I was talking last month with a trucker about the renewed focus on driver health. He described himself as an aging driver who sat on his worn-out butt most of his waking hours, legs numb from extension, blinking into the glaring asphalt, living “cheeseburger to cheeseburger.”
“The DOT wants to make sure you’re fit to drive a truck. Studies are telling us how bad our health is,” he told me. He