General Chat

If anyone calls me while i am driving ,i can speak to them without taking a hand off the wheel ,long enough to tell them i will call them back when i can find a place to stop in safety ,
If my missus is in the car ,she can answer instead ,simple as ,Fred. ;-)

Bob :-D :-D :-D

KIds in back unrestrained
Blessed cartridge players - never mastered those (mine was in glove compartment)
Cassete recorders with brown tap billowing round your face and crotch
Sweets and pipes
Ciggies burning on carpet
Big holes in the chassis to see the road surface whistling past :-D :-D :-D

Remember those liitle indicator arms that would jump up. If car behind saw you signalling, it was your lucky day :-D :-D

LOL

when I was a lot younger a Army driving instructor said

" if you MUST smoke, keep it in your right hand, because its dodgy using the left hand, because thats used for the gearstick"


how many people remember having to wind down the window, wave your arm/hand around, do the manouvre, rewind the window.
that be difficult juggling a sandwich as well wouldnt it?LOL

and most important Mirror, Signal, Manouvre........

todays drivers have it too easy.......dont have to take your hands off the wheel.......

DET My company has stopped it. And senior mamagement have been to some pretty hard-hitting presentations and all seem to agree that the main board decision is correct.

I have always lived on the phone when I was driving. Am not sure how I would have coped without a sandwich in left hand, mobile in right and knees steering at 90mph on motorway to get to an important meeting with 10 minutes to gain on the sat nav.

I doubt my company has gone alone. Other major employers like retailers will follow, if not precede.

DET just explained it better than I was going to.

Wrt your 3 points, John, you don't have to answer a phone just because it rings.

If you are listening to the radio, you can ignore it.

If you are talking on the phone to someone, your concentration is split, whilst you are listening and replying to the person on the other end.

In an ideal world, the use by the driver of mobile phones should be banned, but that's not going to happen. Too many people need to use them in the course of their jobs while they are on the move. Its not always possible to pull over to return a call.

Shirley, she usually phones me on those long journeys when she is a passenger in her husband's car. THis time she was driving and she was yacking away when zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Whne she phone back it had been a dip in the A1, but a bit worrying. My last 3 points was answering a colleague who phoned me whilst I was driving - just as a policeman was about to stop me in one of those infernal police money traps. :-( :-( :-(

Well our Ford Fiesta has hands free . You program the phone nos in and when someone rings you can answer just by replying,no need to click on any buttons .BUT if the phone did ring I would answer and let hubby still drive without the distraction.

Now he has stopped driving and i am in the driving seat it may be more of a distraction if OH cant sort it out.

My employer has banned all vehicle drivers from using their phones whilst driving, using hands free kits.

My daughter just phoned me driving back to Northants from Durham. She was on hands free and I said I would rather wait till she got home safely. She told me that it was no different to listening to music.

What do you think?