Hello World! Welcome Friends! A healthy driver’s life should be at the top of every company’s list. Driving a truck is hard work. The driver spends up to 11 hours a day sitting behind the wheel and crossing long distances.
It can be exhausting and can greatly affect their health. Drivers also spend long periods of time outside their homes and far from their families. They have to work at night, on weekends and on holidays.
The job of a professional truck driver leads to a life rhythm that is erratic, stressful, and unhealthy. The very nature of work is sedentary, and work often proves difficult or monotonous when they spend hours and hours behind the wheel, so they rely on huge amounts of caffeine and unhealthy foods to gain little energy. Another problem is rest and breaks; very often they have to eat, shower, and rest at one stop. With this text, we will provide six life tips for truck drivers.
Healthy Diet
Maintaining healthy eating habits and fitness is difficult enough for everyone, but it is even harder to maintain them while working on the road. Choosing the right diet and fitness while transporting goods often seems impossible, but truck drivers can make different choices.
Nutrition science actually recommends eating five or smaller meals a day. They should be light, fat-free, and rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber. When eaten less often and in larger quantities, it slows down the metabolism and sends a signal to the body to store calories instead of burning them, which leads to weight gain. The way truck drivers eat is just as important as the type of food they eat when it comes to maintaining a healthy weight.
Protein and fresh, unprocessed foods help maintain driver alertness, unlike carbohydrates and sugars, which can provide a short burst of energy followed by prolonged lethargy.
What to Do in Case of Accident?
It is very important that when we find ourselves in a traffic accident, we are calm and act in accordance with the law and ethics. First of all, the participant in the traffic accident and every participant in the traffic who is on the spot is obliged to protect himself and prevent new suffering. Thus, he may be able to help others who were injured in an accident and provide an effective rescue. Having in mind that, as truck accident law experts at blumenshinelawgroup.com state, trucks have a greater potential to cause harm, you should be even more careful. As a truck driver, you have a large responsibility that corresponds with the risk, so being careful behind the wheel may be the ultimate factor in saving someone’s life.
Good Rest and Sleep
Sleep is essential for mental and physical well-being, especially if you are practically forced to live in the cab of your truck. To be effective during the day, drivers need to have a quality mattress and pillow. Rest, in addition to positively affecting safety and clarity while driving, is also essential for a healthy driver’s life.
Avoid the Stress
This is perhaps the most difficult thing to do: stay calm and avoid stress. However, this aspect is also necessary to prevent health problems.
How to avoid stress? Use tools, including technological ones, that can help you work, such as GPS. Another good way to relieve stress is through music.
Preparation of the Truck
On longer distances, the truck is subjected to more stress than usual, often loaded to the limit, and in a relatively short time exceeds high mileage in different conditions- rain, wind, altitude, bad road… So we recommend that you or a car mechanic who maintains the vehicle perform a small test before the trip, which means visually looking at the tires, wipers, signal lights, door locks, and whether oil or liquid is leaking from the radiator. Be sure to check the brakes, change the engine oil and oil purifier before a long trip, and always bring a liter of spare oil.
Transporting Hazardous Materials
In addition, truck drivers need to be well-informed about how hazardous materials should be stored and packed. For example, some such gases and liquids can require special packaging, like different types of COPVs. By ensuring that you get familiar with the proper packing of hazardous materials, we can help keep everyone on the road safe.
Comfortability
Take some time before you go to make sure you are comfortable. The slightest inconvenience at the very beginning of your journey can later turn into serious pain.
When we say to check if you are comfortable, we mean, for example, keeping your back pockets empty. Sitting on your wallet, phone, keys, or anything else can disrupt your spine and posture.
There is no best position, and it may take a little effort and trial and error to find what works for you.
We wish you a happy and safe trip and hope that at least some of these tips will help you increase your safety and comfort while crossing those kilometers.
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