Am I the only truck driver without a bluetooth headset?

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  1. DenBob

    DenBob Light Load Member

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    ....a bluetooth headset ?
    Would anybody agree that it's the conversation that distracts a driver who is on the phone, rather than
    having a hand next to one's ear ?
    That is to say it's the brain that gets distracted, not the palm or the elbow ?
     
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  3. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Bluetooth, whether it be a headset or built into the truck/car, radio etc, allows you to keep both hands free for driving. Personally, I don't feel distracted by phone calls but I only answer calls from two people when driving.
     
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  4. SteerTire

    SteerTire Road Train Member

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    I use a headset no matter where I am. I don’t have to be driving.

    So yes. You are the only one that doesn’t own one
     
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  5. IluvCATS

    IluvCATS Road Train Member

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    Yes u are the only driver with no Bluetooth. You are correct. Yes we have no bananas today..
     
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  6. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

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    But we do have a poop thrower.
     
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  7. stayinback

    stayinback Road Train Member

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    Your not that guy I see at the Truckstop with that thing cemented to your Cranium,Are You? With that flashing blue light that gets everyone's attention no matter how you try to avoid it.

    You don't walk in your home and greet your Wife and Kids with that thing on your head,Do you?
     
  8. Opus

    Opus Road Train Member

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    No
     
  9. IluvCATS

    IluvCATS Road Train Member

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    I like to wear my rotated and ####ed upwards. My looks cool that way.
     
  10. SteerTire

    SteerTire Road Train Member

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    I use it ANY time I’m on the phone. But I generally don’t wear it, unless I’m on the phone.

    Are you one of them annoying guys who put me on speaker phone while parked beside a reefer from hell? Simply because you can’t hold a notepad and pen in the same hand while writing.

    Now, make fun of my oil filter wrench. And I’ll hunt you down. And I will find you ;)

    Tools work, use them
     
  11. Opus

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