Accomplishments

  Check TPA was the first fraternal association to request and lead the way to have a center lane divide our highways.  
  Check TPA was one of the first fraternals to insist that steel passenger-cars replace wooden passenger-cars on the railroads.  
  Check TPA was largely responsible for the creation of a Federal Department of Safety.  
  Check TPA was responsible for the Interstate Commerce bill creating the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903.  
  Check TPA promoted the Absent Voter Act - 1916 (Absentee Ballot System), and also promoted the Federal Sanitation Law.  
  Check TPA strongly urged compulsory drivers training and education in the schools.  
  Check TPA helped push for compulsory motor vehicle inspection each year.  
  Check TPA was strongly behind the requirement that drivers be examined every 4 years.  
  Check TPA Homer T. Wilson Fund for Indigent Members, Widows, Widowers and Orphans assists members and families in financial need.  
  Check Our Child Safety program, inaugurated in 1946, has proven to be a tremendous asset in each and every one of our communities.  
  Check Our Community Service programs, since 1966. enlists additional personnel for a more complete civic interest in our communities.  
  Check Since the organization of TPA in 1890, approximately 29 million dollars has been paid in death benefits to members and their beneficiaries.  
  Check TPA assists schools to develop and maintain crossing guard programs.  
  Check Scholarship Trust for the Deaf and Near Deaf, inaugurated in 1975, helps hearing-impaired children and others needing financial assistance.  
  Check CHAD (Children Have An iDentity) program, taken over and expanded nationwide in 1994.  
  Check Officer Ollie's Safetyville USA, created in 1996, a series of safety programs brought together under one roof to educate children and adults by incorporating fun, learning and community spirit into a one day interactive village.