Independent Truckers Advocate Texting Ban

It's contagious! Not H1N1 but the widespread recognition that texting while driving is unduly dangerous. The Owner-Operator Independent Truckers Association, 158,000 truckers strong nationwide, have endorsed not only a texting while driving ban but also a greater governmental emphasis on safe-driving in proximity to commercial trucks, eighteen wheelers and semi-trucks.

As has been discussed extensively here in the past, professional truck drivers are the nation's safest drivers per mile driven. Unfortunately, when they are involved in crashes with cars, motorcycles and other smaller vehicles, the destruction, personal injury and wrongful death are considerable.

The OOIDA headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri has been in operation for 36 years and emphasizes not only safe driving by its members but also by the overall motoring public when in proximity to big rigs.