Texting and driving? I snitch.

I'm with you there, man. I don't even HAVE text capabilities on my company phone. For ^^^ that reason, I'm sure.....and totally cool with that. Good for YOU.

 

I'm sick of it too , had truck almost put me in the the other day.

 

Do you have a company name, truck #, where about it happened?

 

What about the clowns with their iPad velcroed to steering wheel. Technology has created idiots. We never used to be looking at a GPS, or phone or all those other gizmos. You paid attention to the road, too many distractions today all part of making the job easier.. I don't think so. I still will use a post it note on dash with exits and road names over a GPS changing its directions halfway through a lane change

 

I disagree slightly.

Idiocy has always been prevalent. It will always be. Technology has only made it more accessible & visible.

What it boils down to, IMO, is how & when you use the tools placed at your disposal.

 

I use GPS on a tablet mounted to my dash with Google maps.

I never text or chat. Seriously, if people need to gab, just get a Bluetooth headset.

 

I Told my girls years ago- if you wanna talk to Dad while I'm at Work- CALL ME!! Don't ever send me a text-
matter of Fact- I Don't do texts from them-or any family- If I Cant Hear your voice, I Don't need to communicate with you.

 

You'll be spending a lot of time on the side of the road making phone calls. If that is the worst thing that happens you'll be lucky.

 

Yep, there's too many doing it to report them all. You see so many doing stupid stuff that trying to be the 'distracted driving police' would be a never ending endeavor that would likely backfire in some way. Calling the cops is pretty much pointless. Better to just myob.

Or is that partly why it's gotten so bad?

I wish I knew the answer to that but with so many distracted drivers running into stopped traffic something needs to happen.

When I see a driver who's erratic I call out on the CB and ask if they're OK. Only got a verbal response once but a good number do start driving properly once they realize how obviously bad they're doing. Of course they're probably right back at it 10 minutes later.