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Driver Body Size Considerations in Future U. S. Heavy Truck Interior Cab Design
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Accurate data on the body dimensions of truck drivers are needed and such data are not presently available. This paper provides basic source data and an anthropometrical overview of the usefulness and limitations of existing data bases; discusses the influence of population factors, including age, sex, and demographic variables; and reviews population sampling problems. Heavy truck drivers as a whole appear to represent a physically different population from that of either the U.S. general population or other professional groups. Future anthropometric surveys must provide information for improved accommodation for the increasing range of physical size of users, and for obtaining data more useful to engineers involved in heavy truck interior cab design.
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Snyder, R., "Driver Body Size Considerations in Future U. S. Heavy Truck Interior Cab Design," SAE Technical Paper 810218, 1981, https://doi.org/10.4271/810218.Also In
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