Gordon Trucking Inc.

Well. I know I am an O/O however I am quite certain although I am overweight I can work circles/lump freight faster than a lot of the skinnier guys. Just before all you know it alls chime in.. Guess what just because your skinny doesn't mean your "in shape" Thank you and have a nice day.

 

OMG...there's overweight, there's obese and there's 'how the heck does he even get in that truck'....If he/she can do their job.....LEAVE THEM ALONE.
If we're going to 'ban' all overweight people from driving a big rig, let's ban all SMOKERS from driving a big rig. (and YES...I smoke).
Granted, there are some grossly overweight people out there driving big rigs, but again, if they can pass their DOT physical and they can perform their job duties..leave them alone!!!!!!!

 

eat a salad and get in shape, and if you smoke, give it up. whats the big deal ?

 

Bad thing about being real overweight is getting in and out of the cab.Suppose he or she falls,that could lead to a massive heart attack.I think there is such thing as being too overweight to drive trk.Nothing wrong with alittle heavy but almost too the point of morbedly obease,they should'nt drive trk.

 

Like someone else said...lots of companies are doing this and more now. My husband has some extra weight...not LOTS...but he needs to loose some and we are working on it. But anyway the company he is at did their own physical (he just got a new physical but they wanted their docs to look at him) but no one was singled out EVERYONE had to do the same stuff...lift tests, TREADMILL test, and some other stuff too...so dont feel like they are just picking on you...companies are trying to protect themselves from workers comp claims and such.

Loosing weight is not that hard...it is a lifestyle change...first and formost.

 

I wouldn't be worried about the physical as much as I would the apnea test... how do heavier drivers avoid those?

 

I don't think you can avoid such test.Company requires to take it then you must take it I reckon.

 

well your in shape i have driven for 32 years i have whent to many funerals of truckers i new and met for years. most of the over weight truckers iv met was out of trucking before they killed anyone because there suger put them out. more after cdls came in to law .they use to let people with diabetic use insulen until cdls.over weight people come in many shapes . ill take a company 0f say 2500 trucks give them all that bmi test where they check your hart beat pulse after you work out .i bet 80% fat and skiney would fail. so what im getting at is proble 10 to 15 drivers out of some 2 to 3 hundred i meet or new died in there trucks and they where skinney. just last year 2 died i new 40 years and 43 years old died of hart failer and was skinney. over weight people are no more a problem than skinney . we all are under the gun so the insurance companys can tell them how to hire . and drivers from all over the world are coming here to work cheaper and send all the money they can home.check the junk yards on i40 . california base plates. thats your real danger not over weight people . remember we are not arobics instruckters .and sitting for miles to be ontime is what it is about.omg iv stoped smoking and eating and even with that the test they are doing put older workers out of work.thats just fact....

 

again you can be skinney and sleep apnea . i have it , and i have a wiring problem its not just fat or over weight .i seen one person where i get checked they redused his tung..

 

how are over weight people a burden.you dont pay there bills or no there hole family could have been big people . there are fat jeans.