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Tag: distracted driving
Overdrive Extra
Time to get tougher on the motoring public’s distraction
Is it time to treat distraction behind the wheel among the motoring public as tough as DUI? Clifford Peterson suggests trucking organizations would do well to team up with insurers to at the very least increase penalties for motorists’ distraction, to combat what’s clearly a safety problem.
August 15, 2019
Business
App for that: Smartphone-distraction-avoidance assist
Need a distraction-avoidance assistant? The new Nextraq MobileBlock device and app locks smartphone and tablet apps, except for navigation and emergency calling, while you’re driving.
August 7, 2019
Channel 19
Put down the phone
Rudy Yakym was stopped at a red light on his way back home after delivering a load of travel trailers, when a Volvo ran into his trailer. Hear his story today.
September 6, 2018
Overdrive Extra
A positive example for Joe Public, and the influence of professionalism
If truckers do not appreciate other truckers, how on earth can we expect Joe Public to appreciate what we do to make their lives easier? Read more on Overdrive.
July 13, 2018
Business
Not all those who wander have been abducted by aliens
“So there’s this guy, they call him ‘Cargo,’ and he started walking due North eleven months ago in Ushuaia, Argentina, toward Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Yep. I said walking. And he’s made it on foot through South and Central America, in less than a year.”… No joke, and he wasn’t abducted by aliens …
November 8, 2017
Channel 19
Look ma, no hands!
Unwelcome distraction on the road with owner-operator Scott Reed of Buckland, Ohio — knee-drive and text up ahead, look out!
April 17, 2017
Business
‘Driver mode’ proposed by NHTSA to lock certain cell phone features while driving
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released a set of proposed guidelines to help cut down on distracted driving, including device pairing and asking cell phone manufacturers to develop a “driver mode” that blocks many of a phone’s functions.
December 6, 2016
Business
Mandates for video recorders, collision avoidance systems among NTSB’s ‘Most Wanted’ in 2017-2018
Items on the list NTSB’s 2017-2018 most wanted list that could have the biggest impact on drivers include increased implementation of collision avoidance technologies, expanding use of event recorders, and ending alcohol and drug impairment.
November 15, 2016
Channel 19
Photos posted to Facebook net $1 million crash settlement
Ever posted a photo you took from the driver’s seat to Facebook? The plaintiff’s bar thanks you.
September 27, 2014
Channel 19
Report: Air horns for four-wheeler safety?
More and more, drivers are taking the issue of four-wheeler distraction (chiefly by cellphones) into their own hands….
September 11, 2014
Voices
POLL: Do you use your truck’s horn to call out distracted drivers?
This poll follows reports of a growing tendency among drivers calling out unsafe behavior among motorists and other truckers on-highway, particularly cell phone use behind the wheel.
September 10, 2014
Overdrive Extra
Seeing that you’re driving blind
The video shows that what is superficially doing two things at once – driving and talking on the phone – is really just switching between two activities.
December 17, 2013
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