Big strapper started as a dream of mine about 7 years ago; I was driving a truck
myself and was comfortable in life and as a lot of you know, it is a tough business
to be in especially nowadays with fuel costs so high. I was too scared to
follow a dream of mine because I needed to keep food on the table and did not have
the extra money to invest. I finally got to a point in my life where I could
afford to take a risk, and I started to get samples of T-shirts and coffee cups
made. It seemed like the right time to come out with my line because of
the popularity of the truck shows on CMT and the work done by Chrome Shop Mafia.
My daughter sparked the idea for the school bus shirt and the reading scholarship.
She was struggling with reading in school and I was not notified of it
until her reading had deteriorated to the point where she was falling behind the
rest of her class. When I enrolled her in an extracurricular reading program,
it cost a small fortune to keep her in it. Her reading improved so much that it
would have been detrimental to her progress to take her out. I realized that
I was not the only parent with this problem when I saw many of her other peers
in the same program, so I wanted to create a fund to help relieve the financial
pressure on parents. I researched the idea for the fund with Nancy Townsend of
The Reading Clinic in Loveland, Colorado. She agreed that the need for financial help was a widespread problem. Hence the
scholarship 'So Every Child Reads'. One dollar from every Big Strapper item sold
goes to the fund. |
Custom line of trucker shirts, trucker t-shirts, trucker sweatshirts, biker shirts,
biker t-shirts, biker sweatshirts, womens v neck shirts, womens tank tops, caps, mugs, and other trucker and biker items. |