Here it is in English, it looks really good:The drivers of heavy vehicles which fall asleep at the wheel are responsible for 30% to 40% of the accidents fatal implying a truck, and of at least half of the exits of road recorded each year by this type of vehicles on the North-American roads. Cut Imprimer text To send to also consult Lisez other articles on these subjects: Accident of transport (100%) Financial services and professionals (100%) Road accident (99%) Accidents (General) (99%) Insurances (83%) NTSB (78%) Automobile insurance company of Quebec (74%) Effective Control Transport (65%) Group Robert (64%) To consult too According to studies' of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent organization which manages the safety of transport in the United States, the tiredness of the drivers, which works regularly up to 60 hours per week, weighs even heavier on the road assessment of the trucking industry than the accidents ascribable to alcohol and drugs. Even if there is not any similar study to measure the extent of the phenomenon in the north of the American border, the automobile Insurance company of Quebec (SAAQ) estimates that the data of the NTSB are "realistic", and that they could also represent the current situation of the truck-drivers from here, according to its spokesman, Gino Desrosiers. By referring to the road assessment haulage in 2006, the inappropriate sleep of the truck drivers could be in question in several hundreds of road accidents, and to be directly responsible for a score of deaths which have occurred on the roads of Quebec, only last year. This is why, in collaboration with industry, the SAAQ will reveal tomorrow in the offices of the company Groupe Robert, one of the largest conveyors in Quebec, new a video aiming at sensitizing the employers and drivers with the reality of this phenomenon which is the subject of intensive research for the development of tools of prevention. The company Groupe Robert will invite also the participants in the demonstration of a "detector of the drowsiness" developped at the point by the firm montréalaise Effective Control Transport (ECT), which uses cameras with infra-reds for "reading" tangible signs of physical tiredness on the level of the face and eyes of the drivers. According to ECT, the system can determine up to two hours in advance of the physical signs of tiredness and prevent the driver - or the company for which it works - need for taking rest. The device has been presented at the NTSB, the SAAQ, like other organizations responsible for the road safety in jurisdictions close to Quebec, in more of being the subject of an experiment in real situation in many vehicles of the Robert Group, for two years. Its recognition by the authorities of transport, in Canada or the United States, could however take time, if one trusts the efforts made since already more than 15 years by the American NTSB, to oblige the cartage contractors to equip their vehicles with these detectors. In spite of the studies carried out in the Nineties on the tiredness of the truck-drivers - whose results are recognized by about all the road authorities in North America - the NTSB made cabbage once more at the beginning of 2007 front the American Senate to oblige the conveyors to be equipped with recorders of edge. One duration maximum To Canada, a new federal payment came into effect, January 1, 2007, to limit to 2 p.m. the maximum duration of the working day of a truck-driver. Over these 14 hours, the driver of a truck can lead during a 1 p.m. maximum, over one day complete. The driver must also go away during at least eight hours, between two quarters of work. Similar payments, presenting a little different periodicities, from one jurisdiction to another, were also adopted in the majority of the Canadian provinces. To Quebec, the new payment over the hours of control, which cuts off only one hour per day at the maximum duration from the working day of a professional driver, just comes to enter fully into force, 1 last November. According to the Association of the haulage of Quebec (ACQ), the truck drivers Québécois who do lots of mileage of Maritime regularly, Ontario or the United States work, on average, between 55 and 60 hours per week. The "local" truck-drivers accumulate some generally a little less, that is to say between 45 and 50 hours per week. In a study published in 2003, the SAAQ estimated at 95% the rate of conformity of the drivers to the payment over the hours of control, on the roads of Quebec. Heavy vehicles in Quebec (in 2006) Accidents implying at least a truck 6991 Mortals 62 Severely wounded persons 142 light Casualties 1091 material Damages only 5696 Drivers with licence for truck-trailer 199 460 Drivers with licence for truck carrying 92 432 registered Trucks and road tractors 118 228 Conformity the drivers as for the number of hours worked 95% 1
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