This one blows my mind!

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I don't text while driving. I got that big ass truck, stick shift and it would be impossible to do it. I will only talk while driving if my bluetooth is in or else I pull over. If I hit someone with that behemoth I drive, it would not be pretty.

[twisteroo]

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Yeah, especially if he was riding a bike!!!

[LKTraz]

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Found a site with all the state laws on cell phone/texting while driving.

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/..._laws.html


Now why anyone in this day and age would not get a bluetooth is beyond me. I mean it's not like they all cost oodles of $$$. You can get some decent ones for $20!!!!!!!

If you can invest the money in a plan that lets you gab your ass off 24/7 and a high tech phone then what's 20 bucks?

[Sally]

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Believe it or not, I've never texted anyone in my life. The last place I'd even attempt to try texting would be while driving. I do have a bluetooth and talk on the phone while driving, but it's always for business.

[twisteroo]

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I don't text too much anyway. The only one I text is my wife, and that's only because after 25 years we can't stand talking to each other anymore.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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I text Matt when I know he can't answer the phone for trivial stuff at work. At least he gets a message and calls me when he's free.

[twisteroo]

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I text Matt when I know he can't answer the phone for trivial stuff at work. At least he gets a message and calls me when he's free.

Yeah, that's what I meant too.:p

[LKTraz]

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I talk on the phone quite a bit while driving the truck but almost never in the personal vehicle. No matter where it is I use my bluetooth. Hell, if I use my cell from the house I have that little fucker stuck in my ear!

Mostly I'm helping one or another of our other drivers find some place, get directions (almost the same thing), figure out log book problems or some other job related thing. Some times it's simply to help each other no be so bored we get drowsy on a long trip.

I can't imagine what the hell some people must be talking about that's so damned important that they will keep one hand off the wheel for. Secondly, most people tend to focus on the conversation rather than their driving making the practice even more hazardous.

So what makes truck drivers any different? We are trained to be hyper aware of our driving environment regardless of what is going on. On average a commercial driver makes in the neighborhood of 1,000 decisions an hour! Many of these are subconscious but occurring none the less.

I am fully in favor of the many of the distracted driving statutes that some states are adopting.

[twisteroo]

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People argue with me that they see cops an the phone all the time too, but they even have a laptop set up to use while driving, trained and part of their job. You won't win that arguments.
There is kind of a fine line with this stuff, is it different to be using my GPS while driving, switching CDs, eating a big mac, drinking coffee? Hell, I've eaten KFC at 75mph before.
I pick and choose, eating fried chicken is safer at 75mph on the interstate than driving 30mph through town.
I still say make using phones talking/texting a felony, first offense.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/2...8033.shtml
3 years ago, everyone around here still remembers it.

Another thing I alway wonder about: I'll be watching the news and I always see accidents that happen in the city of Buffalo or Rochester. There are cars rolled over, porches ripped off of houses, trees down. people trapped, explosions, wreckage, carnage, etc, etc...some of them look like an Indy car crash. I always wonder, isn't the speed limit in the city like 30mph? WTF?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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That story made national news. You see ads on the teen channels (nick, nick teen etc) about wreckless driving among kids now.
You can hear the kids in my neighborhood screeching through the streets at mach speed. For shit's sake, my street has only 3 houses on it! We're in a tiny neighborhood up against the park. They don't even bother putting street signs up but any unposted road here is supposed to be 30 MPH. WTF is 30 mph doing at all in my area? 25 tops. The streets are too short to get up to 30 in most cases.