to us over time,” Rainger said.
“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.”
He also said that the partnership provides Pickles 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,” he concluded.
Launched in August 2020, HHTS aims to bring awareness to mental health and wellbeing issues across the road transport and logistics industries, with the key goal 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.
With Pickles as its latest partner, the not-for-profit organisation hopes to bring more awareness to the importance of mental health and wellbeing programs in these industries.
“HHTS is about industry supporting industry and with support from Pickles we can continue to drive awareness and increase understanding of mental health and wellbeing in our sector,” said Naomi Frauenfelder, CEO at HHTS.
“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,” she said.