Talkcdl Trucking Podcast

Cell Phone Tickets in TruckingHow Cell Phone Tickets Effect Truckers. Truck drivers have a new disease that has sprung up in the last ten years. Its called a "Cell Phone Ticket". This is a very damaging disease, unfortunately this disease is not passed on by others. Instead just like other diseases that come from bad living and habits such as diabetes, high blood pressure and other diseases that can be caused by lifestyle so can a cell phone ticket disease. If we choose to pick up a hand held device knowing it can kill our CDL, then we have made a bad choice. The effects that can come from this ticket are detrimental. One ticket like this and you eliminate 99% of any trucking company that will hire you. I Thats right, most carriers have insurance policies that will simply not allow them to hire a driver with a cell phone ticket. We recently spoke with a safety director about this issue and he told TalkCDL "if a driver chooses to use a cell phone in a commercial vehicle knowing the impact it can have on a truc