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Jun 7, 2016

TRUCKERS' FATIGUE * Australia - New Research

* ACT - Heavy vehicle driver fatigue data final report released

--- The National Transport Commission (NTC) today released the Heavy Vehicle Driver Fatigue Data Final Report which was endorsed by the Transport and Infrastructure Senior Officials Committee (TISOC) earlier this month... Chief Executive of the National Transport Commission Paul Retter said the final report incorporated stakeholder feedback on the discussion paper released in August last year. "The regulation of driver fatigue is a complex policy issue and more detailed research needs to be done on its causes and impacts." ... He said the fatigue data framework would help to ensure data about the frequency and impact of driver fatigue was collected in a consistent and comparable way across the nation's states and territories... Research activities will be conducted by the Alertness Safety and Productivity Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) who will conduct comparative research in both laboratory and field environments... Mr Retter said the fatigue data framework would also obtain more data about the use of nose-to-tail shifts, where a heavy vehicle driver works two long work periods within a 24 hour period with a major rest break in between. This work would consider factors such as insufficient sleep, long work shifts, the impact of circadian rhythms and the frequency of nose-to-tail schedules... 
(Photo: Lack of sleep? Young drivers care less)  --  Canberra, ACT, Australia - Big Rigs - 5th Jun 2016

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