have a sleeping berth behind the driver’s seat so the person can rest at travel centers during these federally mandated driver restorativesleep periods. Driver and public motor safety is the primary concern influencing HOS regulation. Understanding the factors that may contribute to commercial vehicle operator health and performance are important for guiding future regulations. Currently, occup...

Traffic crashes tend to be more serious when commercial trucks are involved. And an increasing number of vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for traffic safety improvement. To this end, study investigated the impacts ADAS respect forward collision warning (FCW), urban (UFCW), lane departure (LDW), headway monitoring and (HMW), speed limit indicator (SLI) on truck dr...

OBJECTIVE To validate the recently published consensus criteria for screening commercial drivers for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). METHODS A large, consecutive case series of commercial drivers was screened for OSA at a single occupational medicine clinic and those screening positive were referred for overnight polysomnography. RESULTS One hundred ninety (13%) of 1443 individuals having co...

The commercial motor vehicle driver medical examination aims to ensure that commercial drivers can safely perform all driving and nondriving work-related tasks. In conducting the examination and completing the related certification, the medical examiner must follow mandated medical standards and consider medical advisory criteria. Examiners should consider the substantial expert guidance provid...

A hardware object is a capsule of circuits loaded into reconfigurable devices. It is dynamically constructed while an application runs. Its driver is temporarily mounted on a real driver for a hardware module. The circuits are suitable to preprocessing and postpro-cessing of robot systems. A commercial C++ compiler becomes an integrated design environment only attaching hardware object componen...

This report describes experiences, subsequent action, and policy recommendations regarding sleep disorders assessment of veterans in relation to a commercial driver medical examiner referral. A series of 6 veterans were seen in our sleep clinic, presenting with an order from a commercial driver medical examiner (CDME) for polysomnography and/or Multiple Sleep Latency Testing (PSG/MSLT). We sear...

OBJECTIVE To assess relationships and trends over time in individual conditions and multiple conditions among a large sample of independent, nonoverlapping truck drivers using a repeated cross-sectional study design. METHODS Commercial driver medical examinations were conducted on 95,567 commercial drivers between January 1, 2005, and October 31, 2012. Specific medical conditions that have be...