While fatigue and hours of service are frequently used in the same sentence, there’s often just a very tenuous connection between the two. Drivers and fleets work hard to comply with the rules, but ...

Maven Machines announced that it featured in the 10th International Conference on Managing Fatigue. Maven's Director of Research Zackary Knoll presented research from Maven's Smart Bluetooth headset ...

Truck drivers play a vital role in transporting goods across the country, but extended hours on the road often lead to fatigue. This hidden danger reduces reaction times, impairs judgment, and ...

While systems supposed to detect driver fatigue have been around for a while, Ford is working on new technology that would push this concept to a completely new level. A patent called “method for ...

Trimble is adding a driver fatigue monitoring and risk management assessment to its Safety Analytics dashboard that aggregates driver data across an entire fleet to highlight drivers in need of ...

WASHINGTON — The wages earned by truck drivers are too low, forcing them to work long hours, according to a report presented to trucking industry researchers at the annual meeting of the ...

When the topic of driver fatigue comes up, National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) Senior Crash Investigator Mike Fox has some tough stories to tell about drivers and the carriers they work for failing ...

Drowsy driving plays a significant role in traffic crashes, injuries, and deaths. On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that driver fatigue led to a deadly multivehicle ...

Is truck driver fatigue the result of detention and delays at shipper facilities? Is driver fatigue the outcome of bad motor carrier management practices? Perhaps fatigue belongs to truck drivers ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration should make numerous improvements in data and research methods “to support a more comprehensive understanding of the relationships between operator ...

This story appears in the March 14 print edition of iTECH, a supplement to Transport Topics. Advances in technology are giving trucking companies increasingly sophisticated ways to combat distracted ...

A Wal-Mart truck driver who hadn't slept in 28 hours failed to slow down despite posted warning signs and was responsible for a highway crash last year that severely injured comedian Tracy Morgan and ...