TRUCK DRIVER ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA - ESTIMATION OF THE CURRENT POPULATION

A challenge facing designers of commercial trucks and other commercial vehicles has been a lack of current operator anthropometric data on w hich to base design decisions. Existing data suffer from a number of l imitations including those related to secular size changes, ethnic and gender composition shifts, and excessive standard errors (S.E.) of pe rcentiles estimates. These and other limitations point out the need fo r estimates of contemporary, professional driver anthropometry. This r eport (1) presents tabulations of comprehensive male and female driver population anthropometry estimates, and (2) outlines a method for app lying these anthropometric data to the design of trucks and other vehi cles.