New Phone Rule

and they still don't have seat belts in busses either!

Sooner or later they will have run out of things to legislate for safety on commercial drivers, and they will be forced to look at the regular motoring public that is really responsible for 7/8 of all the fatalities.

 

We could only wish. As long as there is money to be extorted from the truckers, We are screwed!

 

Apparently bluetooths and/or headsets are forbidden as well ... only allowing bluetooth and/or hands-free when pushing a single button to answer the phone ...so if in a court of law, they prove that you used more than one button to dial a number you're ### is fired, fined and put in jail. That's just for using a headset ... great!

http://www.intermodalinsco.com/2011/12/23/hand-held-mobile-phones-now-less-mobile/

 

No they aren't. Read below in the quote of the part of the article that explains this in the link you posted....

Most Bluetooth enabled hands-free headsets utilize the voice dialing feature in modern-day cell phones. You push that "one" button on the headset to activate it. You dont even have to touch your phone. You dial your number just by simply talking to your phone. Not only that, some phones/headsets even have the ability to do voice texting, voice email, voicemail and a bunch other features, again, all without even picking up the phone.

I suppose they could. Thats kind of the point. Thats why we have bluetooth technology.

Um, nope.

 

I agree with you completely but as someone on here once pointed out, the trucking industry is a government-mandated industry. All these igjot four-wheelers that we constantly complain about, are not mandated the way we are.

We have to follow and abide by all sorts of regulations whereas all the soccer moms, high-shool kids on a Saturday night, colledge kids, excetera, excetera, do not.

 

Well ... exactly being my point sir, if you DON'T have the voice enabling features on your phone, you're screwed, bluetooths become obsolete with this new rule. So in reality what is needed is a phone that has a voice activated dialing feature ... sigh ... why don't they just say that CMV drivers need to go buy the fanciest phone out there ... I swear these lawmakers are in cahoots with all these big companies

 

You don't have to have the fanciest phone on the market to get voice-dialing benefits. As a matter of fact, my mom has a twenty dollar dumbphone that has just about as much of these features as my evo 4G smartphone has.

Although I'm in agreeance that this new law is bogus, especially with the amount of the fine if you get caught, it is the law and if you do get caught, prepare to make a huge "charitable donation" to the state you got caught in.

But, ask yourself this question.... What is cheaper, paying a 2500 dollar fine, or, spending a lot less money on a phone that has voice features and on a reputable headset? Then you can talk to your hearts content while you drive and not break any laws.... Well, that is until some jackarse politician decides to outlaw Bluetooths as well.

 

LOL ... yeah, but I don't think that'll ever happen UNLESS they make something better than a bluetooth and then force the consumer public to buy that new and improved phone technology... and you're absolutely right 2,750 bucks is WAY too much of a fine ... they just want free money man to fix the deficit or something. But I wish I had your mom's twenty dollar piece of $#!t instead of my twenty dollar piece of $#!t

 

Well, I got no problem staying on top of new technology. I actually prefer it.

I get a kick out of seeing people with these old outdated phones. In this day of age, it not a budget-breaker to get a new phone every couple of years. It's not like you have to choose groceries or a phone these days, or dip into your kids college fund for a decent phone.

Yeah, it is a lot of money for holding a cell phone to your ear while you drive now but the cool thing about these fines is, if you don't do it, there's no fine. Just like with that 3,000 dollar fine, plus overweight fine for how much over you are for crossing the Pawtucket bridge in Rhode island. If your over 17,000 pounds, or whatever the limit is, if you stay off of it and take I-295 around it, no fine.

As I said, they're not hard to get and don't cost a fortune.

Also, since the smartphone hasn't completely taken over yet, the talk and text phones, which I like to refer to as dumbphones, are available with more and more smartphone features. That phone that my mom has, which I think is the Samsung rugby, has internet on it, plus a bunch other stuff. It's not like that of my evo, but it certainly is not like the talk and text phones of more than several years ago like the Motorola v60, or razor phone where pretty much all they were good for was talking and texting.

 

Since when is a truck driver so concerned over 1 rule ????


Treat it like all the other rules, selective compliance !!!!