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.
