Over the past month, we’ve been conducting a survey to assess how FMCSA-regulated fleet operators are reacting now that they’re required to ensure employee don’t use hand-held mobile phones while driving. After surveying over 550 fleet operators, we’ve compiled the results – and the data is fascinating.
The majority of fleets lack confidence in their current efforts to manage employee cell phone use while driving – fewer than one-third (33.1%) said that they are “very confident” that reactive methods like peer reporting and post-crash discipline will be enough to ensure employees comply with the hand-held ban. As a result of that lack in confidence, over a quarter (27%) plan to evaluate technology solutions to foster compliance with the FMCSA’s cell phone rules.
Click through this slideshow for a summary of the survey results, then download a free copy of the detailed analysis!
People who believe using a cell phone while ivdring is just basic multi-tasking and doesn’t affect their ivdring are sadly deluded. Every person who talks on a cell while behind the wheel should be forced to watch a video of him/her self. It absorbs enough of your attention that your reactions, unbeknownst to you, are slowed. It only takes a fraction of a second delay at 60 mph to kill or be killed. We will never know what percentage of accidents are caused by cell phone use, but you can call any police force you want, and find traffic officers that have attended accident scenes and found cell phones on the floor, TURNED ON, and sometimes STILL CONNECTED! Nobody sees the driver throw it there, but there is no other explanation. I will not use the cell phone in traffic, or on the highway, except in emergency. Twice I have used it while ivdring to call police.