The stereotype is that truckers are lazy. The truth is that truckers are working themselves to death. We spend hours at work everyday not getting paid and not logging it. The result is that the 16 hour day is more common than the 8 hour day. The consequences are that drivers over caffeinate, under exercise, eat on the run, and die about 15 years younger than the general population.
Trucking publications have been encouraging truckers to adopt healthy lifestyle changes. That is great. But it solves less than half the issues. Clark attacks the whole problem. Truckers are being killed by a system that is abusing them. As a veteran trucker Clark has seen the problem. Hey, We're Dying Out Here offers practical solutions. Clark's ideas can save truckers. By saving good drivers we can improve or remove bad ones and make the highways safer for everyone.
About Jeff Clark
Clark has been a trucker, salesman, Sunday School Teacher, businessman, warehouseman, marathon finisher, son, husband, and grandfather.
When he was 46 he was told that he had serious heart disease. At 47 he finished his first marathon. At 48 he read a statistic. Truckers were dying 15 years younger than average Americans. At 49 he has combined all of the above in publishing Hey We’re Dying Out Here, The Truth Behind the Trucker Shortage.
The stereotype is that truckers are lazy. The truth is that truckers are working themselves to death. We spend hours at work everyday not getting paid and not logging it. The result is that the 16 hour day is more common than the 8 hour day. The consequences are that drivers over caffeinate, under exercise, eat on the run, and die about 15 years younger than the general population.
Clark has been a trucker, salesman, Sunday School Teacher, businessman, warehouseman, marathon finisher, son, husband, and grandfather.