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

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Given our ongoing “Healthy Trucking Initiative” and our health-oriented theme for this issue of Inside Trucking Online, it seems appropriate to run some healthy famous quotes, most of which are deadly serious.

“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.”
– Mark Twain

“Health is like money; we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.”
– Josh Billings

“Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.”
– Oprah Winfrey

Market Changes Fuel the Path to Better Retention

By Duff Swain

With slow economic activity and fuel prices at an all time high, many trucking companies are beginning to feel financial pressure. According to Avondale Partners research, 935 trucking companies filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2008, displacing a record number of qualified drivers. But for the companies surviving this economic downturn, an increase in the number of available experienced drivers offers an opportunity to improve the fleet.
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Improving Your Drivers’ Quality of Life: The Four Keys to Better Drivers’ Health

Sponsored by SIRIUS Satellite Radio

For millions of drivers, the most significant step you could take to help them improve their quality of life is to help them improve their overall health and wellness. In this first installment of “Improving Your Drivers’ QOL,” we’ll identify four keys to improving most drivers’ overall health and well-being: 1) good nutrition, 2) fitness, 3) managing stress and 4) quitting smoking. Making smart choices in these areas can have a major positive impact on a driver’s health and quality of life.

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None of Your Business? Think Again

By Jack Kelsh

“Doc, I’m in no shape to exercise!”
That’s what I said to my doctor during a DOT physical when he asked me if I had an exercise program, because at the time I was over 300 pounds and rising. He didn’t much like my answer, although he laughed a little at first.
He said that I was a heart attack waiting to happen.
–blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, blood sugar, etc. – were far from ideal, to say the least. My energy level was compromised, as was my ability to simply move around.

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Sleepless in America

Before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1880, people slept an average of 10 hours a night. Now Americans average just 6.9 hours of sleep on weeknights and 7.5 hours on weekends, compared to the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep. When you fail to get adequate sleep, you expose yourself to risk, says Dr. Greg Belenky, a sleep expert at Washington State University.

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My Point: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Marvin Shefsky
- Publisher

The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) recently released the results of a survey of 16,000 new truck drivers. One of the statistics that jumped out at me was this: Within a year of graduating from driver school and getting their CDL, only 3 percent of the 16,000 student drivers surveyed were still driving for the company that originally hired them coming out of school.

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Driver Sound Off

No one ever said that driving a truck was an easy way to make a living. Like any job, it has its ups and downs and twists and turns. Most drivers figure that out and learn to roll with the punches that inevitably come their way. There are pluses and minuses to the business, and as long as the pluses outnumber the minuses, drivers tend to stick around. With that in mind, Over the Road and Pro Trucker magazines recently asked a handful of over-the-road professionals the following question:

What do you like the most and the least about your job?

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How Can You Support Women In Trucking?

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?”

First, if you are not already a member of the Women In Trucking (WIT) Association, please consider joining (www.womenintrucking.org/). The larger our organization, the more influence we can have in both industry and legislative areas. The non-profit organization was formed to represent all of us who want to see more women involved in all aspects of trucking. Membership is not limited to women only, as WIT is not just for women; it is about women.

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