Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union must comply with regulation (EC) No 561/2006. According to the new regulation, transport companies must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulation and can be made liable for...

In the United States of America driving and working hours of truck drivers must comply with the hours of service regulations imposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Generating work plans complying with these regulations for a given sequence of locations to be visited is a non-trivial...

Since April 2007 working hours of truck drivers in the European Union are regulated by regulation (EC) No 561/2006. According to the new regulations, road transport undertakings must organise the work of drivers in a way that drivers are able to comply with the regulations and can be made liable...

Fuel is one main cost driver in the road haulage sector. An analysis of diesel price variations across different European countries showed that a significant potential for cutting fuel expenditure can be found in international long-haul freight transportation. Here, truck drivers are often on...

We estimate the labor supply curve for long-haul truck drivers in the United States, applying ordinary least squares regression to a survey of truck drivers in the United States. We start with the standard model of the labor supply curve and then develop two novel extensions of the standard...

In April 2007 new legal rules concerning the driving and working hours of truck drivers have become valid in all member countries of the European Union. In the study of Christoph Manuel Meyer the dispatchers’ problem of combined vehicle routing and break scheduling is modelled and solved using...

This paper presents and studies the Canadian Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (CAN-TDSP) which is the problem of determining whether a sequence of locations can be visited within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with Canadian Commercial...

The U.S. Truck Driver Scheduling Problem (US-TDSP) is the problem of visiting a sequence of n locations within given time windows in such a way that driving and working activities of truck drivers comply with U.S. hours of service regulations. In the case of single time windows it is known that...