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Show Your Drivers You Care! Put a Healthy Trucking Kiosk in Your Terminal

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Show Your Drivers You Care!
Put a Healthy Trucking Kiosk in Your Terminal

Study after study demonstrate that, as a group, over-the-road professionals tend to live unhealthy lifestyles and suffer more than their fair share of medical problems, including high blood pressure and related diseases such as diabetes. As the collective state of the nation’s truck drivers’ health has deteriorated, progressive carriers are looking for ways they can positively address the problem and help improve situation.

What better way to show your drivers that you care about them and their health than by putting a Healthy Trucking blood pressure monitoring machine in your terminal or headquarters so drivers and other employees can easily and conveniently check their blood pressure for free? More than 30 leading trucking companies have all ready done just that, and the results have been impressive. Not one of the companies has returned a machine; better yet, they report that the machines are in constant use and serve as a potentially life-saving monitoring device while bringing the carrier’s drivers and office workers closer together on common ground: BP numbers and health.

Collectively, the 100 BP kiosks installed at truck stops are being used 150,000 to 250,000 times per month. While the BP machines at terminals can’t quite match those numbers, we have heard reports that they have replaced the water cooler as the “meeting place” for truck company office workers and drivers alike. You will be amazed just how much this machine will be used and appreciated by all your employees, particularly your drivers.

For more information about joining the Healthy Trucking Initiative and setting up a Healthy Trucking blood pressure monitoring machine at your company, contact Andy Shefsky at 678-739-0928 (direct), 800-878-0311 x2108 (toll free) or ashefsky@otrprotrucker.com (e-mail). It’s easy, it’s a great investment in your drivers and other employees, and it may just end up saving someone’s life.

The Ramp Media Group, publishers of Over the Road and Pro Trucker driver recruitment magazines, as well as Inside Trucking Online, is proud to be out in front on the crucial issue of driver health. Along with the 30 or so BP kiosks we’ve arranged for carriers, our Healthy Trucking Initiative includes setting up BP kiosks at more than 100 truck stops across the country.

The major commitment RAMP has made to improving drivers’ health is not only the “right thing to do” on a human and moral level, but also a pro-active approach to addressing the trucking industry’s notorious driver retention problem. We don’t need to tell you how costly it is to replace a driver when you take recruiting, training and downtime into account. It is far more cost-effective to focus on retaining the drivers you have rather than replacing the ones you lose through “churning.” One of the best ways to do that is by offering your drivers unique benefits such as wellness programs and BP machines to help them maintain their health.

Healthy trucking leads to happy, stable, more productive drivers. Give Andy a call today and set your company off on a healthy course.

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