Just wondering if alot of lorry drivers suffer from alzheimer’s■■?
Reason for asking is it is a job that needs alot of attention and i was wondering if lorry drivers were less likely to suffer from it.
Who were you again ? do you know where I dropped my trailer? 
What’s a trailer?
Alzheimer’s is more like to occur if the mind is in-active, so I would imagine if anything it would be more likely among Lorry Drivers.
There can’t be too many jobs that require less mental input than driving.
So then plenty of mental arithmetic, reading, crossword puzzles and such, being bi-lingual lowers the chances also.
My memory has always been ■■■■■■ but it’s definately getting worse, and I’m ‘only’ 35. Used to drive taxi’s before sat nav’s etc, and was brilliant at quizzes etc back then, now I can’t remember the name of the last place I delivered to or my fleet number 
There can’t be too many jobs that require less mental input than driving.
don’t quite understand your reasoning to that statement, my mind if active everytime i drive 
if you drive round the M25 everyday you can’t switch off, you have to be thinking for everyone else around you 
Alzheimer’s is more like to occur if the mind is in-active, so I would imagine if anything it would be more likely among Lorry Drivers
current medical opinion is that mental active people are MARGINALLY less likely to develop Alzheimers.
It’s far more related to the development of Plaques in the nervous system , coupled to a poor lifestyle and generics.
Anyway you can be prosecuted for doing the times crossword whilst driving 
del949:
Anyway you can be prosecuted for doing the times crossword whilst driving
Am I OK doing the teabreak Quickie in the Mirror.
Just read that back …doesnt sound right for some reason
toowise:
del949:
Anyway you can be prosecuted for doing the times crossword whilst drivingAm I OK doing the teabreak Quickie in the Mirror.
As long as you clean the mirror afterwards !
Baby wipes are really useful
Where am I?
What did i come in here for again
Ah.yes Tuesday tomorrow,now where did I go yesterday?
Am I here ■■
toowise:
Am I OK doing the teabreak Quickie in the Mirror.
Apparently Not There's more in ■■■■■■■ than Stobart's - BULLY'S TRUCKSTOP BAR (INTERACTIVE) - Trucknet UK
iDriver
No I don’t thinks it’s true, there’s plenty on here that remember what they earns 20/30 years ago compared to now.
Well I dont know if this helps to answer your original question but my dad was a driver for 35 years, about 5 years ago he noticed his concentration was going, he had always been an alert person and very specific to detail. He always looked after the family money, was maticulas in any DIY job he did. A couple of years ago I was on my way to the lakes for the weekend when I got a phone call from him panacking. My mum had asked him to simply move the freezer in the garage from one side to the other to make it easier to get the car in. Because the wire went behind an object that could not be moved he had to take the plug off, but when it came to putting the plug on he had totally forgotten how to do it, even with me telling him over the phone he couldnt manage it and he was panacking incase the stuff in the freezer started to defrost, in the end he had to get a neighbour to come over and do it for him. Now this was a job in the past he could have done blindfolded. Up shot is after a couple of years of various tests two years ago he was diagnosed with alzheimers. He was only 62 when the problems started and has been retired on health grounds now for the past 4 1/2 years. He voluntarily gave up his HGV licence 4 years ago and 12 months ago gave up his car licence on recomendation from his doctor. The last ten years of his driving career was spent on nights for Christian Salveson out of Leigh, whether the driving nights had anything to do with it we are not sure, but he did say it was the glare from on coming headlights that he thought started to cause the confusion and concentration loss when he got to his collection point and then back to the depot, and he only did a short run every night from Leigh to Fort Dunlop.
Paul
wildfire:
There can’t be too many jobs that require less mental input than driving.
don’t quite understand your reasoning to that statement, my mind if active everytime i drive
if you drive round the M25 everyday you can’t switch off, you have to be thinking for everyone else around you
Friday afternoon on the M25, I come off it exhausted