The new
Unsafe Driving fact sheet explains that commercial drivers and fleet
operators must abide by FMCSR 392 — the newly-amended federal regulation which
specifically prohibits drivers from using hand-held mobile phones and forbids
their employers from requiring them to do so.
Employers caught
violating the ban, either by requiring employees to use hand-held phones or by
failing to ensure that they don’t, not only carries a fine of up to $11,000 –
but it could also negatively impact the Safety Measurement System (SMS) score a
carrier receives from CSA.
According to the new fact sheet, violations will
stay on carriers’ records for at least 24 months – and only “time and
clean inspections” will erase the damage done by a cell phone ban violation.
So getting
caught in violation could be a painful double-whammy – first a hit to your
bottom line, followed by a hit to your safety score.
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