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Fitness for duty plan would pull millions from road

Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by rookietrucker, Apr 16, 2009.

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Apr 19, 2009 #21

Markk9 "On your mark"

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TruckerLlew said: ↑

A few simple effective fixes for this.

Remove the junk food from the t/s convenience stores.

Remove the fast food joints.

Remove the buffets.

Cut the amount of food in an average dinner serving at a real truckstop restaurant.

6 months of eating healthy and most truckers will drop a lot of their weight. This is one industry where food consumption needs to be regulated by the government.

I know a lot of you will disagree with that.

I couldn't really care less.

Our weight and health problems are loud and clear testimony that a lot of truckers have food consumption problems. The government needs to step in and take control of what truckstops and convenience centers sell or at least the way it is offered. The truckstops and convenience stores will not do so. They make too much money on keeping us trashed out and unhealthy. Since they won't do it, then they need to be made to do it...

It's plain from walking around any truckstop that those of us who are very overweight have a problem which we deal with in an apathetic way.

It's so simple to say that we dont need any regulation on that while we eat our twinkies and pizza and french fries. It is plainly evident that us overweight fat unhealthy truck drivers have no sense of self control. We are unable to or UNWILLING to eat healthy because of the convenience factor of junk food and fast food availability and our own stubbornness to do what needs be done. It's our addiction to food that keeps us from being healthy.

The government wants us to be healthy, then they need to step in and crack down on the cause, not the effect of unhealthy eating. Making the rules more stringent may need be done but they need to fix BOTH sides of the problem. Not just the drivers side.
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Spoken like a true socialist..................

Mark

Markk9, Apr 19, 2009

Markk9, Apr 19, 2009

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