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Eleven years ago the Feds made a law that if a driver was caught in the big rig, just talking on the cell phone while driving, not to mention texting, it was a $2,500 fine and six points against the CDL license. Of course, it is hard to see up into the cab of the truck if you are in a cop car. Yes lots of drivers still do it and it is not the sign of a high IQ.

Because if you have a wreck, the cops will pull your Iphone data, and they can prove you were texting while driving, and that probably will be the end of your CDL career.

There was a crash on I 16 in Georgia several years ago, traffic was stopped due to a wreck. An 18 wheeler crashed into the last car in the backup at 65 mph, the CDL guy never even hit his brakes.
Four nursing students killed in the car. Diesel driver was unhurt. Cops pulled his Iphone data, he was texting while driving, he got 5 years in prison.

This crap is an epidemic, especially on country roads. At least in town the texters can do their thing while at a stop light. In the country they just do it on the open road. I get pretty tired of folks drifting into my lane. I drive around 55,000 miles a year, so I see this a lot.

Lady from work a few years ago coming up north US52. Notorius for answering emails while coming in to work. Never hit the brakes and rear ended the stopped semi.in the road.
She's dead. She never knew what killed her.
I pull over to text. And phone comes thtough the radio.

Around here the most dangerous drivers are women and/or old folks (of all races) driving small SUV's. They text while driving, drive too slow about 50-100 yards behind the car in front of them and if they are sitting at red traffic light you have to honk or they'll just keep sit there texting on the their cell phone until the green light turns red again.

I forget, what are they called?

I wouldn't lump them all in there, I know a few with good heads on them.

I think that is PRECISELY what he and I were trying to convey. Gross generalizations are just that, GROSS.

4 years ago a guy texting and driving ran into me and totaled my 2002 Ranger. I had that truck since it was new and really liked it as a run around town and go to work truck. Since it was old the insurance check didnt amount to much and with the price of new and used trucks I havent been able to replace it.

Texting and driving should be charged the same as reckless driving.

No surprise. The general public is as retarded on this subject as they are at deciding who to knock up, how to pay bills, and whether to get the jab.

You mean like how we knew the guy was driving high in his moms car, living in his moms basement, and going to pick up drugs…???

we see that on I 5 here on the left coast. Its a higher percentage, with Hispanic drivers who are here illegally, and then with the Indians, Pakis and whatever Canada is importing into their nation. If I see a truck with BC plates, I bet one in 10 of them is a white guy.

And they think they are immune to speeding tickets here, like they are in BC.

I use my phone while driving at times. It’s not terribly difficult if you’re not retarded.

In 2019 our Grand Cherokee was t-boned and totalled by a young girl driving out of a WaWa parking lot while looking down at her phone.
Oncoming traffic was heavy and there was no way to avoid her.

This reminds me of a situation I had up in Portland on a city thru way. Was sitting at a redlight about the 5th car back. It was a summer day, so the windows were down in my car. The street had been widened to wear they had parking space in between trees that lined the side of the street. They had also put in a bike lane.

The street was going down a slight incline, which Portland doesn't have much flat land around it. The curb goes around these big trees that were on each side of the intercity street. The radio was off. I hear this 'Rackety Rackety Rackety' of a skate board , and look in my right rear view side mirror and here's this 20 something riding a skate board, down the bike lane, not paying attention with his doing something on his smart phone. He's also going at a pretty good clip.

Right past my front fender, he drifts off the bike lane, staring at his phone, and hits the curb around the tree. It sends him and his phone flying into this pretty wide tree. Me and everyone behind me are laughing our asses off. The several cars in front of me start to go as the light turned green. Before I can go, I hear another guy coming down the bike lane on his skate board. Look in my right side mirror and sure enough, he's doing the same at the last guy. Face buried in his phone and not looking to where he is going. He hits the same curb and goes flying into the tree, like the last guy.

Me and the cars directly behind me are laughing so hard, I don't have time to start and making it thru the light... I was laughing to hard. Same thing with most of those behind me, they were laughing to hard to care either. I did hear some horns honking further on back tho.

Another pair of victims to our education system, and 'captivating technology'. Later I was thinking too bad these idiots didn't break their figgin necks, or at least their knees. It does prove tho, that God DOES have a sense of humor.

I didn't " know it" but around here it is certainly predictable, because we have a real fair share of that for a town of this size. May not be the same everywhere, but plenty of people from your fair state, don't move here for "work opportunities", unless its in the recreational pharmaceutical industry.

My son will be 30 this May. Many of the kids he graduated high school with, that he personally knows, DON'T have jobs and have been collecting on the welfare rolls since they graduated. Most of them still live in mom's basement, and don't have cars, because they use mom and dads and don't have to even pay for fuel. The motivated ones tho at least work under the table in the recreational pharmaceutical industry.

My son on the other end ( because parents have some input into their children's life style), has several college degrees and certifications working in the medical industry and works full time at our local hospital. He has no college debt, because he got an EMT and Paramedic degree, and then working at the hospital full time, he was reimbursed for taking educational course, so taking two courses every 60 days on line, he also has a graduate degree in health care administration, that the hospital paid for.

My son also doesn't use drugs or alcohol, and volunteers to teach EMT courses and certifications to high school kids via the Scouting Explorer program over at Mercy Flights, which was the first Air Ambulance company in the nation. I've also been heavily involved in Scouting in town for 25 years now. So I see a lot of kids, as they grow up and run into many of them now that they are adults. What they do in life as adults is reflective on what their parents taught them to do.

The area is also loaded with adults, even up into their 60s and 70s, who still act like irresponsible teenagers, still living in the 60s. Heck at Walmart and a lot of stores around here , you see 70 and 80 year old grandmas covered in plenty of tattoos.

This area is NOT for , or full of MENSA society members. Sign of the times.

Texting while driving has illegal in Texas for quite a while but the cops aren't enforcing the law. I know a cop (retired now) that texted, responded to emails and surfed the internet while driving 80-90 mph down the highway. He said cops don't get tickets and he never did.

Using cell phones while driving should be treated like Dui.

I’ve noticed in the past couple of years when I see someone texting and driving, it’s usually not the younger crowd. I see more 60 somethings and up texting and driving than other age groups. It also doesn’t matter make or female, they all do it equally.

The real problem is many people, of all ages, have an addiction problem with their phone. If they use it while driving I imagine it's used at work and everywhere else to satisfy their craving.

And I believe every bit of it.. I have coffee with the owner of a large wrecker service in the area and he confirms that it's been a boon for his business.. Probably ditto for the mortuary...sadly to say.