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Lyndon Finney, Editor
DIABETES PREVENTION-MAINTENANCE
PROGRAMS NOW SPECIALIZING THEIR
SERVICES FOR TRUCKERS
Kay Pfeiffer of TrueLifeCare conducted her first Mid-
American Trucking Show seminar this year. She’s
becoming a regular at high-profile trucking industry
events, spreading the word about the growing problem diabetes
poses to the trucking industry.
At MATS, she opened her presentation by listing several
celebrities who have diabetes: Mariah Carey, Drew Carey, Billie Jean
King, Larry King, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and others. The subtext was
that diabetes can be found in every walk of life and it doesn’t need
to be a debilitating illness. Once she had the audience’s attention,
she explained how TrueLifeCare helps truckers fight the disease.
Representatives from Omada Health were at MATS, too, giving
diabetes screenings in conjunction with the Healthy Truckers
Association of America (HTAA) and the American Association of
Diabetes Educators (AADE) to deliver a diabetes control program
offered free to qualified truckers through a grant by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. “In the last year, all the trucking
companies I’ve talked to, it’s seems like they don’t understand or
they’re just in denial or they’ve never explored it,” Pfeiffer said. “It’s a
huge safety issue.”
She comes to these conversations prepared with harshly
enlightening statistics. Diabetes cases have risen 700 percent in the
last 50 years. In 2015, 30.3 million Americans had diabetes, and the
number is growing by 1.5 million every year.
Unchecked, diabetes gives you almost a 70 percent chance of
heart disease or stroke, about a 30 percent chance of blindness and
about a 60 percent chance of needing an amputation.
It is also estimated that more than 84 million Americans age 18
and older are what is known as prediabetic — their blood sugar level
is higher than it should be but falls below diabetic levels. Of this
group, about 30 percent will likely become diabetic.
What’s worse is that of the approximately 550,000
drivers who know they are diabetic, only about
one in four are testing their blood sugar levels as
recommended by their doctors.
“There’s an awful lot of people out there that are
driving trucks that should not be driving because
they’re not testing,” Pfeiffer said. “If you have diabetes
and you’re not testing, you’re driving at night without
headlights.” With Type II diabetes, the body either fails to
produce enough insulin or becomes resistant to it. Type
II diabetes accounts for more than 90 percent of diabetes
diagnoses, and it is mostly brought on by lifestyle.
The bad news for truckers is that the stereotypical
trucker lifestyle is the perfect formula for diabetes
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— too much stress, too little exercise, poor sleeping and eating
habits and the obesity that comes with it. Although getting fat
doesn’t automatically set you on the road to diabetes, it is a
primary risk factor.
“Being overweight, having high blood pressure, having heart
disease, all of those are co-morbidities,” Pfeiffer said. In other
words, they aren’t necessarily tied, but where you see a lot of one,
you see a lot of the others.
The good news about Type II diabetes is that what lifestyle
choices create, lifestyle changes can fix. Type II diabetes can be
controlled and even reversed. This where the programs offered
by TrueLifeCare and Omada Health come in.
With TrueLifeCare, participants sign up through their
company as part of their medical benefit package at no cost to
the employee. They are assigned to a registered nurse who is
trained as a behavioral health coach, and they receive glucose
testing supplies. They also have access to meal planning and
recipe resources, as well as diabetes educational materials.
During the first month, participants interact frequently with
their coach as they get started.
After the first month, participants who consult with their coach
at least once a month continue to get their testing supplies for free.
Omada’s program is a digital adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention
Program, which was borne out of a 2002 study by the National
Institutes for Health. But for people like truckers, being able to attend
regularly scheduled meetings is out of the question. With the surge
in communications technology in recent years, that problem had
disappeared. Omada began about seven years ago to create a program
so that drivers can sign up and “attend” meetings anytime, anyplace.
