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Driven to Distraction * USA - Truckers Insist on Keeping Computers in the Cab
New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by MATT RICHTEL -September 27, 2009: -- Crisscrossing the country, hundreds of thousands of long-haul truckers use computers in their cabs to get directions and stay in close contact with dispatchers, saving precious minutes that might otherwise be spent at the side of the road... The trucking industry says these devices can be used safely, posing less of a distraction than BlackBerrys, iPhones and similar gadgets, and therefore should be exempted from legislation that would ban texting while driving... Clayton Boyce, spokesman for the American Trucking Associations, who said the industry does not condone texting while driving, said computers used by truckers require less concentration than phones... But Robert D. Foss, a senior researcher at the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina, said the dispatch computers and texting devices present the same potential for distraction... The legislation will be discussed at a conference on distracted driving in Washington, starting Wednesday, organized by the Transportation Department... (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein for The New York Times -September 28, 2009: Truckers Say Computers Are Needed in Cab. Like many truckers, Kurt Long uses a dispatching computer. “We’re supposed to pull over,” he said, “but nobody ever does")Labels: driver distraction
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