OBJECTIVE To test whether the occupational conditions of professional truck drivers are associated with amphetamine use after demographic characteristics and ones regarding mental health and drug use are controlled for.METHODS Cross-sectional study, with a non-probabilistic sample of 684 male truck drivers, which was collected in three highways in Sao Paulo between years 2012 and 2013. Demograp...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of variables such as personality traits, driving behavior and mental illness on road traffic accidents among the drivers with accidents and those without road crash. methods: in this cohort study, 800 bus and truck drivers were recruited. participants were selected among drivers who referred to imam sajjad hospital (tehran, iran) duri...

Truck accidents involving rollover have extremely high fatality rates. About half of all truck drivers killed in accidents last year were involved in a rollover. Freightliner’s Rollover Stability Advisor alerts drivers to potential rollover situations, training them to avoid excessive rollover risk. In this paper, we describe work that extends the Rollover Stability Advisor to predict rollover ...

The purpose of this study is to identify those constructs that lead to driver turnover. The theory of reasoned action (TRA), originating in the social psychology literature is the theoretical approach in this study. Interviews with drivers were conducted using the intercept method to develop a survey instrument. The survey was then administered to drivers at large truck stops. This study makes ...

In this paper gives ever-increasing number of traffic accidents that are due to a diminished driver’s vigilance level has become a problem of serious concern to society. Drivers with a diminished vigilance level suffer from a marked decline in their perception, recognition, and vehicle-control abilities and, therefore, pose a serious danger to their own life and the lives of other people. Stati...

The aim of this article was to describe the attention functioning of twenty-two truck drivers and its relationship with amphetamine use. Those drivers who reported using amphetamines in the twelve months previous to the interview had the best performance in a test evaluating sustained attention functioning. Although amphetamine use may initially seem advantageous to the drivers, it may actually...