This is your Profile page. Use it to check replies to your comments, keep track of comments
you've made or endorsed, and manage your regulation room account.
Interesting proposal. Do the highway money and license incentives seem insufficient, or do you see this as just another alternative?
Also, this proposal raises interesting questions about driver privacy, effects on small businesses, and the kind of federal involvement that FMCSA is proposing. Are there any drivers or small business owners out there who know about fleet tracking? Anyone who has had an analogous experience with self-regulated industries?
It’s true that any distraction can cause an accident. The agency decided that texting was particularly unsafe, in part on the basis of the VTTI study that we reference lower on the page. Click the graphic to get a sense of the safety risks associated with different activities.
A question: do you think that this rule imposes an undue burden on personal communication? What alternative restrictions on texting, if any, would you propose to impose on professional drivers?
Interesting proposal. Do the highway money and license incentives seem insufficient, or do you see this as just another alternative?
Also, this proposal raises interesting questions about driver privacy, effects on small businesses, and the kind of federal involvement that FMCSA is proposing. Are there any drivers or small business owners out there who know about fleet tracking? Anyone who has had an analogous experience with self-regulated industries?
It’s true that any distraction can cause an accident. The agency decided that texting was particularly unsafe, in part on the basis of the VTTI study that we reference lower on the page. Click the graphic to get a sense of the safety risks associated with different activities.
A question: do you think that this rule imposes an undue burden on personal communication? What alternative restrictions on texting, if any, would you propose to impose on professional drivers?