Podcasts about road tested living

THURSDAY 6PM ET 347-826-9170 Trucker Health at GATS- Rig without Cigs-MATS2GATS-GutHealth Once against the Great American Trucking Show, #GATS, focuses on "the driver". A key element of the focus continues to be truck driver health.  Along with the well know Health Pavilion which offer free screenings and mammograms for drivers, comes an emphasis to aid drivers with many of their health issues and difficulties, including, smoking, weight, physical fitness, emotional wellbeing, and the all-around importance of Gut Health. Our first of 3 guests tonight is Julie Dillon, Communication and Wellness Manager at St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund /  This year Julie brings to drivers the "Rigs Without Cigs" program offered to drivers and their families to help them kick the nicotine habit. So many drivers need help from the habit and addiction and St Chris is offering all kinds of help to them! Pre-registration begins August 1st. - register online at  Rigs without Cigs Registration. Tom Kyrk of Road Tested Living is the Chairman of the MATS2GATS fitness challenge this year and will also be on stage at the Health Pavilion performing his popular cooking demos. Carolyn O'Byrne of LifeCoachService.net makes her 3rd appearance. Carolyn is truckings' Live Coach and is the author of “Gut Instinct”. Carolyn will be unveiling “Gut Instinct” on Audio CD at GATS 2017. She'll also be presenting at the Health Pavilion Julie, Tom and Carolyn continue to be a driving force at GATS when it comes to Truck Driver Health.

  Episode 017- If your only knowledge of what big rig truckers do is informed by Smokey and the Bandit and Convoy, you'll find that the stereotype of hard living, hell raisers is largely inaccurate. In Tom Kyrk's blog, Road Tested Living, he shares his life living as a trucker.  Those adventures include being part of the trucker's food culture, and, yes, there is a trucker's food culture. This includes not only eating at diners and truck stops.  It also means cooking in the close quarters of the back of one's rig.  In this episode you'll learn how that happens. You'll also get Tom's recommendations of excellent places around the country to grab some grub.  He also talks about a cookbook for truckers that he coauthored called The Rolling Kitchen Cookbook. Since they are working on the website, if that link doesn't work, try this link to get recipes. If you'd like to reach out directly to Tom Kyrk, you can email him at roadtestedliving@gmail.com or go to his Facebook page. Some of the locations that Tom mentioned: Uncle Pete's (Lebanon, Tennessee) Clinton Station Diner (Clinton, New Jersey) Iowa 80 Truckstop. (Walcott, Iowa) TA, Harrisburg (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)  Dixie's (McLean, Illinois) Mo Griddlers (Bronx, New York) (Closed) Frattelli's Pizza (Bronx, New York) Peto's (Louisiana) Tiger Truck Stop (Louisiana) Jubitz (Portland, Oregon) Red's Tavern (Massachusetts)  Resources for truckers:  Truckers Haven and Cooking on the Truck The Guys and Food newsletter gives you delicious recipes, helpful kitchen hacks, and other things that any food guy will find useful. Some of the things in the newsletter will be exclusive, which means it won't make it on the podcast or blog. Sign up for the newsletter, you'll be glad that you did! (Don't worry, your contact information will never be sold or made available to any other person or organization.) Remember to subscribe to the Guys and Food podcast in Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, GooglePlay, and Tunein Radio.  In social media you can find us on Facebook and Twitter! Please feel free to reach out with your questions or comments.  You can do that by clicking on the Contact button, email me at gabe@ guysandfood.com, or call the listener line at 716-427-GUYS (4897).

Tom “Captain” Kyrk of Road Tested Living join us as he keeps us all up to date with this years Trucking Shows Health Fitness Challenges. We’ll get to hear this year's version of the MATS (Louisville, KY) to GATS ( TX (GATS) Fitness Challenge and we'll  be discussing the history of the group, what to expect, how to Register and the changes for this year's challenge.  Registration starts March 20th at MATS.  FaceBook Page MATS2GATS Fitness Challenge This year's format will be a group fitness challenge with a goal of losing 2,000 combined pounds! The great folks from Tough Tested ( TT)are helping to sponsor this year's contest as well as providing prizes and t-shirts for those involved. Carolyn O'Byrne of LIfeCoachService.net, John Reed Teddy the trainer, among others will be participating and giving advice and suggestions to those who want it.  Get motivated to make some changes in your life and start on the path to losing some weight and building some new friendships. We look forward to hearing you on the radio and seeing you in the contest Mid-America Trucking show is March 23rd 24th & 25th. Stop by the Tough Tested booth to meet "Captain Kyrk", he will be there on the 23rd & 24th. In and out of the TT both will be Wendy Parker, music artist and truck driver Bill Weaver and Carolyn O'byrne.  

