When does stress end? Evidence of a prolonged stress reaction in shiftworking truck drivers

MA Ulhôa, EC Marqueze, T Kantermann… - Chronobiology …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
… , sleep, and health parameters among truck drivers working … A total of 42 male truck drivers
(39.8 ± 6.2 yrs) completed … , tiredness after work, years working as a driver, truck vibration, …

Associations between high caffeine consumption, driving safety indicators, sleep and health behaviours in truck drivers

AJ Filtness, JS Hickman, JE Mabry, L Glenn, H Mao… - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
Truck drivers are vulnerable to driver sleepiness due to pressures of shift work and prolonged
driving hours; this is a safety concern as sleepiness … countermeasure to driver sleepiness. …

[PDF][PDF] The Effects of Fatigue on Truck Drivers in Cargo Transportation: A Literature Review

RD Soliani, LB Da Silva, ADS Barbosa - Interciencia, 2023 - researchgate.net
… in a driver's abilities due to factors such as lack of sleep, … the potential impact on driver’s
care, insufficient sleep is a risk … to negatively impact the health of truck drivers, but also put the …

World at work: truck drivers

AJ Van der Beek - Occupational and environmental medicine, 2012 - oem.bmj.com
… Chronic sleeping problems are not uncommon in truck drivers due to irregular and long working
… point-prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea was found to be around 15% among truck

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and sleepiness in truck drivers

AP Mansur, JY Takada, SD Avakian… - European Heart …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Sleepiness is one of the main factors associated with crash accidents in truck drivers.
Methods: We analyzed the major risk factors for CVD and sleep disorders in 2228 truck drivers in …

Hours-of-service compliance and safety outcomes among long-haul truck drivers

MK Lemke, A Hege, Y Apostolopoulos… - … research part F: traffic …, 2021 - Elsevier
… First, they were asked to report their frequency of falling asleep while working, driving their
truck while sleepy, having sleepiness impact their job performance, and having sleepiness

Effect on truck drivers' alertness of a 30-min. exposure to bright light: a field study

U Landström, T Äkerstedt, M Byström… - … and motor skills, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
driving. The present study was designed to test whether a short (30-min.) exposure to
bright light would affect the subjective sleepiness of the truck drivers during night driving. Two …

In-vehicle prediction of truck driver sleepiness: lane position variables

K Mattsson - 2007 - diva-portal.org
… Terms and definitions to define sleepiness, factors that could enhance the driver sleepiness
and the measure used in this report to estimate sleepiness are presented in the first …

Circadian alertness simulator for fatigue risk assessment in transportation: application to reduce frequency and severity of truck accidents

M Moore-Ede, A Heitmann… - Aviation, space, and …, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
… ing industry, we stipulated it must: 1) distinguish between duty/rest schedules which are
known to induce differing levels of sleepiness in truck drivers; 2) define the statistical distribution …

Shorter sleep duration is associated with potential risks for overwork-related death among Japanese truck drivers: use of the Karoshi prodromes from worker's …

T Kubo, S Matsumoto, T Sasaki, H Ikeda… - International Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
… We distributed a questionnaire regarding work, sleep, and excessive fatigue symptoms to
5410 truck drivers, as the riskiest occupation for overwork-related CCVDs, and collected 1992 …