Typing While Driving

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  1. soonerpete

    soonerpete Bobtail Member

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    How many of you type messages on your Mobile Comm unit while driving?
    Does your company do anything to turn the unit off while vehicle is in motion?
     
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    rookietrucker Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Some companies don't shut off the qualcomm. They make it so you can't read any messages until the vehicle is stopped. Sometimes it is a pain in the butt. I can understand about typing and driving though.
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    I ignore the Qualcomm while driving and they know it . If something is urgent they can notify me by cell phone .(and they expect me to stop to answer the phone or return a missed call ) .
     
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    ANYone who drives anything should have better sense than to try to key. Doesn't matter if it is a Qual Com, laptop, or texting. This is just plain ignorant and stupid.

    Hell, most of the idiots on the road can't even drive and talk on a cell phone safely. Let alone texting.
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    Some of them can barely handle just driving!
     
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    I didn't see it personally, but a rumor at the company I work for that a trainer ran off the road and rolled in a ditch. Not paying attention while typing on the Q/C showing a student what message to send.

    Happened last spring...............LOL...........:biggrin_2552:

    Go figure..........
     
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    rocknroll nik High Risk Load Member

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    As far as qualcomms i can't stand the thing and it never fails you just get the truck up to road speed and beep the rotten thing goes off what a hassle. And I really think texting while driving is a no no.... oh man was that a speed bump or a vw :biggrin_255:
     
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    Most of the time I've spent equipped with a Qualcomm unit, I had a co-driver.
    That was handy. :biggrin_25519:

    It was when he was driving that things got scary...


    Can't tell ya how many times I imagined that danged *beep* in my sleep.
     
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    I never type while driving...



















    I would have to stop the DVD I'm watching.
     
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    ^LMFAO


    I always kept it on my pass seat and would read directions to final as I drove. No difference in glancing at that or at a copy you wrote down. I don't send messages or idiotic crap like that though.


    I did however see a woman I was trying to either pass or get behind (either would have worked, I needed to get over to turn) 2 months ago who was simply matching my speed no matter what I did. I finally realized the moron was typing on her laptop in the passenger seat and simply using me for a reference point out of her peripheral vision to try to stay in her lane.

    A quick BLAST from the airhorn awoke her to the fact we were doing now 30 in a 70 and I needed to be where she was.
     
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