Tag: handheld cellphone ban

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Cell-phone jamming technology in your cab?
Much has been made of the inability and/or difficulty of state enforcement of the Department of Transportation’s nationwide ban on handheld cellphone use behind the wheel. Last I’ve written about it you can find here and here. In the story at the former of those links, reader Martin GrosecIose put forward the notion that combating […]
July 13, 2012
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Modest proposal: Ban all motorized transport already!
Buddy Wenners’ December 2011 modest proposal for the Department of Transportation to dispense with all the rigmarole and “ban truck driving” — penned in response to news of the handheld cell ban and otherwise the blizzard of new regs coming down the pike — yesterday got some kudos from commenter Zach Bell. It’d be exciting, […]
June 21, 2012
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Truckers to DOT: ‘Smartphones are winning’
Smartphones are whipping the Department of Transportation in the battle for the attention of the motoring public, wrote Whitesboro, Texas-based Pennco Transportation driver Martin Groseclose on Overdrive’s Facebook page, in response to last week’s news of the DOT’s strategy for dealing with the epidemic of four-wheeler distracted driving. If you missed said news, check it […]
June 12, 2012
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Dodging bullets from on high
Look up, drivers. Just when you think you’re safe — rig in the lane, four-wheelers keeping a good distance off your back bumper, new regs falling from on high fully accounted for — occasionally, something like this happens. Click through the link to watch a video interview (which aired last week on a local Georgia […]
January 11, 2012
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Drivers’ safety conversation continues
If the handheld cell ban for drivers (which goes into effect Jan. 3) has done anything for the nation’s interstate haulers, it’s upped the ante on the conversation on this blog about the direction of safety in the industry. Driver and radio host Big Al Weekley is back today with a lament for the safety […]
December 20, 2011
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