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HTAA: Shot in the Arm for Drivers’ Health and Business

By Jenny Shefsky

For more than two years, RAMP Media Group – publishers of Over the Road and Pro Trucker along with Inside Trucking Online – has been reporting extensively on the issue of drivers’ health and the pressing need for the industry to do something about helping the nation’s drivers improve their failing physical condition. Now RAMP has taken its health-oriented initiative a step further by becoming a charter sponsor of the new national trucking industry association dedicated to helping over-the-road professionals get healthy and live longer lives. 

The Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA) is a non-profit organization devoted to improving the health of our country’s drivers and trucking fleets.

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Trucking’s Biggest Winners

By Jack Kelsh

You might recall that on the second weekend in January there was a major ice storm that hit the Northeast again. Unfortunately for me, my path of travel coincided with its path of travel. I remember it was 22 degrees and raining before it finally turned to snow. I was headed west on I-80 across Pennsylvania. As with any such storm, I fully expected to find that a number of trucks had slid off the roadway, but as it turned out, I did not see a single big rig accident in the state.

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What do we know about women in trucking?

By Ellen Voie

Most of us would agree that there are more women employed in the trucking industry today than in the past, but do we really have a grasp on the advances women have made in this predominantly male dominated industry? How can we use statistical information to better understand the differences between men and women in transportation?

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My Point: Walk the Talk on Drivers’ Health

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

If you’ve been reading this column over the last two years, you know we’ve talked to death (bad pun) the issue of drivers’ health. While we understand that there are many trucking industry issues that merit attention – starting with the elephant in the room, the economy, and its enormous impact on the industry – we make no apologies for continually focusing on drivers’ health and wellness.

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Drivers Sound Off

The issue of drivers’ health is gaining attention from all corners of the trucking industry.

With that in mind, Over the Road and Pro Trucker asked a handful of drivers the following question:

How do you stay healthy on the road?

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Shippers Turning from Trains to Trucks?

North America’s railroads have laid off thousands of workers, cut hundreds of millions of dollars from capital spending programs and stored tens of thousands of idle freight cars. Just like motor carriers, they’ve done everything they can to cut costs. However, rail carriers have hiked rates and are enjoying a sizable net income gain.

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Tonnage Index Rises 3 Percent in January

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index climbed 3.0 percent in January 2009, marking only the second month-to-month increase in the last seven months. Is this the beginning of the end of the recession?

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