Trucks and Truckers

January 3rd, 2013

Healthy Payday

Why good health is good business for truckers

By Timothy D. Brady

According to a recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, transportation workers have the highest obesity rate of any industry in the nation — 37.8 percent. Three years ago, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine published a study of nearly 3,000 truckers that found 85 percent were overweight and 55 percent could be categorized as obese.

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January 2nd, 2013

Weather the Storms

Keep your truck in shape for the dark, cold days of winter

By Homer Hogg

Operating a large vehicle with heavy cargo is dangerous year round, but during the winter additional safety precautions are necessary. Key truck components and systems must be maintained so that they operate at peak capability during these dark and cold months.

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December 31st, 2012

Coupled Truckers

These drivers got hitched soon after meeting

I met June at C.R. England. She was already a really experienced driver but she was teaming with someone who was not up to par. We were both helping train people at the time, and then we kind of just got together. It happened quick! We just knew we were a fit.

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December 31st, 2012

Road Scholar

Learning history, math, selling and more while traveling across I-80 in Dad’s truck

By Doug Donnelly

He may have been Honest Abe, but Abraham Lincoln got me into some hot water when I was in the first grade. I was only 6, but I was a veteran of the road. I had been across America and back several times, all from my seat perched high above the passenger-side wheel of a cabover Peterbilt.

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December 31st, 2012

Fine-Tuning A Favorite

Freightliner brings its Cascadia up a notch with Evolution

By Paul Abelson

A few years ago, Freightliner introduced the Cascadia. Developed in the company’s wind tunnel in Portland, Ore., it was touted as the most aerodynamic — and therefore fuel efficient — conventional tractor ever.

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