A Study on Improvement of Sitting Posture Stability for Heavy Truck Drivers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyang Mi Kim
Keyword(s):  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Sitting Posture ◽  
Heavy Truck ◽  
Posture Stability

3314 Measurement of heavy truck drivers' stress during Eco-driving

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012.21 (0) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Kohei SAKUMA ◽  
Kimihiko NAKANO ◽  
Hirofumi YASUI ◽  
Shigeyuki YAMABE ◽  
Yoshihiro SUDA
Keyword(s):  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Heavy Truck

scholarly journals Naturalistic Study of Truck Following Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 2615 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Nodine ◽  
Andy Lam ◽  
Mikio Yanagisawa ◽  
Wassim Najm
Keyword(s):  
Response Times ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Manual Response ◽  
Baseline Case ◽  
Heavy Truck ◽  
Naturalistic Driving ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Automated Response

A baseline case was created for the following behavior of heavy-truck drivers with the use of naturalistic driving data to support the development of automated platooning. A truck platoon is a string of trucks following each other in the same lane at short distances. Grouping vehicles in platoons can increase capacity on roads, save significant fuel, reduce emissions, and potentially result in improved safety. However, these benefits can be realized only if the platoons operate in an automated, coordinated manner. Because little literature of truck following behavior exists to support the development of such truck platoons, this research focused on how closely trucks follow other vehicles on highways under various environmental conditions, how closely a truck follows a leading vehicle when other vehicles cut in between, and the safety impact of following at different headways. Findings indicate that trucks follow other vehicles at an average headway of about 2 s overall, and those headways are shorter when following a passenger car rather than a heavy truck, on state highways rather than on Interstates, in clear weather rather than in rain or snow, and during the day rather than during at night. Vehicles usually do not cut in when a truck is following another vehicle at less than 25-m (82-ft) or 1.0-s headway. For manual response times, the rear-end crash risk increases considerably at headways of less than 1.0 s; for automated response times, crash risk is almost negligible at headways as low as 0.5 s.

scholarly journals Analysis of heavy truck maintenance issues

Pomorstvo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-31
Author(s):  
Sebastjan Škerlič ◽  
Edgar Sokolovskij
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cost Optimization ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
Heavy Truck ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The objective of the study is to determine whether the scientific literature in the field of heavy truck maintenance parallels current development trends in maintenance. For this purpose, models related to fleet maintenance were analysed in terms of cost optimization, decision-making support and improving employees’ maintenance competencies. The analysis underlines the lack of research in the studied field and highlights the scientific gap in the development of methodological approaches to improving the competencies of truck drivers as important entities in the process of detection and elimination of technical issues. The analysis of heavy truck maintenance issues therefore serves as empirical support for the improvement of maintenance processes in the addressed industry as well as in logistics in general. The resulting research also synthesizes the scientific literature in the field of fleet maintenance, which represents an important support for future empirical studies.

scholarly journals Entry-level heavy truck drivers and highway safety: Is it finally time for federally mandated training?

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Harry L Sink
Keyword(s):  
Baby Boom ◽  
Highway Safety ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Federal Regulations ◽  
Mandated Training ◽  
Weak Support ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Baby Boom Generation ◽  
Commercial Drivers ◽  
Heavy Truck

This article examines the need for mandated instruction and a uniform curriculum for entry-level commercial drivers. The study also addresses the discontinuity resulting from the establishment of a uniform licensing standard without requiring preparatory training. The research involves a review of Federal regulations pertaining to obligatory operator instruction in the air, water and rail mode. The investigation concludes that weak support and lobbying efforts by certain trucking interests have thwarted the adoption of mandatory instruction and/or a uniform curriculum. The study also highlights a pressing need for policy revision given the imminent retirement of many “baby boom” generation drivers.

Clinical characteristics of sleep disorders, sleepiness and workplace accident risk factors in heavy truck drivers

2017 ◽  
Vol 381 ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
D. Shuren ◽  
T. Bolormaa ◽  
T. Amartogtokh ◽  
E. Bujinlkham ◽  
B. Munkhoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sleep Disorders ◽  
Clinical Characteristics ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Accident Risk ◽  
Heavy Truck ◽  
Workplace Accident Risk

scholarly journals Battling Blind Spots: Hours of Service Regulations and Contentious Mobilities in the BC-Based Long Haul Trucking Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amie McLean
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Mechanism ◽  
Foreign Worker ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Truck Drivers ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Heavy Truck ◽  
Potential Exploitation ◽  
Blind Spots

This article explores arenas of contention in which long haul truckers’ workplace mobilities are enmeshed. I critically analyze the grounded implications of Hours of Service (HoS) regulations, a primary regulatory mechanism for addressing the dangers posed by truck driver fatigue. I argue that HoS regulations enforce a neoliberal individualization of responsibility that fails to account for industry power dynamics or truckers’ lived experiences of labour mobility. These dynamics add to concerns about the potential exploitation of migrant truck drivers, including through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Inasmuch as they fail to address the classed, gendered and racialized dynamics of trucking mobilities, HoS regulations are implicated in perpetuating hierarchies of power in the industry. As such, they are inadequate and – in contextually specific ways – counterproductive to promoting employment equity or overall public safety. These issues are particularly evident in the contentious politics of blame concerning heavy truck-involved collisions.

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