BMI chart, better learn to live by it.

By Jason Cox

BMI or Body Mass Index, is this going to change truck driving? I know it will, because this is a big problem in trucking today.

Truck drivers get very little exercise, so I know this will become a factor in being able to drive a truck or not. According to this chart I bet most truck drivers today would be disqualified.

Now before my “fan club” starts making their “crude remarks” I will say that I am “overweight” and am probably not a good source to telling drivers to watch what they eat. I like Mcdonalds the same as everyone else does. But, today I decided that was going to change. No, I am not going to change to Subway, but I am changing my eating habits.

I started last week actually, as I quit drinking any kind of pop. I changed to “Green Tea” and or water. I mean, I smoke a pack and half of cigarettes per day, and I am over weight. Does this mean I am NOT healthy? No, it doesn’t mean that. I do not take high blood pressure pills, nor any kind of pills for that matter. I have never had a trace of high blood pressure.

The reason for this article was brought on by something I saw today on the internet at a trucking companies website. PRIME Inc. started as one of their many requirements, a BMI requirement, Must be less than 39. This got me to thinking, if MORE trucking companies follow suite as so many do. There is going to be a LOT of OUT OF WORK truck drivers.

This going to become part of the DOT required physical soon as well. As doctors are already looking into the effects of “sleep apnea” and truck drivers. One way they can tell if you are a canidate for “sleep apnea” is by looking at your neck size. Also they can determine by your weight and BMI.

So don’t be surprised within the next year or so, you don’t see most companies following suite and adding this to their requirements.

Source: Examiner.Com

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