A triadic view of truck driver satisfaction

Truck driver scheduling in Canada

This paper presents and studies the Canadian Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (CAN-TDSP) which is the problem of determining whether a sequence of locations can be visited within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with Canadian Commercial Vehicle Drivers Hours of Service Regulations. Canadian regulations comprise the provisions found in U...

Truck driver scheduling in Australia

In September 2008 new regulations for managing heavy vehicle driver fatigue entered into force in Australia. According to the new regulations there is a chain of responsibility ranging from drivers to dispatchers and shippers and thus, carriers must explicitly consider driving and working hour regulations when generating truck driver schedules. This paper presents and studies the Australian Tru...

Optimizing Truck Cab Layout for Driver Accommodation

One important source of variability in the performance and success of products designed for use by people is the people themselves. In many cases, the acceptability of the design is affected more by the variability in the human users than by the variability attributable to the hardware from which the product is constructed. Designing for human variability as an inherent part of the product opti...

Truck Driver Scheduling in the United States

The U.S. Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (US-TDSP) is the problem of visiting a sequence of λ locations within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with U.S. hours of service regulations. In the case of single time windows it is known that the US-TDSP can be solved in O(λ) time. In this paper we present a scheduling method for the US-TDSP ...

Truck Dispatching and Fixed Driver Rest Locations