The UCF driving simulator was designed to be reconfigurable so that either a commercial truck cab or entire passenger vehicle (Saturn with engine and transmission removed) can be mounted on a motion platform. Several vehicle dynamics models are available for various truck/trailer combinations as well as different passenger vehicles. A study was performed to assess whether there are significant ...

Truck platooning is, by now, one of the major topics in transport science and freight transport. The benefits arising from system explain growing interest involved stakeholders many field-tests planned next years. This run towards truck saw an abrupt acceleration but there are risks that should be accounted for. Even though fundamental for implementation a new system, they will hardly cover all...

OBJECTIVE The North Dakota Legislature recently passed a law exempting the state's agricultural truck fleet from a federal safety program requirement for rear-guard equipment on large trucks. This equipment has been shown to reduce crash severity when a passenger vehicle collides with the rear of the truck. This study uses truck fleet, truck crash, and injury severity data to estimate the publi...

BACKGROUND Drivers of heavy and tractor-trailer trucks accounted for 56% of all production and nonsupervisory employees in the truck transportation industry in 2011. There are limited data for illness and injury in long-haul truck drivers, which prompted a targeted national survey. METHODS Interviewers collected data during 2010 from 1,670 long-haul truck drivers at 32 truck stops across the ...

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the workability of fresh portland cement concrete while it is still in the mixing truck by determining fundamental rheological parameters (plastic viscosity and yield stress). Nine concrete mixtures with different values of yield stress and plastic viscosity were tested in a concrete truck. The measurements made with the truck were based on the ty...