text: Trenton Lewis, 21, goes the extra mile for his job at UPS. Actually, it's several miles. In order to start loading trucks by 4 a.m,, Lewis starts walking from his home in downtown Little Rock before midnight. 
   
   "It will probably take me two-and-a-half or three hours," said Lewis. 
   
   In the rain or cold and through some rough areas of town Lewis walked. He never missed a shift and was never late to work. 
   
   "I had music in my head. I was just walking, not worried about nothing, I was just moving my feet," said Lewis. "[My job] got more important to me. When I had my daughter, I knew I had to step up. I didn't have a job when she was born," said Lewis. 
   
   Patricia Bryant worked with Lewis in the loading docks. She mentioned Lewis' daily trek to her husband Kenneth Bryant, a veteran driver at UPS. 
   
   "Man, that's got to be a dedicated young man to walk to work," said Bryant. 
   
   He started collecting donations from other workers at UPS. 
   
   "I was like, 'It's coming together, It's coming together, slowly," said Bryant. 
   
   Eventually, he collected $1,900 and found a reliable car. 
   
   "That's actually the third car because a couple of them fell through," said Bryant. 
   
   Bryant even went so far as to fix a nick in the front bumper because he wanted everything to be perfect for the big surprise. The group told Lewis it was a union meeting in the parking lot. Then, Bryant reached into his pocket. 
   
   "He just pulled some keys out of his pocket, and I'm like 'That can't be mine. Those keys cannot be mine.' He brought them to me and my heart just dropped. this can't be real," said Lewis. 
   
   Nowadays, Lewis leaves for work at 3:30 a.m. 
   
   "It feels good because it's just me and the car. I don't have to use my feet no more," said Lewis. 
   
   No more long walks, but definitely some lasting friendships. ||||| Every day for the past seven months, UPS worker Trenton Lewis has been waking up at midnight to make it to his 4 a.m. shift loading trucks in Little Rock, Arkansas. 
   
   Lewis, 21, didn't have a car, so he walked to work -- for five miles -- no matter the weather. The new father said he was doing it for his baby daughter. 
   
   "[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." 
   
   KATV 
   
   The proud dad has never missed a shift in the seven months and was never late to work, according to KATV. 
   
   When his UPS co-workers Patricia and Kenneth Bryant found out about Lewis' long walk every day, they came up with a plan to help. The Bryants collected donations from other co-workers and bought him a Saturn, which cost just shy of $2,000. 
   
   When they surprised him with the keys in the UPS facility parking lot, last week, Lewis said he had no idea about their plan to buy him a car. 
   
   KATV 
   
   He said his first reaction was, "Those keys cannot be mine." 
   
   "He brought them to me and my heart just dropped," Lewis said. "This can't be real." 
   
   Trenton now leaves for work at 3:30am, he said, allowing him sleep in and give his legs a break. ||||| LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK/KXAN) — Every day, Trenton Lewis, 21, walks 5.5 miles from his home to his job at the UPS center in Little Rock, Ark. And then he makes that trip back home. 
   
   Lewis says he gets up in the middle of the night to get to work by 4 a.m. Sometimes he would get rides, but most of the time he walks. He’s had the same routine for the past seven months. 
   
   “I don’t want to miss work at all,” Lewis said. “I wanted to be with my daughter, to be able to support her. I wanted to be a father.” 
   
   Lewis didn’t tell many people how he got to the office, but Kenneth Bryant found out. 
   
   “If someone has that type of determination, I’d be willing to help them,” UPS clerk Kenneth Bryant said. “We just wanted to lend somebody a helping hand.” 
   
   Bryant started asking around to see if coworkers would pitch in and buy Lewis a car. 
   
   “That’s a young man that wants to work and will do whatever it takes to be successful,” Bryant said. 
   
   After seeing his hardship, his co-workers teamed up to buy Lewis his own car. 
   
   “They were astonished that someone would get up at that time of morning, at night, and walk to work that far,” Bryant said. 
   
   Eventually the coworkers raised $2,000 for a car and in a Facebook Live video, Lewis’ work family surprised him with the keys to a car. 
   
   “This is my first car,” said a shocked Lewis. “I have great, awesome coworkers. I had no idea. I guess they are very good secret holders.” 
   
   Now, Lewis has his keys, a UPS keychain and a new car, thanks to his coworkers. 
   
   “I knew things were going to get better if I kept coming to work so, that’s just what I did.”
target: – Trenton Lewis has never missed a shift and never been late for his 4am shift at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Ark., a dedication driven by his love for his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen, per CNN. His attendance is even more impressive when you consider his wakeup time and commute: Lewis rolls out of bed at midnight and then, as ABC News notes, "in the rain or cold, through some rough areas of town—he walks." And it's a 5.5-mile journey one way for the 21-year-old single dad, reports KXAN, adding that Lewis has been doing this now for seven months. Lewis tells KATV he didn't have a job when Karmen was born, but when she entered his life, "I knew I had to step up." His pride kept him from mentioning his daily walk to co-workers, but Patricia Bryant, known as the "queen bee" of the UPS site, discovered Lewis' secret—and then, along with her husband, Kenneth, set out to find a way to make things easier for Lewis. They did so by pooling together nearly $2,000 from colleagues and using it to purchase a used Saturn for Lewis, which they presented to him at a gathering they told him was a "union meeting." "Those keys cannot be mine," he recalls thinking when they revealed the surprise, per KATV. His new leave time from home each morning: 3:30am, giving him a few more hours to sleep in. "I knew things were going to get better if I kept coming to work so, that's just what I did," Lewis tells KXAN.