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The Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA) is proud to announce the details of the 2012 HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. The HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit is the trucking industry’s most important annual health and wellness event and the number one source of education and resources aimed at improving the health of our nation’s professional driver population. Each year the HTAA invites trucking industry leaders, including Safety Directors, Human Resources Directors, Recruitment & Retention Managers, other trucking fleet and organization executives, and all stakeholders with an interest in improved driver health to attend the Summit to network and receive information and resources to help drivers get healthy and live longer lives.

The 2012 HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit will be held April 24th – 26th at the world famous Omni Hotel at CNN Center, located at Centennial Olympic Park, in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2012 event will support the theme “Raising Awareness to TAKING ACTION,” and will feature an all-star cast of speakers providing presentations on Obesity & Weight Loss, Sleep Disorders, Hypertension
& Heart Health, Respiratory Health, and Diabetes to name a few. The HTAA will also be kicking off the official industry-wide promotion of the DRIVE4COPD – the HTAA has teamed with the COPD Foundation to spearhead this landmark health initiative designed to help people take action and determine if they may be suffering from or at risk for the third leading cause of death in the United States.

Trucking Industry leaders and stakeholders interested in attending the 2012 Healthy Trucking Summit can visit the HTAA website at http://www.HealthyTruck.org and then click on the 2012 HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit button for more information or contact Nikki Pinson at nikkip(at)healthytruck(dot)org or (800) 800-1198. Companies interested in exhibiting at 2012 HTAA Healthy Trucking Summit can download an Exhibitor Prospectus at http://www.HealthyTruckingSummit2012.com

About the Healthy Trucking Association of America (HTAA):
The Healthy Trucking Association of America is the health and wellness authority of the trucking industry. The HTAA was the first nationwide organization ever formed for the purpose of addressing the lack of good health among the nation’s professional driver population and no other organization or group has done more on a nationwide scale to help drivers get healthy and live longer lives. HTAA offers programs to raise awareness and help improve the health
of professional drivers and is the originator and ongoing host of the trucking industry’s first and single most important annual health and wellness conference, the HTAA Healthy Trucking
Summit. http://www.healthytruck.org

About DRIVE4COPD
DRIVE4COPD is the nation's single largest awareness campaign for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Launched in February 2010, this landmark public health initiative is working to help people recognize the signs and symptoms of COPD and take action to see if they may be at risk. http://www.drive4copd.com