These proceedings contain the discussions and papers presented at the international conference on the Working Conditions of Drivers in Road Transport, which was held at the French National Institute for Transport and Transport Security on the 3rd and 4th of June 1988. The papers are as follows: New Approaches to the Measurement of the Effects of Stress in Transport, MLI Pokorny and DHJ Blom; Sleepiness at Work: Measurement and Regulation, T Akerstedt and S Folkard; Personality Factors Related to the Control of Drowsiness, A Wedderburn; Professional Driving Safety - Fatigue, Stress and the Design of Countermeasures, N McDonald; The Long-Distance Truck Driver: Manager of Constraints, C Germain; Waiting Time and the Waiting Behaviour of Truck-Drivers, H Erke; Working Hours of European International Truck-Drivers, F van Ouwerkerk; Regulations in Seven EEC Nations Concerning Duration of Work among Long-Distance Lorry Drivers, P Morsink; Know-How in the Management of Working-Time and Safety, P. Hamelin; Truck-Drivers' Professional Career: Some Specific Types of Working Conditions Relative to the Logic of Employment and Social Origins, B Lefebvre; Medical Survey of Truck-Drivers: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Most Frequent Pathologies, M Chiron; Problem-Study of the Work of Heavy-Goods Drivers in Quebec: Work Accomplished and Future Prospects, F Ruest.
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