Commercial Truck Related Collisions

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Commercial truck-related collisions remains to be the prominent cause of death on Ontario roads, with one in five road crashes involving large truck vehicles (Best, 2017). Behind a vast majority of the crashes, there is a fatigue driver who lost control of the steering due to insufficient sleep and inattentiveness. According to studies, sleep deprivation is the primary risk factor of accidents involving transport trucks (National Transportation Safety Board, 1995). If sleepless night becomes a routine for transport drivers, it can possibly lead to long-term sleep deprivation and the associated health risk. Health risk associated with sleep deprivation are heart attack, depression, anxiety, weight gain and death. Most common health risk experienced

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