Tag: Fit for the Road

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Learn healthy habits while attending GATS
To help truck drivers develop ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle, the 2015 Great American Trucking Show features the Landstar Fit For the Road Health and Wellness Pavilion.
August 21, 2015
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Operator to train in CNN’s Fit Nation program this year
“I was on my way back to Texas and didn’t have a webcam,” says Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller about the circumstances in which he filmed what has become a winning entry to take part in CNN’s 2012 Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge. “I pulled off the interstate, went into a Walmart and bought what […]
January 28, 2012
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Heads-up: NY Times on truckers’ health
The U.S. newspaper of record, the New York Times, devoted significant ink to many truck drivers’ moves toward improving their health in their Monday edition. The primary feature, by Abby Ellin and well-illustrated with pictures of many of the drivers she talked to, charts a rise in concern among industry associations, trucking companies, truck stops […]
November 22, 2011
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New health blog from the folks at Con-way Truckload
Attendant to news that Con-way TL-leased owner-operators will be able to access relatively low-cost health/dental and other insurance offerings via the carrier’s new TrueChoices benefits program, the company also is highlighting drivers’ and owner-operators’ health needs via a new blog. Steering Your Health today features a great recipe for Mexican Crock Pot chicken, cooked in-cab, […]
August 25, 2011
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Aug. 26: Truckers to race at Dallas show
5K run shines spotlight on truckers’ health and demonstrates how even small changes to diet and exercise can result in big payoffs.
August 23, 2011
Truckers and others race during the 2010 event.
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Big Rig Run spotlights health, fitness
5K run shines spotlight on truckers’ health and demonstrates how even small changes to diet and exercise can result in big payoffs.
July 11, 2011
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Driver ‘health movement’ hitting stride
On the blog of the U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a shout-out was posted yesterday to the Heathy Trucking Association of America and the Trucking Solutions Group 61+ Driver Health Advisory Committee’s health walk at GATS last week, which I wrote a little about in advance of the show. Held at the Dallas Convention Center on […]
September 3, 2010
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Rolling out to Dallas ‘Too Hot to Trot’ 5K
Well, folks, I finished — no surprise to regular readers, I’d guess, since you’ve seen a little proof I can do some long-distance running. Get over a couple miles, though, for me, and it hurts. Add to that the constant walking around the show floor at the Great American Trucking Show (picture from the bobtail lot) here in Dallas […]
August 27, 2010
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NPR looks at truckers’ health issues and regulation
A radio story on regulators’ scrutiny of truckers health aired last week Friday for a larger than usual audience — on NPR by reporter Frank Morris out of station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. He introduced the heart — or stomach — of the story quickly: “Outside the Iron Skillet restaurant on I-70 east of […]
August 4, 2010
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A Jazzy Jordan racecar design; more from the run
Since Jasmine “Jazzy” Jordan completed her run across the United States to benefit the St. Christopher Truckers Development & Relief Fund, haulers around the nation have used the internet to send out mini-tributes to her historic effort, from posted pictures (such as the one here from Robert Curran, of Jazzy signing his flatbed) and anecdotes […]
July 21, 2010
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