Driver health
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News
Getting the right specs for driver comfort
Understanding all of your options when it comes to improving driver comfort
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Driver issues
Commentary: Truck drivers are aging… or are we entering a golden age in trucking?
Sandeep Kar has written a thought-provoking article about changes in trucks and how those changes affect truck drivers. He also writes about what the future…
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Driver issues
From yoga to cooking in the cab, a healthy lifestyle starts with the choices drivers make
FreightWaves spoke to a few of the presenters offering solutions to get some tips on what drivers might be able to do to maintain a…
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News
Rolling Strong and Enrollment First partner to prioritize drivers
For many drivers, health tends to take a back seat—yet the job remains a dangerous combination of days that can be both sedentary and stressful.…
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Convoy
Welcome to Your Highway to Health
The health and wellness of professional truck drivers is an increasing concern. This issue was ranked as the 8th most important in the industry by…
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Driver issues
Today’s Pickup: Rolling Strong, higi roll out new driver health program
Health company higi is opening up resources at its 11,000 self-screening health stations to truck drivers who are members of Rolling Strong for free biometric…
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Driver issues
Amid driver health crisis, Rolling Strong gamifies wellness
Rolling Strong's app can you tell exactly what you need to do every day to pass your DOT health exam.
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Economics
Battling the high costs of driver fatigue
The numbers are startling: 250,000 U.S. drivers fall asleep at the wheel each day; 83,000 drowsy-driving related crashes occurred between 2005 and 2009, and there…
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News
Health movement reaches truck stops
Long-haul truck drivers don’t have the best rep when it comes to embodying a healthy lifestyle. Much of this reputation has to do with the…
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Fuel
Getting fit on the road
A 2014 report found that drivers are more than twice as likely to be obese than the general population, and there are a number of…
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