Deadly Tolls: Sick Truckers Causing Fatal Wrecks

Not new.

There's this from the article:

"The driver of a 15-passenger 'Tippy Toes' day-care bus traveling 63 mph on Interstate 240 in Memphis, Tenn., in April 2002 crashed into a bridge, killing the driver and four of the six children aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board said the driver, Wesley B. Hudson, 27, fell asleep, 'quite likely due to an undiagnosed sleep disorder.' Investigators said children sometimes had to wake up Hudson, whom the NTSB described as obese and a marijuana user."

One look at the obese Hudson likely would have diagnosed the "sleep disorder."

And these examples from before:

Obesity may drive some truckers to doze

Waking Up to the Problem of OSA: Consequences and Improved Recognition

And you can go here to protect yourself.