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Local Car Dealers Loan Vehicles to Houston Food Bank to Aid in Food Deliveries

By: Paula Murphy
| Published 06/13/2020

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HOUSTON, TX -- In addition to Houston Food Bank’s fleet of bobtail trucks and 18-wheelers delivering food to Partners and Neighborhood Super Site distributions, there are additional, smaller vehicles on the road helping to make important direct deliveries to those in need.

Chevy and Toyota vehicles on the road to bring food assistance during COVID


Through a very generous donation by Jay Davis, Matt Davis and Mike Calvert, owners of Davis Chevrolet and Mike Calvert Toyota, five Chevy Equinoxes and five Toyota RAV4s have been loaned to Houston Food Bank for an open period of time and are being used as part of the organization’s new home delivery system, added as part of COVID-19 response efforts.

The different types of deliveries being made with these vehicles include:

Senior Boxes – two, 30-pound boxes being delivered to the home

Quarantine Food Kits – three boxes totaling 86 pounds of food for quarantined families

Diabetic-friendly Quarantine Food Kits – two boxes totaling 78 pounds of food for quarantined families

Disaster Boxes – one 13-pound box of food to supplement families’ food supply

These deliveries are scheduled through the Houston Food Bank Call Center, and many deliveries are being done with the assistance of National Guard Soldiers as drivers.

“Houston Food Bank does not typically do direct deliveries to homes, but the overwhelming need and special circumstances of COVID-19 lead to the start of this assistance,” says Jim Day, a dedicated volunteer of Houston Food Bank and member of its Apple Corps Leaders program. “The food bank home deliveries of quarantine food kits, diabetic kits and disaster boxes have totaled approximately 1,900 deliveries, which have provided approximately 94,000 pounds of food or 78,000 meals. The National Guard and the Toyota and Chevrolet vehicles provided have been a big part of this program, and we thank Mr. Davis for his generosity to help neighbors in need.”

In addition to the direct deliveries listed above, the drivers are using the vehicles to keep one of our delivery partners, Nuro Inc., stocked with the appropriate boxes to make deliveries in their driverless vehicles; and to drive to various apartment communities to make bulk Senior Box deliveries, typically 200 senior boxes at a time. Previously, enrolled Senior Box program clients received their boxes at various distribution sites around the city, but now have their boxes delivered to their door.

For more information on Houston Food Bank and to learn where to get food assistance and to donate money or time, visit www.HoustonFoodBank.org.

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