The impact of 7-hour and 11-hour rest breaks between shifts on heavy vehicle truck drivers' sleep, alertness and naturalistic driving performance

CONCLUSIONS: Extending the major rest between shifts substantially increases sleep duration and has a modest positive impact on driver alertness and performance. Future work should replicate the study in a larger sample size to improve generalisability and assess the impact of consecutive 7-hour major rest breaks.PMID:34192654 | DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2021.106224

Source: Accident; Analysis and Prevention. - June 30, 2021 Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Jennifer M Cori Luke A Downey Tracey L Sletten Caroline J Beatty Brook A Shiferaw Shamsi Shekari Soleimanloo Sophie Turner Aqsa Naqvi Maree Barnes Jonny Kuo Michael G Lenn é Clare Anderson Andrew J Tucker Alexander P Wolkow Anna Clark Shantha M W Rajarat Source Type: research