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Dec 11, 2015

TRUCKER STORY * USA: Driving with Multiple Sclerosis, it's possible

* Kansas - Multiple Sclerosis doesn't slow down truck driver

-- When Bill Neuville applied for a job driving a semi for Great Plains Trucking, he already had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in January 2007. The trucking company, a division of Great Plains Manufacturing, decided to hire him anyway, despite an uncertain prognosis... That was in January 2008. Nearly eight years later, Neuville is still driving a commercial truck, hauling loads of farm planting, tilling, seeding and spraying equipment to customers throughout the U.S.A. ...  Neuville often is on the road for as many as two weeks at a time, driving an average of 10 to 11 hours a day. This, despite some numbness on three fingers on his right hand and a heaviness in his left leg that causes him to walk with a pronounced limp... Neuville tells people that as long as he takes of himself and maintains a positive attitude, there is little he cannot do... “If I stop, the MS wins. And I’m not going to let it” ... 
(Photo: Bill Neuville a Great Plains Trucking's truck driver, he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis) -- Salina, KAN, USA - Salina Journal, by GARY DEMUTH - Dec 8, 2015

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