New road rules- can we still use our CB's ?

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Originally Posted by Saitch

I think that any comms. radio chat would be far shorter and more concise than any 'phone palaver.

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Take a drive up Sesame Street any night. look at the trucks, and see if your opinion changes.

No doubt this will be driven by someone designing a new camera that can catch this type of activity who had had a sales person in explaining how much revenue can be had for a limited fixed cost to set up and run them. Easy sell to public as is for their safety. Queue tame special interest focus groups clamoring for its introduction or else all will die on the roads

That said for the first 80 odd years of motor vehicles people including sales reps survived without needing to communicate all the time

Plenty of corporate time wasted in these calls. Customer calls rep to ask about order. Sales rep calls office to find out. Office runs around to find out then calls rep back. Rep calls customer. This happens multiple times during day delaying process on order.

All could have been have been handled in one call about multiple customers at a pre-agreed time and the order sorted more quickly as people doing the work are not being interrupted multiple times.

Have implemented this a couple of places and productivity improved with bonus of happier workers as can get on with job. Sales people grumble but managing relationships is their job. If these was a true emergency could call boss but somehow this rarely occurred

A few years one of the Rover Car Club members was pulled over for being over 10k's over the speed limit, by single officer highway patrol vehicle coming in opposite direction, By the time he turned around & caught up to the member he had entered all the details of the members vehicle into the computer& knew all the members details when he pulled him up all at a speed over the speed limit to be able to catch up the member. The officer asked him all the usual questions. The member suggested he write out a ticket for himself while he was at it for using the computer while driving & the officer let him go with a warning.

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Originally Posted by Tins

Police on duty are granted exemptions from many of the road laws where I live, as it goes without saying that, unlike mere mortals, they are quite capable of speeding and talking on their phones without issue.

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Not always, NT Police officer pleads guilty in Darwin court to speeding in police vehicle while on duty - ABC News

Pretty sure Tins doesn’t live in the Northern Territory. Down here, the Police can do whatever Dan wants them to.

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Originally Posted by biggin

Pretty sure Tins doesn’t live in the Northern Territory. Down here, the Police can do whatever Dan wants them to.

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You got that right. Do as I say and I'll give you a nice BMW to drive..

More bloody over-reach....

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Originally Posted by 1950landy

A few years one of the Rover Car Club members was pulled over for being over 10k's over the speed limit, by single officer highway patrol vehicle coming in opposite direction, By the time he turned around & caught up to the member he had entered all the details of the members vehicle into the computer& knew all the members details when he pulled him up all at a speed over the speed limit to be able to catch up the member. The officer asked him all the usual questions. The member suggested he write out a ticket for himself while he was at it for using the computer while driving & the officer let him go with a warning.

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You may or may not be aware - the systems have the ability to read plates automatically and brings up the details.

Try borrowing the vehicle of a suspended driver - you'll be pulled up quite regularly

There was some talk a while ago (some years) in the cotton wad nanny state (Vic) that they were thinking about limiting people talking to a P plate drivers, thank heavens it never went into law, probably because it would have been impossible to enforce.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

I always have a look around when I've stopped at traffic lights, and I also ride to work so I can see inside cars pretty easily - I'd guesstimate that 25% of drivers at the lights are either holding phones in their hands or texting on their laps when driving. And that's despite it being 3 demerit points. When I'm driving I never use to beep people who were slow to move off when the lights turned green, but I do now because they're inevitably looking down at their phones.

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Odd .... I can't edit my own post .... anyway, as it happens holding your phone is actually 4 demerit points, not 3 ..... and a $545 fine.