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The Big Rigs

We're gonna talk about the big ones... trucks and buses that require those 3 marker lights front and rear. Everything from dual rear wheel pickups to class 8 trucks to the bus that takes you to work.

Apr 9, 2008 - Hang up and drive!

Back in November, I made note of an upgrade to NJ's cell-phoning-while-driving law.  Driving and using a handheld cell phone would become a primary offense on March 1 2008, and it would be beefed with an anti-text-messaging ban as well.

The results are in.

In February 2008, the last month of the previous rules, NJ courts handled 1300 cell-phone tickets.  In March 2008, add another zero - thirteen thousand.  In fact, that's almost as many as the preceding 12 months (16,000 from March 2007 to February 2008).

State and local police departments in NJ are not allowing a grace period to get used to the new tougher rules... they want to break drivers of the habit once and for all. 

More on the story here...  Associated Press/WCBS880.com

6:23 am | Categories: highways, driving styles, law enforcement, cell phone, text message
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pf_flyer - May 5, 2008 9:11 am
I've concluded that cell phones are more of an addiction or mental illness. While explaining that to someone recently, they came back with the idea that it's just changing times. Just like we're used to indoor plumbing, but his grandfather had an outhouse. But the difference is I don't go to the bathroom just because one is there ;)
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