The Trucking Network is a Canadian “English and Punjabi” bilingual publication, founded in 2012. Dedicated to the hard working professional drivers and their families across North America.
Norman Winegar
Take a moment, if you will, to think back to the last time you had to cope with stress in the workplace. It’s highly likely that you felt anxious or maybe even afraid at the time. Equally likely though,...
We all know that truck driving can be a demanding, grueling, and often thankless job. A survey conducted by CareerCast rated the trucking profession as one of the highest stressful jobs in America. These stressors affect their mental health...
New Channels for Supporting Your Employees’ Wellbeing
Mental health conditions can have profound personal, occupational, and social consequences for the one in five North Americans who experience them every year. For employers, these consequences have measurable economic impacts due to...
Professional truck driving in North America can be a challenging and sometimes lonely profession and in these pandemic times, it can be even more daunting. Long hours in the confined area of their cab as a solo driver. It’s...
I am always intrigued and a little frustrated when I observe how often employers overlook accessible, and no or low-cost ways to boost employee morale and engagement. Especially when such actions can easily connect to vital and universal human...
If you work in the field of Human Resources, or if you are a manager or supervisor of professional drivers or others, you are probably like me. You are always looking to learn from the wisdom and experience of...
Back in the pre-Pandemic days- remember those?- I was at a transportation conference having lunch with a Human Resource director who worked at mid-western US trucking company. I was enjoying learning about the driver health and recruiting and retention...
In the mental health field, we too often focus on how demands in our personal or family life can have negative effects on job performance. Especially for high demand, high stress, long hours jobs such as managerial and leadership...
I recently had a conversation with Espyr’s team of health and fitness coaches where they reminded me that water and food are a sort of medicine. They said that’s been known in the health coaching field for decades. They...
When it comes to employee benefits your thoughts and actions probably turn to the costs of providing healthcare benefits to your transportation industry workforce. This is a big-ticket item, and you keep your focus on big ticket items. You...