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DRIVERS' HEALTH * USA - Depression and the Long Haul Trucker
A long-haul flights truck driver is not a stranger to sleep deprivation
USA -Depression Off.blogspot -October 24, 2007: -- Even local drivers deal with the problem of small rest, many are working 70 hours a week... Sleep deprivation is the main cause for heavy truck accidents, to as high as 40% of all crashes... The constant attitude of many motor carriers of the "you've got to the freight there," is a tremendous burden for the long haul truck drivers... Although Federal regulations require a driver, with 10 hour break after 14 hours, 10 hours often work out to be only 5-6 hours of sleep per actual day... Several years, I decided to keep a log of actual sleep time I received every day. Over a period of six weeks, it was apparent that I actually only "sleeping" an average of 4 hours per day. Twenty eight hours of sleep in a whole week... And to the problem, a large long-haul flights Trucking is at night...
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