Beware the 18 Wheel Killers

It's a well known fact. Every day 14 people in America are killed in trucker linked accidents - scores more seriously injured. Every single day.

It is another fact that the average American trucker will not live enough time to gather social security.



The profile of the greatest quantity of sleep apnea sufferers, poor diet, overweight, poor health practices, fit the profile of your typical trucker who actually makes truck stop buffets a contest, and takes less time for sleep than those that aren't paid by each mile.

Nationwide medical studies find that seven of 10 truck operators classify as being obese. One Midwest transportation company recently described their situation as being even worse than that. Their own CEO said he believes nearly half of his truck drivers were identified as being morbidly obese.



An advertisement by the Sleep4Safety.com group in the current issue of national transportation magazine Driver Health(circulation 100,000) states that death is not a form of retirement and asks its truck driving readers, are you aware the typical trucker will die before their 61st birthday? Sobering and certainly food for thought when you glance in your rear view mirror at the eighteen wheeler coming fast behind you.



Sleep4Safety CEO Sigurjon Kristjannson contends an eighteen wheel truck piloted by way of a sleep-deprived driver could be as deadly as a drunk driver going the wrong direction on the interstate. Consider, he suggests, that three of each and every 10 truckers you see on the road today probably have the situational attention equal to having .06 to .08 alcohol within their blood system. They are, in a very real sense, he states, driving intoxicated - not an drinking fueled intoxication, but one created by chronic lack of sleep. Consider, how far an 18 wheeler, traveling 60 mph, travels in that brief moment the operator nods off and what can happen in that brief time.



Dr Jeffrey Durmer, Atlanta, identified in the publication as "Dr Sleep" and also the Chief Medical Officer at Sleep4Safety wants to employ sleep testing to recognize those drivers with sleep apnea problems and then on-the-job treatment. Driver Health publisher Andy Shefsky writes that his goal is to raise the average truck driver life span age from just shy of 61 to 77, to the average American life expectancy.

Accomplishing this will require 18 wheel pilots to eat well, exercise, and check to ensure, as easy as it sounds, they're getting enough proper sleep. And, if not, to accept non-intrusive treatment at work.



The price of failing to achieve this, goes far beyond the equipment repair and replacement to the staggering medical bills, soaring insurance costs for the companies to the 14 people who, every day, lose their life from a trucking accident among each three being the trucker himself.

Get enough rest and hope that trucker approaching in back of you also did.



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