Help with violations. “OPERATE VEHICLE WHILE TEXTING"

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  1. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    i understand if I got lasik, which is a permanent eye surgery.
    But I got ICL, which is a lens inserted into the eye. It can be reversed, much like taking off glasses.
    That’s why the corrective lens is valid. But the cop wouldn’t listen lmao
     
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  3. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    unfortunately, I only got violations, as in warnings, no actual citation.
     
  4. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    I get it, I see #######es All the time on their phone, I’m not one of them. I haven’t received a ticket for anything in the last 10 years, did get some tickets in my early twenties, but I’ve since wised up.
    I’m not on my phone in my car, much less my truck.

    if my phone was anywhere but behind the brake pedal, I would have left it, but it being behind the brake pedal. I feel posed a bigger risk than me reaching down and getting it.

    I didn’t take my eyes off the road when I was retrieving the phone. At 6’2 my arms were long enough to reach down, without looking away.

    Not an excuse, but I wasn’t on my phone texting, or inattentive.
     
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  5. Opus

    Opus Road Train Member

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    Nope. All he has to say is that you were looking at it.
     
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  6. dosgatos

    dosgatos Medium Load Member

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    Could have continued to the Loves to retrieve your phone.
     
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  7. wichris

    wichris Road Train Member

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    If you only got violations on the inspection form, no tickets, you can only DATA-Q them.
     
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  8. dosgatos

    dosgatos Medium Load Member

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    Phone dropped all by itself? Got tired of living and decided to end it all and jumped? If your phone has your eld on it, you're supposed to have it in a mount, at all times, within reach, visible to the driver. Not on the seat.
    Would like to see the driver facing camera on this one.
     
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  9. Eddiec

    Eddiec Road Train Member

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    The only way to remove DOT violations is through the DATQ process, otherwise they will be on your PSP report for 3 years.
     
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  10. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    with the phone behind the brake pedal? I would say not stopping and potentially killing myself or others is a tad bit worse than grabbing my phone, no?
     
  11. dosgatos

    dosgatos Medium Load Member

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    How big is your phone?

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