Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
As part of Logistics Skills Week 2026 and European Supply Chain Day 2026, we are delighted to host a special session titled “Tensions on the Road: Navigating Competing Demands in Drivers’ Work and Transport Logistics" with Dr. Annika Mies, Trinity College Dublin.
Truck and bus drivers face complex work environments, external pressures, and fluctuating stress levels, which often result in tensions and ethical dilemmas that extend beyond their immediate work and organisational settings. Technical solutions, such as advanced driver assistance systems, are designed to support the work of professional truck and bus drivers but are also perceived with ambiguity. Based on interviews with professional truck and bus drivers and logistics managers, she will shed light on the system-wide complexity of paradoxical tensions in transport logistics and the drivers' work context. These tensions are experienced differently, depending on the individuals' social, technical, and environmental factors—including the organisational culture and work routines, personal values and institutional context. Our research highlights theoretical, ethical and sustainability implications of understanding and reshaping the features of this so-called socio-material context to address sustainability paradoxes and moral dilemmas and contribute to improved social sustainability in transport logistics.
Speaker:
Dr. Annika Mies, Assistant Professor in Operations and Sustainable Systems, Trinity College Dublin
https://www.tcd.ie/
https://www.tcd.ie/e3
As part of Logistics Skills Week 2026 and European Supply Chain Day 2026, we are delighted to host a special session titled “Tensions on the Road: Navigating Competing Demands in Drivers’ Work and Transport Logistics" with Dr. Annika Mies, Trinity College Dublin.
Truck and bus drivers face complex work environments, external pressures, and fluctuating stress levels, which often result in tensions and ethical dilemmas that extend beyond their immediate work and organisational settings. Technical solutions, such as advanced driver assistance systems, are designed to support the work of professional truck and bus drivers but are also perceived with ambiguity. Based on interviews with professional truck and bus drivers and logistics managers, she will shed light on the system-wide complexity of paradoxical tensions in transport logistics and the drivers' work context. These tensions are experienced differently, depending on the individuals' social, technical, and environmental factors—including the organisational culture and work routines, personal values and institutional context. Our research highlights theoretical, ethical and sustainability implications of understanding and reshaping the features of this so-called socio-material context to address sustainability paradoxes and moral dilemmas and contribute to improved social sustainability in transport logistics.
Speaker:
Dr. Annika Mies, Assistant Professor in Operations and Sustainable Systems, Trinity College Dublin
https://www.tcd.ie/
https://www.tcd.ie/e3
