R&R Partners: Build the Brand, Protect the Brand » Department of Transportation http://www.rrpartnersblog.com R&R Partners Agency Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:21:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Texting while Trucking is actually Really Bad http://www.rrpartnersblog.com/2010/01/26/texting-while-trucking-is-actually-really-bad/ http://www.rrpartnersblog.com/2010/01/26/texting-while-trucking-is-actually-really-bad/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:43:33 +0000 David Weissman, Director of Public Relations-Arizona http://www.rrpartnersblog.com/?p=583 Well, if you’re a texting trucker or bus driver, you might have to keep your eyes on the road from now on! Today the U.S. Department of Transportation banned commercial truck drivers and bus drivers from texting while driving. Some cities, like Phoenix, AZ, have banned all drivers from texting while driving even if the state legislators in Arizona have bumbled several attempts at passing a statewide ban. Now, if only the cell phone manufacturers would invent technology that senses when the phone is being transported by a vehicle driver!  Until then, I fear any texting ban is simply unenforceable unless the Department of Transportation requires cars to be equipped and retrofitted with internal cameras.  Oh, Big Brother!

Read about the texting ban here.

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