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UPS Honors 92 Truck Drivers from California for Safe Driving

UPS has inducted 92 truck drivers from California into the Circle of Honor, an elite group of drivers who have completed 25 years or more of driving without an accident. With the induction of 92 drivers this year, California now has 403 Circle of Honor UPS drivers who have a combined 11,352 years of driving without an accident to their credit. The safest UPS driver in California is Yucaipa-resident Peter Pavilion. Mr. Pavilion has completed 39 years of driving UPS trucks without a single crash.

This year, there have been a total of 928 new members inducted into the Circle of Honor, the single largest number of new inductees in a single year in UPS history. Nationally, the safest UPS driver is Ron Sowder of Kentucky who has completed 48 years of driving for UPS without being in a single accident. In second place is Thomas Camp of Michigan, who has completed 47 years without a single accident. Fifteen other UPS drivers have completed 40 years without a single accident.

According to UPS, it has a total of 102,000 drivers who log more than 3.3 billion miles every year. The company says it has high safety records with less than one truck accident occurring for every million miles driven. California has a total of 9,617 UPS drivers.  California Circle of Honor inductees this year include drivers from Riverside, Sunnyvale, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Brentwood, San Bernardino, Fresno, Oakland, San Diego, Ontario, San Fernando, Palo Alto, Stockton, Sacramento, San Gabriel, Pasadena, Santa Maria and San Jose.

As California truck accident lawyers know, a trucker faces serious challenges as he goes about his duties every day. The job involves driving for long irregular hours, and spending time away from family. Truckers have to undertake hectic loading and unloading activities, and may get insufficient rest. As a result, a trucker may feel tired as he is driving, placing himself at serious risk of an accident.  Drivers are also at a high risk from an unhealthy lifestyle that includes fattening foods and irregular meal times. A truck stop may not always available when a trucker needs to rest. This can contribute to lifestyle diseases, like diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease etc.

Truckers are also at a high risk for a condition called sleep apnea.  In this condition, there may be several interruptions in breathing during sleep. As a result of these interruptions, the person may wake up several times during sleep, and consequently, fee tired, fatigued and drowsy the next day. A trucker who suffers from sleep apnea is much more likely to doze off at the wheel, placing himself at serious risk of an accident and endangering his own life and the safety of other motorists.

For these drivers to be able to meet all these trucking challenges and avoid accidents is a feat that must be commended. These drivers deserve public support and encouragement, and can serve as an example worth emulating for other drivers.

The Reeves Law Group is a law firm with offices throughout California dedicated exclusively to the representation of personal injury victims, including victims of truck accidents. Please visit our website at trlglaw.com. If you desire a free consultation on a personal injury matter, please call us at (800) 644-8000 or email us.

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One response to “UPS Honors 92 Truck Drivers from California for Safe Driving”

1. Sandra McCarthy writes:
   

   Hats off to these drivers and UPS for honoring them! Its important to acknowledge taking
   personal responsibility and a drivers career does pose many challenges.
   I would like to clarify that in this statement:

   This can contribute to lifestyle diseases, like diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease etc.

   it would be more accurate to note: that it contributes to lifestyle diseases, like TYPE 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac disease, etc.

   There are significant differences in the type of diabetes in which you are referring and Type 2 is related to obesity and inactivity and does not utilize insulin properly.

   whereas TYPE 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease and the body destroys the cells that produce
   insulin and a person needs insulin to stay alive.

   I just wanted to bring this to your Groups attention since in the last decade the under 4 yrs old age
   group being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes has increased at alarming rates this really does a disservice to those all inflicted with Type 1 and adds insult to insulin.

   I Thank You for your consideration of this information for myself and for my daughter who was diagnosed
   at the tender as of 3 in 1999.
   Sandra McCarthy Massachusetts
   Diabetes advocate helping to make the world a more diabetes user-friendly place every waking moment and we have miles to go before we sleep.

   @ January 30th, 2010 at 08:30