Man who started walking 20 miles to work given a car by his boss

College student Walter Carr was stuck. His car broke down the day before he was to start a new job with a moving company called Bellhops. The home scheduled to be moved was 20 miles from where Carr lived in Birmingham, Alabama. 

In search of a ride in the morning, he reached out to friends. No one could help. Carr did the only thing he could think of - he started walking at midnight, determined to be on time for his first day on the job. 

A few hours into his trek, he sat down in a parking lot to rest. A police officer drove up and asked what he was doing sitting in an empty lot in the middle of the night. When Carr explained his plan, the officer, Mark Knighten, offered breakfast and a ride toward his destination. Carr accepted both. 

After breakfast, Knighten drove Carr closer to his work site, but had to drop him off because of a shift change. He promised to tell the next shift officer of Carr's situation in the hopes that he'd be able to offer transport too. Carr waited for a time, but concerned that he'd be late, started walking again. 

Officer Scott Duffey caught up with Carr a while later and drove him the last four miles to the job site. When they arrived, Officer Duffey approached Jenny Lamey, the homeowner who was readying for the move. He told her he had a 'great kid in the car' who had been walking all night to get to her house. Lamey started to cry. She offered Carr some food and a place to take a nap, but Carr declined. His Bellhops co-workers had arrived and he said, "I'd rather get started." After the job was completed, one of the co-workers gave Carr a ride home.

The next day, Lamey called Carr's supervisor to praise the committed young man. She also started a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $2000 for Carr's auto repairs. As of this writing, over $91K has been pledged. 

Even more amazing, word of Carr's dedication reached Bellhops CEO Luke Marklin in Tennessee. Marklin called Carr and offered to drive down to Birmingham to meet him for coffee. That's when Marklin presented Carr with his own 2014 Ford Escape. Bellhops “...set a really high bar for heart and grit and … you just blew it away,” Marklin told him.