The four-year "Partnership for Prescription Assistance Help is Here" bus tour, sponsored by the Pharmaceuticals Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) which featured two buses criss-crossing the U.S. several times, and visiting all 50 states. The nationwide "Vote Travel" bus tour for the U.S. Travel Association, which promoted domestic travel in America. The Avis Budget Car Rental Group's "Rolling Pride 2012" bus tour which visited more than 90 markets across the country, covering more than 25,000 miles. Two bus tours for "Bill Haslam for Governor," the first of which featured 131 events in 19 days, and the second of which covered 7,500 miles criss-crossing Tennessee over 20 days. In 2014, LogiCom managed the 10th Anniversary tour for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation. Additionally, we provided production support and consulted to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Standing Up for Tenneessee” Tour.In prior years, LogiCom has managed bus tours for clients as varied as Dole/Kemp '96 , Senator Orrin Hatch, Aloha Meds, and the Miami HEAT basketball team. |
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In 2005, LogiCom was contracted to manage the Partnership for Prescription Assistance “Help is Here” Bus Tour for the Pharmaceutical Manufactures of America (PhRMA). The tour officially kicked off in the nation’s capital on May 4, 2005 and visited all 50 states over a 4-yr. period of touring the country, ending December 2009.
Although the bus tour has now concluded, The Partnership for Prescription Assistance program itself is continuing to help people without prescription coverage obtain the medications they need. Through the PPA, over 6 million Americans thus far have been able to receive their prescription drugs for free or nearly free.
For more information on this exciting and worthy program, please visit: www.pparx.org (The tour's chronology appears below.)
After 9 months, the PPA "Help is Here Express" has covered more than 50,000 miles. The hugely successful tour has been extended throughout 2006 and with a second bus now on the road, we will visit all 50 states between January and June of 2006.
UPDATE: June 1, 2006 Having joined the PPA's efforts as national spokesman for the tour in January, Montel Williams (TV host, author, actor, activist) makes regular appearances nationwide on behalf of the ongoing project in addition to having filmed a number of television commercials for the PPA. He is pictured here at a recent Colorado event. The photo (right) was taken at a Montel event featuring both buses in Tampa, FL.
In addition to touring the continental U.S., PPA bus tours are also now planned for Alaska and Hawaii. |
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August was a landmark month for LogiCom and the PPA Bus Tour. Visiting Hawaii and Alaska marked the 49th and 50th states on the tour; logging more than 125,000 miles and visiting more than 500 U.S. cities to date. The tour, which is slated to run through December of 2007 continues to bring much needed assistance to those who cannot afford to pay for their prescription medicines.
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At the PPA Fairbanks event, Ken Johnson, PhRMA Senior Vice President for Communications, mushes the 4-time Iditadod dog team from Martin Buser's Happy Trails kennel.
The PPA “Help is Here” Bus Tour closed their 2006 campaign with a two-bus event featuring Montel Williams in Nashville, TN today. The gathering marked the 630th city visited by the PPA tour in 2006. During this past year, more than $5.1 billion worth of medicines were provided to more than 2.5 million people through the Partnership. Plans for the PPA 2007 bus tour have been confirmed and both buses will once again be rolling all across America continuing to bring prescription assistance to those who need it most.
LogiCom is pleased indeed to serve in a continuing managerial role for this worthwhile endeavor.
UPDATE: June 12, 2007
The PPA Bus Tour continues to roll. In the past 25 months, the two big orange buses have traveled more than 200,000 miles (the equivalent of eight times around the globe) and visited more than 1,500 cities. The program has provided almost $10 billion worth of medicine to nearly 4 million people. Neither the partnership nor the bus tour shows any signs of slowing down as, on average, each bus visits 10 towns per week. LogiCom continues to be very proud of our association with this very worthwhile project. The tour, which is slated to run through December of 2007 continues to bring much needed assistance to those who cannot afford to pay for their prescription medicines.
On April 6th, 2009, the PPA celebrated it's 4th anniversary at an event in Galesburg, IL with Jerry Mathers, of television's "Leave it to Beaver" fame who is diabetic and serves as one of PPA's celebrity spokesmen.
The program has helped more than 5.7 million people since its introduction. With over 500,000 miles driven in all 50 states and an astounding number of patients being matched with programs to pay for their prescription medications, the PPA should cross the milestone of having helped 6 million people later this summer.
LogiCom is honored to play even a small role in this worthwhile endeavor, and continues to manage the nationwide bus tour on the PPA's behalf.
On October 22nd, The Partnership for Prescription Assistance reached the milestone of helping the 6 Millionth patient in the four years since the program's launch. The "Help is Here" bus tour has visited more than 3,000 cities and traveled in excess of 350,000 miles in its quest to reach all uninsured and under-insured Americans.
Today's event, held in Harrisburg, PA, featured one of the PPA's spokesmen, Pittsburgh Steeler great, Jerome "The Bus" Bettis (pictured with Ken Johnson, Senior VP, PhRMA, who has directed the PPA). LogiCom's Steve Robinson (photo right) has managed logistics and staffing for the 2-bus nationwide tour since the program's kick-off in April of 2005.