Heavy, drowsy truckers pose risk on the road

Sleep scientists at Harvard University have renewed calls for mandatory sleep apnea testing of obese truck drivers due to the risk they pose on the road. They say research shows there´s a strong link between fat drivers and sleep apnea and that screening could help prevent truck crashes that kill more than 5,200 people and injure more than 100,000 each year in the U.S.

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