Deadly Tik Tok

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  2. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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    Yup,he’s going to prison.
     
  3. bryan21384

    bryan21384 Road Train Member

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    Oooooooo weeeee!!!! That driver fouled up big time. TikTok while driving? That's gonna be an easy conviction.
     
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  4. DARKNIGHTRUCKER

    DARKNIGHTRUCKER Light Load Member

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    I remember watching a company mandated safety video of this driver checking out houses on zillow and he ended up barreling straight through a red light and killing a guy. Gotta stay focused out there and limit your phone usage to audio and hands free and not let it distract you!!

    Stuff sounds trivial and basic to so many until things like this happen. It only takes 1 or 2 seconds of you not paying attention in a big rig to cause terrible accident. You can always pull over somewhere if you need to.
     
  5. Arctic_fox

    Arctic_fox Experienced mx13 execrator

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    This is why i go either hands free I.E talking on my head set or the phone stays in the cradle showing my HoS. Ill check messages when either i pull off for a leak or when i stop for some reason. If you need my attention so #### bad...well its a #### PHONE so use the blasted thing and CALL ME. If you cant reach me LEAVE A MESSAGE. If you just text me ill assume it can be safely ignored until i stop.

    Sadly more and more i see morons watching youtube browsing the net and whatever who get all pissed off and butthurt when you tell them to lock it the #### down.
     
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  6. Siinman

    Siinman Road Train Member

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    Text to Talk is pretty amazing. It will even read the texts for you as well. I use that if someone texts me since it will tell me if I get a text and read it for me. But most the time the phone sits in cradle with GPS on and or ELD information on it.
     
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  7. Gatordude

    Gatordude Medium Load Member

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  8. JoeyJunk

    JoeyJunk Road Train Member

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    Unless you are a 14 year old girl, you shouldn’t be using tic tac. I don’t know why adults, especially adult MEN are into that kind of crap.
     
  9. 201

    201 Road Train Member

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    Meh, no biggie. I hear the Unibomber committed suicide( at 81) so now there's a spot at Florence Super Max, ( even though he was moved from there a couple years ago) where there's like a 2 hour wait for the tennis courts. I still say, send these yahoos to one of those urine soaked heck holes in Peru, THAT might be a deterrent.
     
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  10. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    But but but… these things can’t happen, with the introduction of the CDL license they said they were taking all the bad drivers off the road!! So what has happened….?
     
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