Infographic: Where truckers rank on obesity compared to other occupations

Overdrive Staff
Dec 21, 2014

The Wall Street Journal published the infographic below this week, showing truck drivers, according to the American Journal of Medicine, rank on the obesity scale compared to other occupations. Click here to see the WSJ article

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