Computers in Cab Regulations

If you're gonna be using it going down the road...Quit driving NOW and go back to work at McDonalds before you kill someone!

 

There aren't any regs against having a laptop in the cab that I know of. Using it is a different story. All the states have some sort of law against distracted driving. I'm partially agree with Black W900. Get off the road if you need to use the laptop. IMO the laptop belongs in its carrying case on or under the bunk. Get a voice command GPS if you need directions.

 

It's not far away. When they passed the texting ban on commercial vehicles, they commented on that computers were next.

I'm off duty in the sleeper when I use my laptop. I could see where some could use a laptop like a GPS. But most I see use it irresponsibly and it's a distraction when you have to turn your head to look at it while driving. That second could be the second traffic stops in front of you.

 

My computer stays stowed safely in my bunk area until I'm parked.
Oly an IDIOT would use a computer in a moving truck or in any vehicle while it's in motion!

 

So I guess the driver that I saw with the newspaper laid out on his steering wheel going down I-20 was an idiot too. LMAO

 

I help my son in law operate a hot shot one-ton truck, it's a rolling office. Phone, copy/fax, internet, etc. The guy in the right seat does the "office work" while in route with a PC on a stand slighty to the left and in front of the right seater. We have been pulled over a few times by DOT and they have never commented on it. I have no idea what will happen if the airbag goes off.

 

My company puts the qualcomm brackets in a really retarded place, behind the passenger seat. I can hardly even get it in the bracket if im parked, let alone moving. Qualcomm is always on the floor next to the drivers seat, unless im in the sleeper, then it comes to the sleeper with me. Truck has been searched by US customs, *thoroughly* searched by canadian customs, and I've been pulled over by DOT, with it in plain sight, and none of them have said anything. Canadian customs probably even checked the qualcomm for illegal activity! However, one time a US customs officer tripped on it.

I don't safely stow it, am i an idiot?