New rule for truck, bus drivers: No texting

Summary: Commercial truck or bus drivers are no longer allowed to text for safety reasons. Under federal guidelines that will go into place immediately, any bus or truck drivers that are found texting while driving may have to pay a fine of up to $2,750. This new law was meant to reduce distractions while driving and reduce preventable accidents on our nation's highways. Many people agree with this new law: President Obama signed an executive order that restricts the drivers of federal vehicles from texting.

My Opinion: I completely agree with this new law, not just for truck and bus drivers, but for everyone on the roads. I think that it would only do good: make fewer distractions for drivers, and in turn, make for less crashes on the highways that could have been easily avoided if the driver was not texting. I think that all cars sold should be sold with a device that stops cell phones from working while inside the car. There is nothing so important that a driver cannot wait until they get to their destination to text. Some may argue that they can successfully text and drive cautiously at the same time; I do not agree. If someone is texting, regardless of what kind of vehicle they are driving, they are not completely focused on driving. According to this article, 6,000 people died in 2008 in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver. This could be so easily remedied by just putting that cell phone away. I think that this new law not allowing truck or bus drivers to text should be extended to all drivers. It would make for much safer highways.


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