Your voice. Your industry. Your say.
This research could change your life. Your input feeds directly into a national study on drivers’ work, pay and safety.
The road transport industry is undertaking a major confidential survey of drivers.
A group of international researchers have been asked to find out whether and how the road transport industry has changed, and what impact new laws will have.
The researchers, emeritus professors Michael Belzer from Wayne State University in the USA and David Peetz from Griffith University, Queensland, are doing this project with industry backing. Professor Belzer used to be a truck driver himself. He has been researching these issues for over four decades.
It is funded by TEACHO, the Transport Education Audit Compliance and Health Organisation, an industry body with a safety focus, and has support from state-based and national trucking organisations, as well as the Transport Workers Union.
A major focus of the study will be safety. It will look at the factors influencing fatigue, crashes, drowsiness, and many other aspects of safety, including the roles of schedules, pay rates, clients, the types of contracts people have, and other factors.
Of course, we protect your privacy. Your responses will be treated totally confidentially by the researchers. Findings will be reported in a way that does not identify individual participants. At the end of the survey, you may choose to provide a phone number or email address if you are willing to be contacted about future research.
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