Cell phone use to be outlawed, if new law passes...

Outlaw cell phone use in a vehicle period, if your going to do anything at all...I mean what sense does it make to target buses and trucks?

I think it will be hard for OIDA or anyone to argue that drivers should be allowed to talk on a cell phone, especially while provinces and at least NY have banned it in any vehicle...but I do not know how they can say some vehicles can and others can't....

Jeepers, we will be lost if we can't talk throughout the day!

 

In the article they put Buses & Trucks in the same Sentence! This Is WRONG Bus drivers do not really need to use cell phones like Truckers do! There should be a differance!!!

 

Truckers are no different them the rest of the populace. We become JUST as if not MORE distracted when driving and talking. How many times have you passed a trucker weaving in and out of lanes and you swear this guy must be drunk then as you pass him he's gabbing away on the phone.

Driving an 80K bullet while talking on the phone is not a necessity. Sorry. I do not believe it should be outlawed (nor do I think helmets, seatbelts, and so forth should be required). I am a firm believer that the gov should not be telling us what to and not to do, but in this case, you put not only yourself but every other innocent person on the road at risk.

You are no more important then the sales guy, the ceo, the banker, or the mom with 5 kids with complex schedules. Pull over, then make your calls.

 

Yerp. Send it to congress please... I'll be doing the same. We can't expect to make our points on here and be heard.. It just doesn't happen. We're pissing in the wind like this. I don't like it, the Goobermint doesn't need any more control over us than they already have, next they will outlaw CB radios because they are "distracting" .. Not buying it. I've been driving safely on the phone for years, I might not do it in the bigger cities where my attention is more demanded, but out on an open stretch of highway with nothing better to do I don't see why it would be a problem. Your car according to the constitution is an extention of your home, even moreso to truckers because we do actually live in our trucks.. The day the government bardges into my home and tells me what i can and cannot do will be the day i leave this country.. and by the way things are looking, that days almost here.

 

The NY law allows use of hands-free devices like headsets and Bluetooth...

When I worked at Bradco, we had guys driving flatbeds come in all the time with the Bluetooth setups....While they can be annoying to others, I cxan see how they'd be a boon to a driver, if he has one, ands a phone with voice dial....

 

Province isn't that a Canadian term?

 

Got news for you. I sent a letter to my congressman about a bill in GA that would actually make handheld devices illegal in vehicles. It would actually make talking on the CB illegal even though it was targeting cell phone use and trying to make them use handsfree devices. Under the wording of the law, talking on radios would be banned for everyone except emergency personnel.

Not sure of the outcome of that bill.