A recent survey indicates that people who work in the transportation industry, including truckers, train workers and pilots, report being sleepy on the job. And their sleepiness has directly contributed to "serious errors" or "near misses," as Ben Wolfgang reports for...
As Oliver B. Patton reports for Heavy Duty Trucking, sleep apnea can lead to drowsy driving, which is one common cause of truck accidents, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) says that truck drivers with a body mass index of 35 or higher should...
If you have any knowledge of the trucking industry, you know that driving logs, which are meant to be used as tools for drivers to keep track of hours logged behind the wheel, and for law enforcement to monitor these hours, are known as "comic books" in the industry....
