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Tampa, Florida -- Labor Day was a good day for Denise Perez. It's been one year since the single mother of three has owned a car, but now she's holding the keys to her own set of wheels thanks to Wheels of Success.

TAMPA - Wheels of Success and the Ryan Nece Foundation is holding the sixth annual Working Wheels to Keep Families Working event on Labor Day.

TAMPA -- Ashley McDuffie can hardly wait to get her first car. Each morning, McDuffie, 20, and a former foster child, must get her 1-year-old brother, whom she has custody, to day care and try to make it to Hillsborough Community College. But the bus schedule often makes her late for her classes, where she is pursuing an associate's degree in child care.

Wheels of Success holds its sixth annual Working Wheels Keep Families Working event at the Tampa Convention Center on Labor Day.

The average Tampa commuter spends a little more than twenty minutes in their car each day traveling back and forth to work. Last year, Forbes magazine ranked the Tampa Bay area as the single worst metropolitan area in the entire United States for commuting. It seems as though the flying cars we were promised as kids won't materialize any time soon, leaving our intrepid automobiles the task of taking us to and fro, idling in traffic on I-275 or breezing through side streets via "secret" shortcuts.

Wheels of Success is a unique non-profit organization whose mission is to provide reliable personal transportation to help working families through a program of car repairs, vehicle replacement and assistance with car related licensing services so that they can keep their job, find better employment, increase their work hours or use the vehicle to also get to school.

Former Tampa Bay Buc -Ryan Nece teams up w- Wheels of Success

Former Tampa Bay Buc, Ryan Nece teamed up with Susan Jacobs of 'Wheels of Success' and EMPOWERED 55 families over this Labor Day Weekend event. TV Host 'H' John Mejia from 'Good Life Tampa Bay' TV show covered the story.

Posted by H John Mejia on Thursday, October 7, 2010

Former Tampa Bay Buc, Ryan Nece teamed up with Susan Jacobs of 'Wheels of Success' and EMPOWERED 55 families over this Labor Day Weekend event. TV Host 'H' John Mejia from 'Good Life Tampa Bay' TV show covered the story. — with Ryan Nece and Susan Jacobs.

A friend once asked if I knew the two saddest words in the world. After too many guesses, he offered a simple answer: What party?

Hands Across The Bay is teaming up with Wheels of Success for a fundraiser to benefit full-time working families who need reliable transportation to get to their jobs.

Posing with a car veteran Chris Neloms received through the Wheels of Success program are, from left, Susan Jacobs of Wheels of Success, Neloms, Linda Craig of Manasota Operation Troops Support and Devon Jarrett, coordinator of the Operation Military Assistance Program at Jewish Family and Children's Services.