Factors Associated with Fatigue Among Truck Drivers

Literature review

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.006How to use a DOI?

Keywords

fatigue, truck drivers, occupational health, road safety, risk factors

Abstract

Fatigue is a significant dominating risk factor for transport workers, especially for long-distance truck drivers. Fatigued driving can easily lead to decreasing the drivers’ judgment ability, slow reaction, and an increase of operational errors, and as well as increased probability of road traffic accidents. This study’s aim is to identify the current evidence of risk factors contributing to fatigue for truck drivers. A literature search was made in 2021 and included articles back to the last ten years. All the factors can be divided into three aspects: demographics, work-related and driver-related factors. The results showed that fatigue was closely related to travel-based payment, long shift, long-distance travel, and lack of sleep. However, conflicting results were found in terms of age and smoking. Therefore, more research is needed.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinyi Ren
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Factors Associated with Fatigue Among Truck Drivers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 26
EP  - 31
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.006
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.006
ID  - Ren2021
ER  -