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- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/symptoms-causes/syc-20377631
- https://www.mdmag.com/conference-coverage/chest-2017/the-sleep-apnea-problem-for-truck-drivers
- https://www.truckinginfo.com/279732/dealing-with-obstructive-sleep-apnea-in-trucking
- http://talkcdl.com/big-carrier-stats-including-fatalities/
- http://talkcdl.com/prime-inc-suing-amazon-prime/
- http://talkcdl.com/trucker-crash-stats-hos/
- http://talkcdl.com/fatal-crash-interview-with-a-trucker/
- http://talkcdl.com/what-a-truckers-wife-thinks/
How did this happen
Slaap Apnea does it even matter? About 20 years ago truckers started hearing from company doctors that they had sleep apnea. They were asked by the doc if they snored. If the driver answered ‘yes”, then the doctor told them they had the sleep disease. Thay also started measuring truckers necks and if it was larger than 17 inches, they got the bad news also. Meanwhile the prior 100 years in trucking had thousands of drivers with big necks that snored. Sleep apnea is like one of those other subjects floating around out there, you know like “Global Warming”. Thats right, we hear about global warming all the time but we have experienced some of the coldest temperatures on earth in the last decade. They told you all about it for many years but there really was no proof. The same thing with sleep apnea has been hanging around for many yers now. Well I want to see the proof. I want to see where men that snore are wrecking more. I also want to see the large neck drivers statistics. I would like to see the end results of this disease they have coined to be ” sleep apnea”.
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