Are professional drivers less sleepy than non-professional drivers?

Are professional drivers less sleepy than non-professional drivers?

Objective It is generally believed that professional drivers can manage quite severe fatigue before routine driving performance is affected. In addition, there are results indicating that professional drivers can adapt to prolonged night shifts and may be able to learn to drive without decreased performance under high levels of sleepiness. However, very little research has been conducted to com...

Health of Professional Drivers

INTRODUCTION Considerable progress has been made in recent years in improving health and safety at work. For many people work does not take place in a fixed location but involves a large number of tasks associated with the control of a vehicle and exposed to all the hazards of a heavily trafficked environment. For those who drive lorries and buses there has been a deterioration over the last 20...

Sleepy older drivers.

Locomotor diseases among male long-haul truck drivers and other professional drivers.

OBJECTIVE High risks for locomotor diseases have been reported for bus and truck drivers in general; however, little is known about the specific risks of long-haul truck drivers. METHODS Standardised hospitalisation ratios (SHR) for different locomotor diseases of bus drivers, long-haul truck drivers and other truck drivers were compared with each other and with the general Danish working pop...

Stroke morbidity in professional drivers in Denmark 1981-1990.

BACKGROUND Little has been published on the possible associations between professional driving and stroke although it is well documented from several countries that professional drivers have an increased risk of coronary heart disease. There are common aetiologic factors for coronary heart disease and stroke. The aim of the present study is to estimate the risk of stroke among professional driv...