“Nurses risk their vehicles and their safety to get to work all the time,” he said.

Whetsel said several people have contacted the group with financial donations as well, which was unexpected. The club intends to donate those funds to the American Cancer Society through the club’s annual Camp Jeep event fundraiser.

“I am a nurse at LGH and thankfully I am off this weekend; however, I am grateful for this awesome service you are offering to my coworkers and would like to make a donation on their behalf. Where can I do this? Thank you again for providing these folks some peace of mind and ensuring our dear patients will get the care they need,” Tricia Grant Ragland, wrote on Facebook in response to the Seven Hills Jeep Club post.

“What great people!!!,” Donna Houck Hartless wrote on Facebook in response to the club’s post.

Whetsel said he got the idea because he regularly offers to give his mom and her fellow nurses rides to and from work at Gastroenterology Associates of Central Virginia.

When he told her what he wanted to do, he said, “She was just proud, you know, my family’s been really supportive.” He said this kind of thing isn’t out of the norm for his family.