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Australian long-distance lorry drivers. I read, tend to be a neurotic bunch and their Canadian buddies are liable to be bloated and unhealthy. A survey by Dawn Linklater, of the Department of Motor Transport. Sydney. New South Wales, says the typical Australian long-distance lorry driver is more likely than the average motorist to smoke heavily, to have more financial worries despite his relatively higher income, and to be openly aggressive.
He is prone to hallucinations while driving; drugs, including alcohol, combined with extreme fatigue, are thought to contribute. to mental unbalance, ROSPA reports.
In Canada the mobile bed-sit is blamed for drivers coronary disease, linked with excessive weight Many long-distance drivers apparently die in their cab beds.
The best the British lorry driver can boast is an irrational aversion to tachographs. And I suspect that even that condition could quickly be cured by cash without the benefit of a psychiatrist's couch.