LaHood wants ban on texting and driving
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- News Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer | about 1 month agoPresident Obama signed an executive order on Wednesday night that put the ban in place. LaHood said the Transportation Department plans to outlaw texting by interstate truck and bus drivers. Cell phone use would be restricted for the truckers and bus...
- News Source: Baltimore Sun | about 1 month agoPresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order instructing federal workers not to send text messages while driving government vehicles or their own vehicles while on the job. Thursday's order came Thursday, the same day a new state law took...
- News Source: The Economist | about 1 month agoOn average (when not in recession) 42,000 Americans die in traffic accidents each year...Factor in the fivefold difference in population and the United States still comes out with over two-and-a-half times more road deaths. Even allowing for the fact...
- News Source: The Dallas Morning News | about 1 month agoThe Dallas Morning News Dave Michaels reported from Washington, and Kim Horner from Dallas. The Obama administration said Thursday that it would propose the first federal restrictions on the use of cellphones while driving, including a ban on text...
- News Source: Denver Post | about 1 month agoPresident Barack Obama has banned federal employees from text messaging when they are behind the wheel of government vehicles and from texting in their own cars if they use government-issued phones or are on official business. The ban, in the form of...
- News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal | about 1 month agoThe Transportation Department, in the federal government's first big push to curb distracted driving, said it would ban text-messaging by truckers, bus drivers and railroad engineers, and urge states to impose similar restrictions on drivers of...
- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comThe Obama administration said Thursday it will seek to ban text messaging by interstate bus drivers and truckers and push states to pass their own laws against driving cars while distracted. ... LaHood declined to endorse Schumer's bill, saying
- Blog Source: www.hawaii247.org“This order sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable. It shows that the federal government is leading by example,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. ...
- Blog Source: www.egmcartech.comThe president's order encourage federal contractors and others doing business with the U.S. government to enforce their own ban on texting while driving on the job, the White House said. “This order sends a very clear signal to the American public
- Blog Source: www.phonesreview.co.ukOn Wednesday night, President Obama put his signature to an executive order initiating the ban of federal employees sending text messages while driving on the job or while in a government owned vehicle. Ray LaHood, the Transport Secretary announced
- Blog Source: www.govtechblogs.comThe comment came just before the opening of a two-day summit on distracted driving convened by LaHood in Washington, DC. As NPR reported this morning,. Eighteen states and the nation's capital now have laws that ban sending or receiving text messages
- Blog Source: www.villainouscompany.comThe executive order also directs executive departments and agencies to encourage contractors and contractor employees to adopt and enforce policies to ban texting while driving on official government business. ... LaHood will also outline some wider
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@markknoller Pres. Obama just issued an Executive Order directing all federal employees: no text messaging while driving.
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@palafo Cumulative effect of these "distracted driving" pieces is to make me never want to be in a car again. - http://bit.ly/Xm15A
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