Thousands of trucks travel the roads of Texas every day carrying anything from produce to electronics.

Unfortunately, some vehicles are used for human trafficking. The group Truckers Against Trafficking has taken it upon itself to encourage professional drivers to join the fight.

Earlier this month, Texas Attorney General's Office Chief Prosecutor for Human Trafficking Kirsta Leeburg Melton spoke at the National Association of Publicly-Funded Truck Driving Schools' regional conference at Del Mar College's West Campus in Corpus Christi.

Calling truck drivers “the eyes and ears of the state of Texas,” Melton said at the conference that there are more of the former than there are police officers or state troopers, KRIS 6 News reports.

“[Truck drivers] go places and they see victims that no one else sees,” she said.

Melton further encouraged those attendees who are driving instructors to extend an invitation to join TAT to their students. According to her, knowing what signs to look for can save the life of a trafficking victim.

"They can make a call to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and they can save a life," the prosecutor said.

Melton helped establish TAT in 2009. She said its members have assisted in the identification of nearly 1,200 victims. There are reportedly 313,000 human trafficking victims in Texas by Melton’s estimate.

She said that each attendee is determined to make a difference.

The attorney general’s office calls human trafficking “modern-day slavery.”

"It is the exploitation of men, women, and children for forced labor or sex by a third-party for profit or gain,” the attorney general's website states.

Three years ago, Attorney General Ken Paxton formed the Human Trafficking and Transnational/Organized Crime Section to fight human trafficking statewide. It has trained more than 25,000 people in person across the state and assisted in numerous prosecutions of human trafficking cases resulting in multiple felony convictions and 441 years of prison time for traffickers in Texas, according to the agency's website.