{"id":10594,"date":"2018-01-23T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:35:26","slug":"van-drivers-ditch-pasties-for-salads-and-gym-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/10594","title":{"rendered":"Van drivers ditch pasties for salads and gym sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weightlifting<\/p>\n

White van man has long had the stereotyped reputation of being a gym-dodging pasty lover. But that’s all changing according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

Research shows that the average van driver will work out once a week, with more than 10% heading to the gym a staggering five times a week. And when your body’s a temple, then you don’t fill it with junk.<\/p>\n

One in seven of those questioned leaves home with a packed lunch each day, while one in 10 claims to eat\u00a0“a very healthy diet of fruit, vegetables and salad”<\/em> when they’re on the road. Four in 10 drivers have now swapped sugary and salty snacks for healthy nibbles as well.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, which commissioned the research, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research seems to show that nowadays, van drivers are leading a much healthier lifestyle than you might expect. Rather than grabbing whatever they can while out on the road, they are tucking into homemade lunches of salad and fruit \u2013 a far cry from the food you might expect them to be eating.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems van drivers are sick of being stereotyped as overweight and impatient drivers. Six in 10 say they are\u00a0“courteous drivers” <\/em>while half claim to be\u00a0“polite and understanding”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the whole idea of white van man is beginning to look outdated — of the 500 drivers questioned for this research, 43% were women!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research finds that van drivers are more likely to be found at the gym with a salad than outside the chip shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}