Thursday Oct 29th 6PM ET Sick or Hurt over the road -What do you do? Professional Drivers face many obstacles, one of them being ill or injured while traveling far from home and even hundreds of miles from a care facility. What do they do? FMCSA Introduces Driver Wellness Programs Last month  the FMCSA announced a joint meeting of its Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) and Medical Review Board (MRB) Together, the MCSAC and MRB worked to identify concepts the Agency and stakeholders should consider in relation to the issue of health and wellness of drivers of commercial motor vehicles and the establishment of a driver wellness initiative, a non-regulatory public-private partnership of stakeholders to improve drivers' health The FMCSA allowed public comments as well as written comments via the portal. Truth About Trucking/AskTheTrucker sent in their concerns regarding the agency’s involvement with Driver Wellness, stating they must understand the challenges that drivers face in order to accurately address and give suggestion to driver wellness. One of the 6 major concerns mentioned in their submitted comment was “ What happened If a driver becomes ill while over the road” Tonight Donna Smith of Truck Driver Health and her co-host Tom Kyrk of Road Tested Living will discuss this challenge and the available options drivers have. We want to know!  What you do if you become sick or injured  while driving OTR. To ask a question or make a comment call in!!  347-826-9170 then press “1” on your keypad.

Saturday 10-3-15 6pm ET- Join us with our guest and co-host, Tom Kyrk of Road Tested Living as we discuss the hottest topics on AskTheTrucker “Live’ Truck Driver Health Open Forum. Professional drivers are more aware of the dangers of their compromised food supply, the increase in illnesses such as diagnosed diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and increased autoimmune disease.  Because of awareness, truckers are now more concerned and actively involved by taking  proactive measures to improve their health.  You know who else has announced they are  going to become proactively involved with driver health?  The FMCSA.  On September 21st and 22nd FMCSA's Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Council ( MCSAC) and the Medical Review Board (MRB) opened up discussion regarding the Health and Wellness of the professional Driver.   Tonight we will discuss this newly announced involved by the FMCSA and determine if becoming involved with truck driver health and wellness is for the earnest regard of the professional driver? Or.... is it to become just one more way the government will become even more involved with driver lives. We’ll also be discussing , unsafe cookware to avoid in your truck, what kind of diet programs to stay away from,  and the new craze on “salts” is there any really any differences? Be a part of the show tonight. Call in number is 347-826-9170

Join us Saturday 8/8/15 6PM ET as we unveil some of the best highlights going on at the Great American Trucking Show going on in Dallas Texas Aug 27-29 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. This years Truck Show displays much of its focus where it should be, around the professional driver! Here are few of our scheduled guests who will be calling in to share their highlights with us; Rick Ash, chairman of the Trucking Solutions Group (TSG), who leads the charge over at the Landstar Fit for the Road Health Pavilion. Listen to the details of the FREE Health Screening offered to drivers.  Read more   Also scheduled from TSG is Linda Caffee, owner operator with Landstar, and Les Willis, Owner of God Speed Expeditors. Tom Kyrk, founder of Road Tested Living will also share his extensive involvement. We are thrilled to also have on the show this year, Julie Dillon, of The Saint Christopher Fund who will discuss the “Driven to be Healthy Challenge” This is a 6-month challenge with 2 categories for both monthly and overall winners. The challenge runs August 27 – February 27 and it will all begin at #GATS. If you’re directly involved with GATS this year and would like to share your participation details with us, we invite you to join in on the conversation. 347-826-9170

 "Truck Driver Health- The "best" health program for you is.... " Thursday 6PM ET 347-826-917 As move forward with Driver Health discussions we realize more and more that there is no "one size fits all health program" . If you believe there is, you're setting yourself up for failure. We can take in all the information we want, but the bottom line is we need to apply knowledge to our lives, and what works for John, may not work for Mary, and yet John and Mary are BOTH improving their health. How could that be? Although than most people concerned about health will agree to avoid: processed foods, trans fats, GMO's, sugar, soda ,artificial ingredients and chemicals, pesticides, herbicides..... AND to increase organic food, water consumption, exercise,....  There still needs to be that all important consideration of the Person making the change. So what diet is best?  Here's a few choices : Paleo Diet, Vegan Diet, Vegetarian Diet, Raw Diet, Zone Diet, Atkins Diet... and the list goes on. Join us tonight as Donna Smith of Trucking Social Media and Tom Kyrk of Road Tested Living discuss the absolute BEST health program for YOU... Call us and share how you either have achieved, or are in the process of achieving your goal towards PERSONALIZED optimal health. Haven't Decided which health program is best for you?  We hope by the time the show is over tonight......  YOU"LL KNOW. CALL IN 347-826-9170 and share your thoughts, knowledge, and testimony with us!  

For the month of JUNE, Truth About Trucking "Live" Radio will be dedicated to Truck Driver Health concerns including obstacles and challenges that drivers face on a daily basis. For our first part of our series, we will address the serious state of truck driver health, including the illnesses drivers face, the choices they have made in the past and the viable decisions they are now making: Real life solutions for a better quality of life. Our speical guests are three professional truck drivers who will share their testimonials and explain how they have changed their lives and also how they are mentoring and encouraging other drivers to change theirs as well. Their continual research for better health has created a wealth of knowledge among them which they will share as we kick off our first part of our Truck Driver Health series. Donna will also share some of her insight she has learned and applied on living a healthier lifestyle, once finally diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. Our special driver guests include: Mike Adams of Truckin Fitness, Tom Kyrk of Trucking Solutions Group and Road Tested Living and Rich Chelson of Essante Organics. Join us as we address the causes of many driver illnesses, including: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, arthritis, joint pain, digestive and many others for this SPECIAL Truck Driver Health Series.