{"id":233389,"date":"2010-01-26T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5457359"},"modified":"2010-01-26T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:49:00","slug":"nationwide-no-texting-law-goes-into-effect-for-buses-and-trucks-that-could-crush-you-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233389","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide No Texting Law Goes Into Effect For Buses and Trucks That Could Crush You [Cellphones]"},"content":{"rendered":"

There isn’t a nationwide ban on texting for regular drivers (yet), but starting today bus drivers and commercial truckers will have to put down the cellphone and concentrate on the road.<\/p>\n

I think I speak for just about everyone that isn’t a bus or truck driver when I say…it’s about damn time. I mean, you would be a dammed fool to text while driving any sort of vehicle<\/a>, but when a big rig goes down there is a much greater potential for disaster (not to mention a bus full of kids). The new ban carries fines of up to $2,750. [Reuters<\/a> via Crunchgear<\/a> Image via cuteegroup<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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There isn’t a nationwide ban on texting for regular drivers (yet), but starting today bus drivers and commercial truckers will have to put down the cellphone and concentrate on the road. I think I speak for just about everyone that isn’t a bus or truck driver when I say…it’s about damn time. I mean, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}