JLC Second Chance Trucking helps the formerly incarcerated [Video]

SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. — Jerry L Cox is retiring his truck driving days on the highway but is still helping drive the formerly incarcerated into the industry.

Cox started the nonprofit JLC Second Chance Trucking in Siloam Springs, to help provide opportunities for convicted felons as they re-enter society. He is partnering with multiple other organizations to provide licenses and eventually jobs in the trucking industry.

Cox’s inspiration to start the nonprofit comes from his family. Born into an abusive home, Cox started his life with a beginning that he says would’ve made him another statistic.

“If you really look back at what I’ve gone through in my life, for me to sit here and talk to you and do this interview. You wouldn’t believe it. Because sometimes I don’t,” Cox said.

Cox says his adoptive family would become …