Think most of euroland if you are caught wearing headphones or even a Bluetooth earpiece you can expected to be tugged and a fine
Ah the good old one size fits all answer to anything and everything in the new H&S utopia, because some half wit can’t drive for toffee unless giving it 14000% individual attention…eyes bulging gripping the wheel as if its the only thing stopping them falling off a cliff…no one else is allowed to.
Wearing headphones whilst driving…Professional Driver…the two dont mix!
We need an app that turns an iphone into a brick once you turn the key in a truck.No calls in any vehicle while driving imo
I was in morrisons last week,the tannoy announced that until the passenger in the car at pump number 7 ends his call ,no petrol will be delivered .Phones
Do not mix with everything .
People who are deaf can legally drive a car. You rely on sight more then hearing.
I use Phillips headphones which double up as Bluetooth headset for my phone. They are big things and I use them often while driving. Don’t see the harm in it.
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I have a solution to the problem.
How about this. You drive the truck and ignore the phone. Then when you stop at your drop or for a break etc, you check your phone.
Not sure it will ever catch on though 
they should ban sat navs as well as phones I can not understand how sat navs seem to be exempt as it takes the drivers eyes and concentration off the road a lot more than a voice on a phone would
Not when it’s mounted in your windscreen. Changing a CD or even adjusting the cab temperature can take your eye away from the windscreen. So by your reckoning Pete anything in a truck is a distraction.
Sometimes if I take a corner too fast my phone goes sliding off into the passenger footwell, or worse, down between the footwell and the door.
No problem - I wait until there’s nobody about, unbelt myself, scuttle over into the footwell (while holding her steady with my right hand), grab my phone and continue Youtubing.
Interested in the legalities of this?
Javiatrix:
Sometimes if I take a corner too fast my phone goes sliding off into the passenger footwell, or worse, down between the footwell and the door.No problem - I wait until there’s nobody about, unbelt myself, scuttle over into the footwell (while holding her steady with my right hand), grab my phone and continue Youtubing.
Interested in the legalities of this?
simple don’t use your phone and don’t use a sat nav that way you can get on with the job your being paid for ie getting goods safely from a to b
Juddian:
Ah the good old one size fits all answer to anything and everything in the new H&S utopia, because some half wit can’t drive for toffee unless giving it 14000% individual attention…eyes bulging gripping the wheel as if its the only thing stopping them falling off a cliff…no one else is allowed to.
I take it you are one of these arrogant types that think you are capable of more and are so much better than others.
Trouble is pal 90% of drivers think like you and about 90% are not capable. I take it you are more than capable of speaking on a phone whilst driving as well just like the ones that have mowed innocent people down.
Hearing is a very important factor when driving and it is essential you are alert 100% of the time when driving because one slip up can be fatal.
Try reading the link I posted earlier and maybe you will learn something but then again you sound like you know it all already. 
Are you suggesting that deaf people should have their licences revoked?
the maoster:
Are you suggesting that deaf people should have their licences revoked?
WHAT■■?.. 
Can’t hear ■■■■ all on a motorbike…especially when wearing earplugs.
dieseldog999:
the maoster:
Are you suggesting that deaf people should have their licences revoked?WHAT■■?..
Uncle Albie states that hearing is a very important factor to driving, so I was asking if he thought that deaf people should have their licences revoked. Obviously daft ones don’t at the moment.
the maoster:
Are you suggesting that deaf people should have their licences revoked?
I’d like to think that deaf drivers would have their hearing aids on when they took the wheel.
Another thought, what about coming across a fire, police or ambulance vehicle on a callout with the sirens going?
How would you hear them with your ears covered ? In my experience, you usually hear them before you see them if they’re approaching a road junction from the side or coming up behind hidden from view perhaps. 
WHY DO YOU YOUNG PEOPLE FEEL THE NEED TO BE ‘IN CONTACT’ ALL THE BLOODY TIME ?
It’s bad enough with tracking devices, etc. 
When I started driving lorries in the early seventies the main attraction of the job was being left alone to do the job you were being paid for, using your own skills, judgement, initiative, common sense, and then increasingly over the years - experience.
Rant over…carry on 
Deesider:
the maoster:
Are you suggesting that deaf people should have their licences revoked?
I’d like to think that deaf drivers would have their hearing aids on when they took the wheel
:
quote of the year!
We once did have a deaf driver but had to get rid of him, as health and safety issue.
Was on the boxes, and the docks couldn’t send anybody with him with a sign if a container fell out the crane.
Uncle Albie:
Juddian:
Ah the good old one size fits all answer to anything and everything in the new H&S utopia, because some half wit can’t drive for toffee unless giving it 14000% individual attention…eyes bulging gripping the wheel as if its the only thing stopping them falling off a cliff…no one else is allowed to.I take it you are one of these arrogant types that think you are capable of more and are so much better than others.
Trouble is pal 90% of drivers think like you and about 90% are not capable. I take it you are more than capable of speaking on a phone whilst driving as well just like the ones that have mowed innocent people down.
Hearing is a very important factor when driving and it is essential you are alert 100% of the time when driving because one slip up can be fatal.
Try reading the link I posted earlier and maybe you will learn something but then again you sound like you know it all already.
Good Lord no i’m just another numpty who passed the test but a short while ago, i bow to the superior knowledge and expertise of true professional commercial drivers, like yourself, who concentrate absolutely on displaying perfect IAM roadcraft at all times to show us plebs how it should be done, pal.
Thought you were a clown? Now all of a sudden you are a numpty?
So does this make you a clumpty?