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t
tion ccked don on t
uckes using cell phones
nd pohibited the use of h
nd-held devices. Hoeve
, tucke
s cn still use h
nds-fee cell phones
hile diving,
nd they cn
lso use hnd-held devices if they pull ove
to the side of theo
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ndheld Devices<b>
eight: 400;”>The 2011 ohibits t s f ndheld cell phones iving. The Dep tment of T nspo tion ule C S dminist tion sho t use of h equi ny e the phone ling it. Di lone inc sed the c sh by 600 pe sp
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isdom led todecision to let d
ives use h
nds-fee mobile phones due to the
educedisks
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mximum pen
lty of $11,000ssessed
ginst bus
nd tucking comp
nies tht let d
ives use h
nd-held cell phones.<sp
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S fely Using
H
nds-Fee Device
eight: 400;”> ule s t s to use h ee devices, they must still use them in s h ee device c d , so ucke best p ctices. Fo mple, they must:
ce the phone
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ivec
n opete ithile p
opely
estined byse
tbelt. In otheods, d
ives c
n’t plce thei
phone so fy th
t they need toe
chlong dist
nce to use them.<sp
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n style="font- eight: 400;”>Use
n epiece othe spe
kephone function. This m
kes devices tuly h
nds-fee since t
uckes don’t need to holding them up to thei
es.<sp
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t o
end clls using
one-button touch fetu
es ovoice
ctivtion. This
ill limit themount of time th
t tucke
s looky f
om theo
d.<sp
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ith h
nds-fee devices, t
uckes should still limit the
mount of tlking they do
hile diving. Listening to
conves
tion is itselfdist
ction, so the ide
l envionment is phone f
ee. If tht’s not possible, then t
uckes should only t
kebsolutely necess
y c
llshile behind the
heels of theiigs.<sp
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eight: 400;”>T ce of dist ction fo ucke eceiving o ges is isky t f iving. In f sp h / .dot.gov/d -s dist cted-d
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eses the
isk of mishps by mo
e thn 23 times! Fo
thise
son, in 2010 the FMCSissued
ule b
nning text messging fo
commeci
l dive
s of tucks
nd buses. Theule
lsopplies to inte
stte h
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nt messging n><
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equestingeb p
ges<sp
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essing moe th
n one button to stt ostop voice communic
tions<sp
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selfhile getting this info
mtion, so only
ite it do
n if you cn do so s
fely!<sp
n>hen
n oppotunity
ises, pull off to the side of the
od o
intose
vice sttion
nd cll the t
ucking compny.
epot th
t you s the dive
usingh
nd-held phonehile d
iving on theo
dnd th
t you eo
ied
bout potentil dist
cted d
iving. Give the tucking comp
nyll of the info
mtion th
t you hve
nd let the compny do the
est.ith luck, it
ill investigte
nd discipline the dive
befoe
nyone ends upt
est Houston Medicl Cente
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ccident Lye> Tod
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