Fyda Freightliner, a truck dealership with offices in Ohio and Pennsylvania, recently earned a first-place finish in a national wellness competition.


Fyda participated in National Employee Wellness Month, an initiative that helps business leaders learn how companies have developed successful strategies around prevention and good health.

As part of the third annual National Employee Wellness Month Challenge in June, teams (consisting of over 40,000 U.S. employees) from more than 90 U.S. companies logged more than 7 billion steps - the equivalent of summiting Mount Everest 674,607 times - in their quest to top the 2011 challenge leaderboards.

For the third consecutive year, Fyda Freightliner, averaging nearly 292,000 daily steps, rose to the top and finished in first place in the "Wellness Warriors" division. In recognition of this first place finish, Fyda Freightliner will receive a $1,000 donation from Virgin HealthMiles to the charity of their choice.

During the challenge, participants and their companies went head-to-head for a little healthy competition to help demonstrate the important relationship between increased physical activity and good health. Participants tracked their daily steps with uploadable GoZone pedometers.

National Employee Wellness Month was created by Virgin HealthMiles with support from the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation. The initiative helps business leaders learn how companies have developed successful strategies around prevention and good health. It showcases how supportive social communities, such as the workplace, can help to improve employee health and productivity and lower healthcare costs, and how leveraging an individual's social connections helps create and sustain a workplace culture of health.

Three-time champion, Fyda Freightliner stepped their way to the top of the Wellness Warriors division by averaging more than 13,000 steps, or approximately 6.5 miles, per participant per day.