Human Trafficking Prevention Training

2016 – Old Dominion Freight Line

WHEREAS: Human trafficking is the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. The U.S. Department of State has emphasized the importance of training for individuals who may encounter victims of human trafficking, and has identified transportation professionals as being particularly well-placed to identify trafficking victims.

According to the International Labor Organization's most recent global estimate, there are at least 20.9 million victims of forced labor, trafficking, and slavery in the world today; globally 2.4 million people are victims of trafficking at any given time. In the United States, over 100,000 children each year are at risk of being exploited by human trafficking,

Trafficking victims are often hidden in plain view at construction sites, restaurants, agricultural fields, and rest or truck stops.  The trucking industry has the potential to play a vital role in identifying and assisting these victims. Since its creation, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) has over 20,000 victims identified and more than 1100 reports have been from callers who self-identified as truckers.

Failure to address the risks of human trafficking in its operations, places Old Dominion Freight Lines behind its peers. Other companies in the trucking industry, such as Ryder, CR England, J.B. Hunt, Werner and Landstar, have address the issue through training for drivers, publically partnering with organizations like Truckers Against Trafficking and provide resources to combat human trafficking. Old Dominion’s publically available reporting does not indicate any such efforts.

We believe a company associated with incidents of human trafficking or child sex exploitation could suffer substantial negative financial impacts, as well as loss of reputation and adverse publicity.

We believe commercial advantages may accrue to our company by adopting a more extensive policy addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and by promoting training and programs to combat trafficking.

RESOLVED: The shareholders request that the Board of Directors prepare a report on the implementation of program to address human trafficking internally and in its supply chain, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary/confidential information, and provide the report to shareholders by November 30, 2016.

Supporting Statement: We believe the report should be comprehensive, transparent, and verifiable, and we request that it address the following:

· A statement of company policy on human trafficking,

· An overview of employee and customer awareness, education and training on the issue of human trafficking,

· A plan for communicating information to customers,

· Methods of informing truckers of “key persons” at any destination who can address the issue, and

· Annually publish a progress report prepared.