The first step is to go to the Omada website, and take a simple
quiz to determine if you have enough risk factors to be eligible
for the program. Once accepted, participants are mailed a digital
scale synched to an online health profile. They are also assigned
a health coach and to a group with about 25 statistically similar
participants. For 16 weeks, participants will keep track of their
food intake, exercise and weight, and each week there is a new
lesson about nutrition, exercise or improving on unhealthy
habits. Participants can interact with their group or with their
coach throughout the program.
Michele Geraldi is an Omada coach. She explained the
program focuses on four lifestyle categories: nutrition, exercise,
sleep and stress. Inadequate sleep and too much stress are often
overlooked factors to overall health, Geraldi said, but both can
be detrimental to the body’s chemistry, and either can prevent
weight loss even if the person eats right.
The same goes for advice about exercise, Brickman added.
After a long day behind the wheel, “Even when you stop, you’re
probably not going to feel like, ‘hey, go for a run.’” Instead, Geraldi
explained, “We’ll talk about fitting little bits of exercise here and
there that will add up — walking, lifting stuff.”
Driving with a head cold is one thing, but considering that
diabetes symptoms include unusual fatigue, tingling extremities
and blurred vision, presenteeism becomes a dangerous
proposition.
To find out more about TrueLifeCare, visit TrueLifeCare.com.
For more on Omada Health, including their online quiz, visit
Omadahealth.com.
“We’re saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars
and we’re saving people’s lives, and getting them to where they
don’t need insulin, and don’t need medication and don’t need an
amputation,” Pfeiffer said.
“It’s all your choice. If you choose not to manage your diabetes,
your diabetes will manage you.”
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WIT June Member of the Month Dana
Achartz stickler for safety
The Trucker Staff
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eferring to distracted driving, “One bad decision
can change the course of your entire life,” said Dana
Achartz, Women In Trucking’s (WIT) June Member of
the Month.
A safety representative for Great West Casualty Company in
Illinois, Achartz has been involved in the trucking side of safety
for some 10 years — not too surprising considering that her
father was an LTL driver when she was growing up and later in
life took a desk job on the safety side of things. Her grandfather
was an OTR driver.
Achartz said technology is advancing safety in the trucking
industry but that distracted driving on the part of all motorists is
the biggest roadblock to safer highways.
Talking on a cell phone while driving gives the driver “tunnel
vision,” she said. “Most accidents can be
prevented.”
From White Bear Lake, Minnesota, she
belonged to the Minnesota Trucking Association
(MTA) for eight years and since moving to Illinois
a year and a half ago, joined the Illinois Trucking
Association, where she’s a member of their
safety council, as well as the Midwest Trucking
Association.
With MTA she co-chaired a Share the Road
program educating students on the cusp of
getting their driver’s licenses about how to drive
around big trucks and derived great satisfaction
from hearing students who were talking
disparagingly about big trucks change their
tunes after getting up in a Class 8 truck cab and
seeing the road from that perspective.
She said driving and safety programs in many
schools are outdated and that safety advocates
need to make sure driving around big trucks is
Achartz said technology is advancing safety
in the trucking industry but that distracted
driving on the part of all motorists is the
biggest roadblock to safer highways.
Courtesy: Women In Trucking
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added to schools’ safety education.
And, she said if just one student got the message about
not talking on a cell phone while driving and safely navigating
around big trucks it will save lives down the road.
Speaking of safer roads, the 36-year-old said, “We’ll get there,
maybe in my lifetime.”
Her first job was a safety log auditor monitoring truckers’ logs.
If they falsified a log she made them rewrite it correctly and
followed up. And, she wouldn’t let them be dispatched with a
load until they fixed it. She was 24 at the time.
“I’m a nice girl, but rules are rules.”
She’s been on long ride-alongs with man and wife team
drivers, one of which made an especially deep impression on
her.
The drivers each had a truck and at night she slept in the
woman’s truck while the woman slept with her husband in
his truck. On one such night it was below freezing and the
APU in her truck went out. Rather than interrupt the truckers’
mandated rest she put on every available piece of clothing she
had and “sucked it up,” adding she was glad she didn’t disturb
their sleep.
