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Business

‘CoachCarolyn’ O’Byrne now offering three audio courses toward driver self-help

Author (Gut Instinct), life coach and colon hydrotherapist Carolyn O’Byrne has released three new audio courses aimed directly at highway professionals who are looking for ways to improve their physical and mental health, and/or kick tobacco.

September 18, 2019

Business

When the sun bites back: Skin cancer risk, prevention for drivers

Longtime drivers and others urge haulers to guard against skin cancer that can comes from excessive left-side exposure. Says one: “If you’re going to be sitting there bouncing down the road all day, you better get something on your skin to protect you from the ultraviolet rays.”

September 13, 2019

Overdrive Extra

One trucker’s somewhat mixed feelings on the hours of service proposal

Clifford Petersen on the hours proposal: “I will say definitively … that yes, we need greater flexibility. After all, we are professionals, and no one knows our needs better than we do. Still, there are areas that need clarification …”

August 28, 2019

Channel 19

Getting outside for exercise not an option? Portable stepper machine fills the gap for this operator

Earlier this year, trucker Martin Hill and his wife put to use a new stepper machine in the truck, which weighs about 15 pounds and utilizes hydraulic shocks to provide resistance, and comes with resistance bands for the upper body that can be employed as well.

July 31, 2019

Voices

POLL: Do you protect your exposed skin with sunscreen routinely on your hauls?

What’s your strategy for skin protection — if any at all — while you’re trucking? Weigh in via this poll and/or the comments section.

July 10, 2019

Business

Study: Drivers at higher risk of heart disease, obesity

Transportation industry employees have a 52% incidence of obesity, higher than the national 38% according to a new white paper released by Atlas Injury Prevention Solutions.

June 13, 2019

Voices

Readers split over abortion restrictions, legality

Though evenly divided on the broad question of legality, most readers were generally nuanced in their views around the issue of states’ abortion restrictions, some favoring restrictions after the first trimester or other time period. More than a third favored the Roe v. Wade status quo.

June 12, 2019

Channel 19

Over-reliance on GPS leads to ….

We’ve all heard the stories of trucks stuck on pedestrian bridges, old covered bridges, cowpaths, logging roads to nowhere … but a British author recently threw down a new marker for where humanity’s over-reliance on turn-by-turn navigation might be leading. There’s good news for most truckers, too …

June 6, 2019

Business

‘Truckers Fund’ and country star team up on wellness promotion initiative

The multi-platinum selling artist Joe Nichols lost his truck-driving father at a young age from job-related health issues. Now, Nichols has inked a partnership to do “anything and everything I can to help St. Christopher and their cause.”

May 20, 2019

Business

Trucking Law: Returning to driving after a heart attack

Dr. Alexander E. Underwood details how to return to work following a heart attack, as well as why a urine sample is required during a DOT physical.

April 18, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Cultivating happiness in work: Time for a new approach

“For truckers who already have the deck stacked against them when trying to maintain health, poor work performance as a result of stress can have deadly results. This reality goes largely unaddressed by many carrier support structures, and drivers begin to feel more like a number, or a cog in a giant machine that is eating away their lives.”

March 18, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Choose professionalism to define, and create, your value

Choose to be a professional and you will create value, and you will know what your personal value is worth when it is time to ask for a raise, search for a company to call home, or negotiate that contract with the broker or shipper business partner.

December 11, 2018