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RULES * USA - Federal safety officials parse enforcement of TV ban on in-cab laptops
Can commercial drivers have computer screens within view of their driver’s seats?
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -6 June 2008: -- Only days after some truck drivers warned and ticketed for having a laptop computer in-cab at an Arizona checkpoint, regulators in the highest levels of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration are scrambling to answer that controversial question... Last week, FMCSA spokesman Duane DeBruyne told that he doesn’t believe laptop computers fall under Section 393.88 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations... “The title of 393.88 is ‘television receivers” DeBruyne said. “Laptop computers are not television receivers; therefore, they are not prohibited by FMCSA regulations.”... Later in the week, Stephen Campbell, executive director of the non-profit Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance told that FMCSA Administrator John Hill and others are working to issue guidance regarding the interpretation of Federal Safety Regulation 393.88, which is titled “television receivers” and specifically bans a “screen or other means of visually receiving a television broadcast” from being within the driver’s view...
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