Reducing absence behaviour among truck drivers

This research is conducted in corporation with Bricklog B.V. (Bricklog). Bricklog wants to help his customers with reducing the absence behaviour among truck drivers. The management question which forms the basis of this research is:How to reduce absence behaviour among truck drivers in the Dutch logistics industry? Because of the fact that not much is known about antecedents for absence behaviour among truck drivers in the Netherlands, this is investigated in this research. The knowledge question of this study is: What are the antecedents of absence behaviour among truck drivers in the Dutch logistics industry? The method for getting an answer on the knowledge question exists of four parts, namely a literature review, an analysis of dataset based on a conversation between the HR manager and truck drivers, interviews and an analysis of a trip dataset.