Really? No Bluetooth at Schneider

Fact of the matter is the headset is a tool. I have actually called ops and flat told them I was on a hands free while rolling and NEEDED to make the call. Missed a turn on a road with 0 shoulder and no sign of a turn-around in sight. Called for help finding a path back to where I needed to be. After I arrived, I called back and we had a conversation about it, but I explained that if I could have stopped to figure out my own way out, I wouldn't have needed to call, but to stop would have meant stopping square in the lane of traffic. They understood.

It helps that I have no accidents, no criticals, and am a generally high-output low-cost driver that doesn't do that all the time. Besides that, yes, I use my headset every day to talk with my honey and to talk with a couple orange friends. I understand I am taking a chance, and us group of friends are all of an agreement that we only use it out on the open road; any bad weather, traffic, construction, or city driving and we hang up.

 

Wow u actually called because you missed a turn. That's crazy. You must have been really scared to make that call.

 

I wasn't scared one bit.

The way I make my decisions day-to-day is:
1) What is the safe or safest thing to do?
2) What is the legal thing to do?
3) What is the right thing to do?
4) What is the Schneider thing to do?

In that situation, I was on a 2 lane country road where the solid line was painted on the edge of the concrete, 2' grass shoulders covered in about a foot of freshly plowed and drifted powder. Stopping cold would be neither safe nor legal nor right - so no. Making a blind turn is so incredibly risky in that situation - so no. Attempting to glance at Google maps and get any meaningful info off it in that situation is neither safe, legal, right, nor SNI right to do - so NO. All my SNI buddies I could call to bail me out are all going down the road - so nope. What's left? Call ops on a hands-free. It is arguably safe, it is dot legal, and in that situation the right thing to do - but SNI wouldn't like it. Well, that or test the stability of that shoulder while grossing over 75. They basically just said "you know we're really not suppose to do this right?" "what is my option?" "Ok... Go up to this, turn left, etc etc. You should be fine once there. Be safe. *click*"

 

I only need my XM radio and I'm fine. I hate talking on the phone.

 

You mean, like a burner-phone? You know, the one's drug dealers use? Ha ha

 

I have been looking into getting one for an emergency but, you have to use the minutes once you get them, that month. If I have to use it for an emergency, the one I am thinking of anyway, there probably won't be any minute cards to buy at that time....

 

I was kidding, obviously. They always try to get ya somehow. Wouldn't it just be cheaper to get a plan with like Sprint or T-mobile for $20 a month, then waste money on getting a time card? Ultimately, you'd save money in the long run....that's my 2 cents, anyways.