[joedraper] Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:42:16 PM
I am in total agreement with you on the texting thing. Over here it is actually illegal to talk on your cell phone while driving but no laws on texting?
So many times, I see mindless people staring down into their lap area and you can see the hand working a phone sending a text. I have had to break countless times to avoid colission and then I see this was the reason. Makes me sick!
I never use my blackberry (have to name drop my crackberry lol) when driving. If the call is so important right then and there, well I have a message box on my BB. It is not worth endangering my life or any other road user. [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by METAL MELTDOWN from Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:54:42 PM)
METAL MELTDOWN wrote:
I Got a little jumpy when I saw that. We had an instance around here a few months back where a truck slammed into a car on the thruway after the car was disabled by hitting a deer. It killed the woman. It was later found out that the truck driver was over his hours AND looking at porn on a laptop! That started the whole ban the truck and trucker bullshit around these parts.
What people dont understand is that compaired to an automobile there are far less incidents involving tractor trailers. The make news when there is an accident, more often than not, due to there sheer size and the damage they can produce. There is evidence that a great many incidents involving trucks are caused by Joe Blow in his car and not the fault of the trucker.
Now the idiot that caused the accident I mentioned should have his nuts cut off but take a good look at how many deaths there are every month now that involve stupid people and texting. If I were you, I would be much more worried about the 17 year old girl cruising along texting her grilfriends and yacking on her cell phone! Thats the one that will get you killed. I was out to the store the other day and a Miata flew past me and ran the red light and was nearly T-boned by a car pulling out. The car got caught at the next light and lo and behold, it was a teen or early 20's hottie yacking on here Blackberry!! (Quoting Message by Dale T. from Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:43:16 AM)
Dale T. wrote:
Well I'm sure you're a good trucker and I didn't mean that all truck drivers are that way. Yes they have an important role. But Shoot! Some of those guys think they have a liscense to be uncourteous jerk drivers and I just get tired it. Wish I was a highway patrol sometimes.
METAL MELTDOWN wrote:
One of their "heavy loads" delivered the car you drive to the dealership you bought it from, delivered the computer you type on to the store and the groceries which gave you the energy to type your post. Lets ban trucks and save the roads for you 4 wheelers and see how long you survive without the everyday staples in which you live on!! yes, I am in trucking!!
Dale T. wrote:
Truck drivers! They pull up behind me and tailgate flashing their birght lights trying to get me to move over even though I'm doing the speed limit, cut me off with their long trailors, throw rocks in my windshield, think they own the road but they just tear it up with their heavy loads. Edited at: Saturday, February 06, 2010 1:15:49 PM
Edited at: Saturday, February 06, 2010 1:15:49 PM