Trenton Lewis, 21, walked for three hours every morning, for seven months, to get to work on time for his 4 a.m. shift at UPS in Little Rock, Arkansas. When his co-workers found out the young dad was walking nearly 11 miles roundtrip to get to work, they surprised him in a major way.  

Lewis' co-workers, wife and husband Patricia and Kenneth Bryant, stepped up and collected $2,000 in donations from other co-workers to gift the young dad with a car earlier this month, KATV local Little Rock, Arkansas ABC News reported. 

Kenneth Bryant told CNN that he was inspired to pitch in because of Lewis' determination to get to work. 

"For a young person to decide in their mind 'if I don't have a ride, if I can't get a ride then I'll walk,'" Kenneth Bryant said. "If a guy can do that, we can pitch in to help."

Bryant gathered a group of Lewis' co-workers together in the parking lot of the UPS facility. He told Lewis the group would be having a "union meeting," CNN reported. But when Lewis arrived Bryant delivered a speech admiring Lewis' determination to get to work. Bryant then presented the young dad with keys to a 2006 Saturn. 

Lewis told KATV that he was motivated to walk to work everyday when his daughter was born. 

 

"[My job] got more important to me when I had my daughter," Lewis told ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock. "I knew I had to step up. I didn't have a job when she was born."

Lewis said his "heart just dropped," when he was handed the keys.