{"id":3766,"date":"2024-10-18T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T16:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/truckers-need-healthier-food-clean-truckstop-washrooms-researcher\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:40:23","slug":"truckers-need-healthier-food-clean-truckstop-washrooms-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/truckers-need-healthier-food-clean-truckstop-washrooms-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Truckers Need Healthier Food, Clean Truckstop Washrooms: Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

New\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0backs truck drivers\u2019 claims that Canada\u2019s highway network lacks clean washrooms with running water, healthy food options and safe, paved and well-lit parking spaces.<\/p>\n

As reported by Trucknews.com\u2019s Leo Barros, University of Saskatchewan researcher, Dr. Alexander Crizzle, team surveyed hundreds of truckers and visited several truck stops to complete the work and is asking stakeholders to come together and find solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know what needs to be done, but as a voice, we don\u2019t collectively come together to push. When I make these phone calls and have these conversations, it\u2019s just me,\u201d he told TN.com.<\/p>\n

Crizzle knows that truckers feel unappreciated despite being a vital part of the transportation industry. They work long days and have trouble finding parking for their big rigs. Lack of access to healthy food takes a toll on their health.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 300,000-plus truckers in Canada, they\u2019re driving our economy. And it\u2019s almost like we don\u2019t care about them,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can tell a driver to change their diet or get proper rest. But they don\u2019t have those options.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crizzle also highlighted the lack food choices and high price points at truck stops. \u201cIf the price of a small can of pop is almost the price of a large bottle, what are you going to buy? The large bottle, of course. Over the years, that is not going to do great things for your gut or health.\u201d<\/p>\n

An orange might be priced at $2, he noted, but there may be a $1 deal on two chocolate bars. The orange is not going to keep a trucker full for very long and costs twice as much.<\/p>\n

Truckers would like more fresh food like salads available, but truck stops prefer to stock processed food due to longer shelf life.<\/p>\n

Crizzle has reached out to companies that run truck stops in Canada. He said trying to communicate and get responses from big corporations is not the easiest of tasks.<\/p>\n

Full\u00a0story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New\u00a0research\u00a0backs truck drivers\u2019 claims that Canada\u2019s highway network lacks clean washrooms with running water, healthy food options and safe, paved and well-lit parking spaces. As reported by Trucknews.com\u2019s Leo Barros,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,252,28],"tags":[59,810,24,2357,1563],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-conditions","category-infrastructure","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","tag-highways","tag-rest-stops","tag-supply-chain","tag-truck-news","tag-washrooms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}