The National Transportation Safety Board just banned mobile texting and talking on portable devices by all 400 of their employees. For the last three years the NTSB has been recommending motorcoach and school bus drivers be bannded from mobile device use. There are no states that completely ban cell phone use by drivers. That may change though as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood holds a summit on September 30 to discuss mobile cell and smartphone use.
Wayne is a diehard Blackberry user and consultant specializing in Sage MAS90 Accounting Software. He lives in Glastonbury CT with his two children.
When not helping them with their homework or pushing the latest school fundraiser off on his co-workers, he is active hiking, Scuba Diving and investigating all manner of technology.
The company I work for does a lot of transportation planning and design work, including roadway safety analyses. Over a year ago, we banned employees’ use of mobile devices while driving on company time. I’ve found that I rarely do it when driving on my own time now, too.
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it is about time we need to ban text/talking while driving in every state!!
