Professional car transport service drivers talking on a hands-free cell phone while running down the roads and highways of the United States believing that this activity doesn't significantly affect the possibility of their involvement in a accident have the support of a recent study. The study being cited in this case was just released by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute in conjunction with the driver monitoring experts at DriveCam Incorporated. A study designed to measure just how distracted a driver talking on a hands-free cell phone is while running down the roads and highways of the United States of America taking customers vehicles to destination in a reliable, efficient and cost-effective manner.
The study conducted by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute collected data from over 13,000 transport vehicles and included a total of 1,085 accidents, 8,375 near crashes, 30,661 crash-relevant conflicts and 211, 711 instances of normal driving as a comparison. According to the professionals that conducted this study, the results are consistent with another United States Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration study conducted by the VTTI, revealing that professionals that ship cars are more likely to follow companies directives about using hands-free cell phones, than they're federal and state laws concerning the use of these devices while conducting transport services out on the roads and highways of the United States of America.
This probably isn't a surprise to car haulers out on the roads and highways of the United States that use a hands-free cell phone in order to help them keep customers cars flowing to destination on time and budget. The real question will be what this study and its consistency with the study conducted by the FMCSA is going to mean for transport professionals using a hand-free cell phone to help them in the future?
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