{"id":7599,"date":"2018-11-19T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drivercheck.net\/wp\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2021-11-09T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:37:04","slug":"5-steps-to-protecting-truck-drivers-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/5-steps-to-protecting-truck-drivers-mental-health","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps to Protecting Truck Drivers’ Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
Truck driving can be an isolating job, and a large number of drivers experience the effects of depression. Other issues contributing to the problem include long hours and uncomfortable working conditions. The fact that truck driving falls among the top eight professions likely to commit suicide underscores this issue. What often starts as burnout can lead to full-blown depression. Thankfully, there are several ways drivers can improve their mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n
Truck drivers can take the following steps to protect their mental health while on the road:<\/p>\n
Avoiding physical and mental burnout is an important part of maintaining good mental health for truck drivers. At DriverCheck, we strive to save lives with high-quality safety solutions. To learn more about how we can help your drivers and trucking business, contact us today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Truck driving can be an isolating job, and a large number of drivers experience the effects of depression. Other issues contributing to the problem include long hours and uncomfortable working conditions. The fact that truck driving falls among the top eight professions likely to commit suicide underscores this issue. What often starts as burnout can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,223],"tags":[230,233,231,232,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10.10.0.150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}