Driver Health Walk

Our organization The Trucking Solutions Group Drivers Health Council has been working very hard with Driver Health and other organizations to have the first fun walk at MATS.  We have been having weekly conference calls for several months finalizing arrangements and we have some great sponsors I want to start sharing.

Our main sponsors are HTAA (Healthy Trucking Association of America), MATS (Mid America Trucking Show), Ramp Media, and Driver Health Magazine.  Without this main group of sponsors there would be no need for any sponsors and the walk would not be happening!  Scott Kinley, and Owner Operator Tanker Yanker leased to Landstar, came up with the idea for a Health Group.  Scott knew that a few of us, including himself, have been focusing on our health and he thought we should get together to share information.  I was discussing information about our group with my youngest daughter, Brandy, and she said "You know you guys all go to the huge truck show. Why not have the group sponsor a walk?" Neither she nor I had any clue what the words would start!  Our first step was to contact Driver Health Magazine and editor Andy Shefsky, and this turned into a snowball that has not quit rolling. Andy's father, Marvin, contacted MATS who stepped up to the plate with insurance and an area to walk and even a room for a pre and post warm up and cool down area.  The walk is not about raising money; the walk is about bringing recognition to drivers' health.  I hope to see lots of drivers walking as well as anyone involved in the trucking industry.  Together we can raise the median are of a drivers life expectancy up from 61!

Check out the sponsors and register here:

http://driverhealth.org/DH/HealthWalk.cfm