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SACRAMENTO, CA - The bill would have increased the fine for a first hands-free or texting while driving offense to $50 and to $100 for subsequent offenses.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Called the Safe Drivers Act of 2011, this bill would direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish minimum regulations that ban use of mobile handheld devices on a public road.
Read More →RESTON, VA – ZoomSafer released a survey showing that 32 percent of companies have knowledge or evidence of on-the-job crashes that occurred as a result of employee distraction from use of cell phones while driving.
Read More →A study sponsored by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety found that top safety performers were likely to have a total ban on cell phone use and to terminate a driver for violating the company’s mobile device policy.
Read More →BATON ROUGE, LA - The Louisiana House sidetracked a bill May 6 that would have banned truck drivers from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving.
Read More →SACRAMENTO - The cost of a ticket for texting or using a hand-held phone in California would be among the toughest in the nation if a bill introduced in the state senate becomes law.
Read More →As more state legislatures across the U.S. enact laws that ban phoning and texting while driving, a new Highway Loss Data Institute study has found no reductions in crashes after hand-held phone bans take effect.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Truck and bus drivers who travel interstate roadways are now banned from using a handheld device to send text messages, U.S. officials said.
Read More →In some states, cell phone use declined after a ban was enacted, but then use began going back up.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) recently sought out the impact of cell phone laws in changing patterns of driver cell phone use in New York, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia.
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