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Living and Driving on Post...

By The Armorer on December 7, 2005 | | Comments (9)

For those of you who operate *any* vehicles on DoD installations... FYI. From the Leavenworth PMO:

6. NEW DOD CELL PHONE POLICY IS INSTITUTED. Beginning 1 May 2003, cell phone use in a government vehicle at any time, on post or off post, or in a private vehicle while conducting government business or driving on post, is restricted to a "Hands Off" policy. You must both pull over and put your vehicle in park to use your cell phone, or use a no-hands device of some type to use your cell phone while driving. In other words, your hands must be on the steering wheel at all times while using a cell phone. DOD police will start enforcing this policy, which is consistent with GSA regulations and most DOD installations, on 1 May...so be prepared!

Note the *date*... 2003. What came out in email today was a WARNO of *enforcement*. Sometimes if takes a while for the message to get to the tail of the dinosaur from the head... Snerk!

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By jim b on December 7, 2005 12:34 PM
Just as it should be. I never talk on my cellphone while driving. That's what women are for, I hand it to her. I am just glad they didn't outlaw writing snail mail letters while driving. That would really hurt.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 7, 2005 12:42 PM
Don't forget novel reading!
 
By KCSteve on December 7, 2005 1:00 PM
Well, at least I can still drink my coffee and eat my breakfast sandwich while driving - as long as I'm not talking on a cellphone.
 
By Bad Cat Robot on December 7, 2005 2:02 PM
what's the policy on driving one handed whilst waving a bloody stump out the window at the nice policeman? snerksnerksnerk ....
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 7, 2005 2:22 PM
That incident isn't covered, having occurred off-post... Had it occurred on-post, the victim would probably have been pulled over and required to fill out DA Form 285-AB-R (Jul 94), the U.S. ARMY ABBREVIATED GROUND ACCIDENT REPORT (AGAR). For use of that form, see AR 385-40 and DA Pamphlet 385-40, the proponent agency is OCSA. Bill can provide the particulars should the bloody stump have occurred in-flight, yet first brought to Official Attention while in Ground Transit.
 
By Bad Cat Robot on December 7, 2005 2:35 PM
Huh. I would have thought you would have to report Contact with a Hostile Package at the very least, but maybe they changed the protocols ...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on December 7, 2005 3:23 PM
If the bloody stump had visible remnants of a bleedin' cell phone attached, the nice policeman would've issued you a blarsted summons, now--woon't he?
 
By NOTR on December 8, 2005 6:14 PM
Recently a Cellphone Slash sign has gone up on post here on the road to each gate. The gendarmes here tell me that they are going write a ticket for "no hands" cell phone use too. Not sure if that is a local implementation.
 
By John of Argghhh! on December 8, 2005 6:19 PM
*That* one will be a much harder to implement order. Well, you *can* make a reg more stringent locally, not less.