worlds gone nuts any plod who wants to be that pathetic and do someone on phone whilst parked up engine running or not, needs to get a life or a women 
This is something 1000s of us have done and yes maybe take for granted but its safe thats why we park up instead of answering a call whilst doing 70mph down the motorway, would you rather I did that Mr Plod ?
Badges thats all its about another merit for Mr Plod to joke about in the boys shower room at the Nick
It’s all rubbish anyway. Some people are quite capable of holding a phone and driving, whereas some people are just not capable of driving if their simple routine is wrecked by anything that needs a little bit of though. How many of us know people who can only drive on roads and routes they know and can’t go out if it may get dark as they can’t drive at night etc. So they make a law that if based around the worst case drivers and everyone is tarred with the same brush. The whole purpose of this law is because some people would have an accident if they had to concentrate on two things at once and then still manage to nick you if you couldn’t possibly have an accident because you are not moving. Absolutely mad.
At the time of introducing this law, they specifically excluded radios with ptt so you are OK to drive and wrap a mike cable round the steering wheel…
Nothing but a money earner alongside the ‘speed kills’ propaganda.
DoYouMeanMe?:
It’s all rubbish anyway. Some people are quite capable of holding a phone and driving, whereas some people are just not capable of driving if their simple routine is wrecked by anything that needs a little bit of though. How many of us know people who can only drive on roads and routes they know and can’t go out if it may get dark as they can’t drive at night etc. So they make a law that if based around the worst case drivers and everyone is tarred with the same brush. The whole purpose of this law is because some people would have an accident if they had to concentrate on two things at once and then still manage to nick you if you couldn’t possibly have an accident because you are not moving. Absolutely mad.
At the time of introducing this law, they specifically excluded radios with ptt so you are OK to drive and wrap a mike cable round the steering wheel…
Nothing but a money earner alongside the ‘speed kills’ propaganda.
Totally agree, just like the Kit Kat and apple eaters who were prosecuted, it should be part of the driving test to be able to unscrew a 2 litre coke bottle, open a Ginsters sandwich or pastie and light a ■■■ without crossing any white lines 
You can smoke while you drive a car while you carry your own kids, but are prevented from doing so in a lorry that is your home. 
Recently had sent to our England address a notice of prosecution for the driver of car registered ***** for using a phone whilst driving , in the photo the person in the right hand seat is certainly using a phone (my wife ),one problem for them is my car bought in France is left hand drive ,UK registered.
DoYouMeanMe?:
So the British law defines driving as one thing for tacho readings, another for drink driving and yet another for mobile phone use.
Nice to know that they have a solid set of rules that change to suit the weather…
Isnt the drink driving procecution actually drunk in charge, or something along them lines. never been down that route so i’m only going by 3rd hand. I think Coffeholic has a viable point with the mobile phone interpretation of driving, as against the EU drivers hours inrepretation, as long as you dont commence your conversation until the tacho has started to record a mode other than driving, i would wager that a decent brief would be able to argue that successfully. and the mobile phone law fines are haevier for vocational drivers, or can be, so it could be argued that the quallifacation maybe slightly differrent.
dont know if this has ever been mentioned before, but if you hold a vocational licence and get stopped whilst using your mobile in your private car, the law can be applied as if you were driving a truck or bus, ie- heavier sanction, and notification to the TC, read that in Wheels a while back.
I reckon there is more to the story…
I’m a london bus driver, and we are told get out of the cab if we want to use the phone, even whilst parked.
rambo19:
I reckon there is more to the story…
I’m a london bus driver, and we are told get out of the cab if we want to use the phone, even whilst parked.
Booooooooooooo, hissssssssssssssss… 
Mobiles maybe should be turned off whilst inside a vehicle, some kind of jamming device perhaps
I was parked in a lay-by on the A55 yesterday morning taking my break on the way to Holyhead and I had just finished it and was getting ready to pull away, engine was running and my seatbelt was on but I hadn’t released the park brake and the tacho was on Other Work, when a Police car pulled into the lay-by and stopped a little ahead of me. Two coppers got out and started to walk back toward me, obviously going to the snack van, and with this thread in mind I picked up my phone and pretended to make a call as I wanted to see if they would try to nick me for it. They didn’t bother with me at all, one of them did nod a sort of hello in my direction which I returned but that was it.
LET THEM HAVE IT NEIL!!!
44 Tonne Ton:
LET THEM HAVE IT NEIL!!!
They wouldn’t play. 
I was in the mood for a good argument yesterday. 
