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Business
Cancer prevention: Use sunscreen on exposed skin
Few drivers report regular sunscreen use while hauling. Just 6% of readers use such products routinely, though 10% reported filming side windows with UV-protecting layers to block nearly all UV light.
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
Channel 19
More on sun exposure and cancer risk, ways to prevent and a personal story of cure
Malignant melanoma can be very aggressive, traveling fast to other places in the body, but when the notion arose that the condition was a totally incurable one recently, Andrea Marks of TruckerNation took some exception — she’s been cancer-free for quite some time, following a 2007 initial diagnosis….
July 17, 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
Overdrive Radio
40 years of trucking — and surviving — with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)
Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and she’s been on the road since. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear her reflections on her 40-year career, many of those spent as a single-truck owner-operator, as well as her recent involvement in FMCSA’s Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.
June 28, 2019
Overdrive Radio
‘The sun will hunt you down’ in the truck: Joe Jolly on skin cancer risk
58-year-old Joe Jolly, following removal of a small spot of an aggressive type of skin cancer from his upper lip, offers a word of caution for younger drivers. Anything you can do to protect yourself from damaging ultraviolet radiation while trucking over the road today will pay dividends in later years.
June 14, 2019
Life
Skin cancer: What you need to know
A general understanding of what to look for and how to prevent it is your best defense in fighting the disease.
August 12, 2013
Channel 19
UV protection and FMCSA’s window-tinting clarification
FMCSA said that “truck drivers, fleet owners and managers can install a protective window film with over 70 percent net Visible Light Transmittance (VLT) on the side windows of trucks weighing over 26,001 pounds.”
May 8, 2012
Business
LogBook
The Arrow Truck Sales 2012 Back on the Road winner is named, the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners is required, a woman’s rescuer is named Goodyear’s Highway Hero, cargo theft increases and other industry news items are featured.
May 1, 2012
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