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“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.”

– B. C. Forbes (1880-1954), editor and founder of Forbes Magazine (1917)

What About Your Drivers’ Health?

By Dan Baker

I work with a lot of trucking companies as a speaker, facilitator and consultant, and consequently I get to know them pretty well. The people who live and work in the trucking business are some of the greatest folks in the world.
Many times, as I work with a trucking company, I am reminded of the old statement I learned in the Methodist Ministry many years ago: “It’s the stuff you don’t see about yourself that bites you in the rear end.” In our busy world of too much to do and not enough time to do it in, we have time only for the most basic, obvious metrics for determining our overall company’s health. We look at our revenue, our costs, our cash and our accounts, and then we figure our operating ratio. We keep our eyes on our equipment, our fuel, our driver turnover and our customer situation, and if there are no new fires burning in the operations department, we go to lunch.

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By Jack Kelsh

A trillion dollars here, $40 billion there, another $100 million for this and that. Everything seems to have a price tag attached to it, and it all adds up.
I recently conducted a series of seminars for a large mining corporation. I was one of several presenters, so I had an opportunity to eavesdrop on some of the other speakers. The topics ranged from tires to trust. My topic was about safety through wellness and how wellness relates to economics in the workplace. My audience had little to do with the trucking industry, but there are many parallels. The concerns are the same: safety, cost efficiency, productivity, etc.

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Sleep Apnea: What Every Trucking Company Needs to Know

By Wendy Sullivan

When I was in nursing school more than 33 years ago, who knew I would develop a passion for the treatment of sleep apnea in commercial drivers? It is funny where life can take you and why, but I have no doubt I was meant for this industry at this time!

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Deadline Nears for TCA Driver-of-the-Year Nominations

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) announce that its annual Company Equipment Driver of the Year contest will be enhanced this year by the addition of a spectacular new prize for the first-place winner: a Dodge Ram truck powered with a Cummins engine.

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My Point: Join Us on the Healthy Pathway

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

I know what some of you must be thinking: This is supposed to be a driver recruitment and retention newsletter, so what’s up with all of these stories on driver health and wellness? The fact is – and as many of the stories in this issue point out – driver health is not only one of the most important issues facing the trucking industry at a time when the nation’s fleet of drivers is aging, it is also one of the most important issues from a driver retention standpoint.
Sure, we all know that drivers want more miles, more money and more home time. We also know they want more respect and to be “treated like a person and not a number.” Along those same lines, they also want to know that the company they work for cares about them, which brings up some key questions:

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Driver Sound Off

Times are tough. The economy is either nearing a recession, in a recession or struggling to come out of recession; fuel prices are sky high; home foreclosures are through the roof; and just about everyone is on edge, wondering how they’ll make ends meet in this volatile economic environment. The trucking industry is suffering right along with the rest of the country, perhaps even more, because high fuel prices disproportionately impact it. With that in mind, Over the Road and Pro Trucker magazines asked a handful of professional truckers the following question:

What are your thoughts on the economy, and how has it impacted you?

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What do Women Drivers Want?

By Ellen Voie

Most of us recognize the need to support women in the trucking industry. We want to encourage more women to consider a career as a driver, mechanic, safety director, dispatcher, broker or more. How can you, as an individual, make the trucking industry more “female friendly?”

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