She has seen first-hand
what drivers encounter
on the road and how bad
weather, traffic and other
problems out of truckers’
control can throw a monkey
wrench in their Hours of
Service.
“When I started my
career,” she said, “ELDs had
just hit the market; I’ve been
familiar with them since day
one.”
And while she thinks
they’re a good thing, she
knows drivers don’t operate
in a perfect world and that
“in my opinion shippers
and receivers should run
more 24/7 or stick to their
appointment times” with truck drivers.
Achartz would like to see more women get into the trucking
industry as drivers or in some other capacity since she loves the
industry so much.
“I’ve had conversations with people back home and they think
it’s a man’s industry. I joined the industry 10 or 12 years ago and
I know women can do this. It might be intimidating as a woman
to get into something like this but I love it. It’s a great industry
and it’s a great way to make money and support your family.”
She was at WIT’s first Accelerate Conference in Dallas
and since joining WIT has recruited many women to join the
organization.
“I had heard about them and was excited and curious to meet
other young professionals and to see the challenges they go
through and what works for them,” she said. “I was intrigued.”
Achartz was set to get married in mid-July and said she’s
“super excited.” In fact, she seems to stay pretty excited about
her work and life, period.
“God has blessed me; I couldn’t be happier,” she said.
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FEATURE
TESLA'S AUTOPILOT ENGAGED
DURING UTAH CRASH
By Julie Hatem
The driver of a Tesla electric car had the vehicle's semiautonomous
Autopilot mode engaged when she
slammed into the back of a Utah fire truck in the latest
crash involving a car with self-driving features.
and not to rely on it to entirely avoid accidents. Police reiterated
that warning May 14.
A Tesla spokesperson did not comment following the disclosure
about the use of the feature.
On Twitter, co-founder Elon
Musk said it was “super messed
up” that the incident was garnering
public attention, while thousands
of accidents involving traditional
automobiles “get almost no
coverage.”
South Jordan police said the
Tesla Model S was going 60 mph
when it slammed into the back of a
fire truck stopped at a red light. The
car appeared not to brake before
impact, police said.
The driver, whom police have
not named, was taken to a hospital
with a broken foot. The driver of
the fire truck suffered whiplash and
was not taken to a hospital.
The 28-year-old driver of the car told police in suburban Salt
Lake City that the system was switched on and that she had been
looking at her phone before the crash.
Tesla's Autopilot system uses radar, cameras with 360-degree
visibility and sensors to detect nearby cars and objects. It's built
so cars can automatically change lanes, steer, park and brake to
help avoid collisions.
The auto company markets the system as the “future of
driving” but warns drivers to remain alert while using Autopilot
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FEATURE
“What's actually amazing about this accident is that a Model
S hit a fire truck at 60 mph and the driver only broke an ankle,”
Musk tweeted. “An impact at that speed usually results in severe
injury or death.”
The National Transportation Safety Board has not opened an
investigation into the crash, spokesman Keith Holloway said,
though it could decide to do so.
Over the past two months, federal officials have opened
investigations into at least two other crashes involving Tesla
vehicles.
Last week, the NTSB opened a probe into an incident in which
a Model S caught fire after crashing into a wall in Florida.
Two 18-year-olds were trapped in the vehicle and killed in
the flames. The agency has said it does not expect the semiautonomous
system to be a focus of that investigation.
The NTSB and the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration are also looking into the performance of the
company's Autopilot system in the March crash of a Tesla Model
X on a California highway. The driver in that incident died.
In March, an Arizona pedestrian was killed by a self-driving
Uber car, in the first death of its kind.
A driver was behind the wheel of the
test vehicle in that case but failed to
halt in time.
The investigation into the crash in
Utah is ongoing, police said.
The driver of the Tesla may face
charges for failing to maintain the
safety of her vehicle, which would
be a traffic infraction, according
to police spokesman Sgt. Samuel
Winkler.
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