* DC - The available crash reporting databases often provide a paucity of information on sleep deficiency, fatigued driving, etc.
-- A new report prepared for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration by a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, argues that “the available crash reporting databases often provide a paucity of information on sleep deficiency in CMV drivers, their adherence to HOS rules, and their crash frequency as a result of fatigued driving. Therefore, research on the linkage among hours of service, fatigue, and accident frequency is hampered by imperfect knowledge of the three most central variables” ... That being said, the National Academies contends that any newly proposed changes to Hours of Service rules and those for the medical certification of CMV drivers as well as to the North American Fatigue Management Program (NAFMP) industry-wide educational effort “need to be based on research-supported understanding of the costs and benefits of such changes” ... That’s should make numerous improvements in data and research methods “to support a more comprehensive understanding of the relationships between operator fatigue and highway safety and between fatigue and long-term health” ...
(Photo: Alarm driver fatigue has been applied in the following areas: Logistics company; Aviation; 4S shop; insurance; mining industry, the oil company; army trucks; driver metro, public safety Government) -- Wdashington, DC, USA - TruckingInfo - 10 March 2016Labels: truckers' safety, trucking safety
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