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To: dragnet2

This may help you.

The average company driver in America earns 42k gross. He spends, on average, 48 weeks a year away from home, family, friends. Her costs, on the road, average $31.00 per day.

Truckers are 60 times more likely to suffer a heart attack by the age of 50 than non truckers. Cancer strikes truckers 20 times more frequently than non truckers. Joint and back injuries are the number one debilitating illness for truckers, ending the careers of approx. 20k per year. There are approx. 8 million class A & B CDL holders in the U.S., and only 3 million active drivers. Less than half are over the road drivers.

1 in 4 truckers have a HS diploma. 1 in 10 have a college degree.


172 posted on 09/11/2007 6:40:44 PM PDT by papasmurf (I'm for Free, Fair, and Open trade. America needs to stand by it's true Friend. Israel.)
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To: papasmurf

“Truckers are 60 times more likely to suffer a heart attack by the age of 50 than non truckers. Cancer strikes truckers 20 times more frequently than non truckers. Joint and back injuries are the number one debilitating illness for truckers, ending the careers of approx. 20k per year. There are approx. 8 million class A & B CDL holders in the U.S., and only 3 million active drivers. Less than half are over the road drivers’

I wonder what % of truckers smoke. That could be the reason for cancer and heart attack rates.


594 posted on 09/12/2007 6:41:00 AM PDT by Sunnyflorida ((Elections Matter)
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