health and driving tips for carhaulers, cottrell owners, and truckers

Newsletter Summer 2012

Greetings,

As a country, health in the workplace has become an important issue. As medical technology flourishes, we have found new ways to stay healthy. Trucking is no different. Staying in the best shape possible while in your Semi can add years to yourlife or make your trip more comfortable. This newsletter talks about some of the issues, and solutions, to maintaining our health on the road. Some of the issues offer simple fixes. Others are more complicated. Either way we are moving in the right direction as the trucking industry is beginning to tackle these concerns. As alwaysthank you for reading and please send in your thoughts.

Sincerely,Michael SaksEditor of [email protected]

I N T H I S I S S U ENew Driver Health Segment

Driving & Fatigue

High Capacity Rollbacks

DRIVER HEALTH With all the talk about cargo theft, dangerous roads, endless regulations, and fuel worries, it is easy to overlook the most important topic of all...you. Taking care of your health, especially when on the road, WILL make the difference in the quality of your life today and in the future. For many of us that is easier said then done. The stress of work and the huge demands on our time and energy make fitness and health more like wishful thinking than actual habit. Well before you can even begin to change your health, you need to know what your health is. Now there is an easier way for drivers to do this.

I just read that Stayhealthy and Rollingstrong.com are providing multiple health detection machines in a number of locations accessible to drivers. The machines can do everything from monitor your blood pressure to test your eyesight. For a sample of how the machine will work you can go to an interface demo at: http://kiosk.stayhealthy.com/%28S%

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Make sure to look out for these machines on your next road trip!

http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id=77109

DRIVING & FATIGUEIt would appear the 24 hour compulsion society is catching up to us....especially in thetransportation industry. According to a News-Medical.Net story, the transportation industry has a large number of exhausted professionals. According to the article:

14% of truck drivers say they had a "near miss" due to sleepiness

on top of that about one fourth of all truck drivers claim that they do not have enough time for the necessary amount of sleep. The article went on to give tips on how to improve your sleep but I was not really satisfied with this as the only solution. Yes, sleep tips are great. Yes, more naps and routine sleep scheduling will help us solve the immediate problem of a truck driver staying awake during a long haul.

It does not really solve the root cause of why truckers, and according to the article, pilots (terrifying), train operators, bus drivers and taxi drivers are exhausted. The pace of business, the demand for everything right now, and the level of competition for employment is driving transportation professionals to work harder and harder.

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No one forces themselves to stay on the road after they are exhausted by choice. I doubt any driver set out with the intention of falling asleep on the road. They stayed on the road because they have too. People put themselves on this work treadmill because society demands they do.

The real problem is we need to look at the impact the recession treadmill is having on everyone. The constant pressure of ashrinking economy is driving all of us to push ourselves past our limit. That is where we need to focus if we are going to remove exhausted drivers from the road.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120304/First-poll-to-ask-transportation-professionals-about-sleep-habits-and-work-performance.aspx

HIGH CAPACITY ROLLBACKS

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Sincerely,

Michael Saks, Internet Commerce ManagerEast Coast Truck and Trailer [email protected]



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