Trucking

This from engadget.com Anti-fatigue pod - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Japanese company Kawasaki Engineering Co. have created the Dream Plus, a fatigue-treatment device which will be marketed to gyms and beauty salons, and like a hyperbaric chamber uses a high-pressure pod to raise oxygen levels in the blood. Don’t try this if you’re claustrophobic. . . or [...]

More truckers killed on the job than any other occupation. According to the U.S. Labor Department. A total of 5,915 fatal work injuries were recorded in 2000, down 2 percent from 1999. 70 percent of them were killed in a highway collision, 2 percent by homicide. Behind trucking, rates of fatal injury were highest in [...]

I’m sure this is a great program and even though this has nothing to do with trucking. Reading this article reminded me of the hundreds of articles about truck driving schools and the truck driver shortage. Including this comment -
Herald.com | 10/11/2004 | Minorities given new hope at flight school
…Jones said the goal is to [...]

University of Illinois at Chicago Grants License for Novel Drug Therapy for Sleep Apnea
CHICAGO, Sept. 27 (AScribe Newswire) — A promising drug therapy for the treatment of sleep apnea, a serious and common sleep-related breathing disorder has been licensed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, where it was first conceptualized, to an intellectual property [...]

Groups say U.S.-Mexican safety discrepancies should delay border
WASHINGTON — There are “significant differences” between Mexican and U.S. highway safety laws that need to be addressed before the border opens, according to a Public Citizen press release issued Aug. 13.
Six areas mentioned in the release include: Commercial Driver’s License requirements; alcohol and drug testing systems; hazmat [...]