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Traffic accidents are becoming one of the most important challenges threatening global public health. Yearly about 25000 persons die beacause of traffic accident in Iran. While trucks account for around 8.3% of the total number of vehicles in Iran’s roads, they were involved in 20.5% of all fatal crashes in the year 2014. This shows the importance of addressing the problem the truck drivers’ safety. This study aims to obtain an understanding of the relationship between the effective variables on safe heavy vehicles driving and develop a new structural equation model by this variables. For this purpose, data were collected using Driver Behavior Questionnaire, Attention-Related Driving...