WEL...you better not have a physical limitation

I actually understand this sentiment. It doesn't offend me in the least. I'd leave my menopausal self at home and go out on the road without me if it was at all possible.

I also miss having a memory. It left when my little "personal summers" began.


Okay..a question: if everyone else and their brother gets their affliction classed as a disability and gets to park in the handicap zone why the HECK don't menopausal women????? huh huh? someone want to answer that?


Like I said : 0-2 seconds

 

ROFL

I point at people and then where I want them to back up to. Seriously!!! I just sit there in my truck and stare at them, then point. 99% of the time they move to where I pointed.

I am Menopausal Woman!!! It's like having super powers but sadly using them for evil not good. LOL


And I'm still slowly getting to the point of not caring what people think. I've been a "people pleaser" all of my life. This forum has broken me of that a great deal.

 

Not intended to offend.

I am not even going in the direction of where you are treading.

 

Nana, that's why I went into my thing. BMI was mentioned several times under "rumor" information AND there WAS a mention of "overweight." Not to mention that the BMI chart IS geared to the overweight!

We also have to admit that "overweight" and obesity" has been in the news a lot lately and sometimes above the fold!

And let us NOT forget that this life style CAN lead to these very problems! WE eat, sit and maybe for most of the OTR crowd not get jack crap of any kind of exercise. We all know this and what do we do about it? Nothing! Well I'd say 99% of us! And some even fall victim to the "belief" that unloading a truck is exercise! It's not! It's WORK, it does not get your heart rate up and keep it up for a recommended amount of time unless all of the pallets are off the truck, lined up and you try to break a sweat doing a break down maybe once or twice a week. That's not what any doctors call or the experts of exercise recognize as real exercise! It's a repetitive working movement that does not cover all the needed things of real exercise!

By August 7,2009 when I was finally "forced" out by a medical problem I saw very few drivers doing a brisk walk around the truck stop, I saw even fewer bicycles on the back of a sleeper and I never saw any drivers in the few gyms that popped up at t around truck stops! I did keep seeing the same driver on my dedicated route doing his jump rope in front of his truck before he went in for his shower but because we live this sedentary life style we're all doomed to being "threatened" with unemployment because we don't take being overweight as a medical problem about to become worse! Yes it's your "Right" to be this way but it's the companies "right" to put some stupid, as some see it, standards in place for their employees.

I'm not going to "preach" but I will put it bluntly. It's you against them. They will win as they hold all the cards! That insurance company can and will throw you under the bus and your company will just pull off the top of that two foot tall stack of applications for some skinny person to fill that seat as they watch their rates drop for each "vertically or "horizontally" challenged" driver they have canned. That's life as the song goes. It also means that if you see no problem with being overweight then you'll need to get that down payment for that truck so you can keep driving without the problems of a BMI (yet), a physical aptitude test (yet) and an insurance company dropping you but you're still stuck with that problem as you still need medical insurance and they DO look at your weight!
Maybe as I just had a talk with my son about this and Peoples "responsibly" with taking control of their life (as the stupid news article of a moron suing a software company because he's addicted to their game! or another moron suing a hamburger chain for him being FAT for eating all their menu every day!) It's how you control yourself that's going to be how your life is going to change when FMCSA decides that your weight decides if you are "eligible" for this job.

Now as to the "limb" or eye or hearing. They are already covered by FMCSA! Has been for many years along with high blood pressure and diabetes. We know with the missing limbs if they can do the job it's a done deal. if their vision falls into a parameter as with their hearing then all's well. With the high blood pressure and diabetes it can be controlled with meds AND proper intake of calories and proteins and yep, exercise. But what if they DO put that dreaded BMI up as a rule? Aren't to many miracle weight loss pills that actually work and aren't a scam! The BEST way to "control" weight is your intake! (OK I'm going to sound like an arse again) That's the first thing and lets NOT throw a glandular problem in this fight as that dog ain't barking here! Glandular is a different fight anyway. This is an "intake and control" problem with no exercise to control the caloric intake!

How many times have you watched a driver come in and almost pull a chair up to the buffet? How many times have you watched them come in and put enough food on a plate to feed 3 men then go back for seconds? And the same for women?

OK so you like what you see in the mirror and so does your husband or wife or lover, but again it's not going to be your decision in the near future. It's take control now and get somewhere below that stupid BMI killer number and a bit lower and forget all this ! it's a hard decision like me quitting smoking after 39 years of being stupid but yeah I had a hard time but it was worth it in the long run. It's nowhere close to losing weight but training myself to do something different is what counted.

 

You've had Menopausal Survival Training!

 

I wonder if I passed?


But, they did say you should never ask.

 

Well, I mentioned overweight when speaking of my own journey and having to "train" myself physically. As an overweight person I do think weight plays a part in a person's ability to do many different occupations and yes I think truck driving is one. Frankly I believe that someone fit and athletic can do the job physically better.....BUT I believe that I might be more emotionally fit than some buffed out 21 year old.

I think the nation has gone a bit overboard with the BMI but I also believe if a person can't do the job........then frankly they just can't do the job.

*yes I carry a lil ladder to climb into the trailer because I'm a Princess.....but if I don't have my ladder I can hoist my big over the hill rump up there*

 

You must have; your wife hasn't killed you........




























































yet

 

The day is not over and worse yet, I do not leave till someday Monday or might be home all next week.

 

If what you say is true, and I'm forced out for my wide posterior, I will become a DM, a cruel taskmaster to the thin and underfed! I dispatched over 20 years. They could care less if you eat three fatty meals on your 8 hour shift!