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[crazyjoetavola]

I agree with the law on phones …..but you have to laff don’t you.....isnt  using a police radio dangerous too whilst your driving ultimately  whener your having a conversation with a mike in your hand ….a phone in your hand ..,,,or concentrating on a “code blue”….from the station I would imagine that’s pretty dangerous too ….i find the police very hypercritical  talk about people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones  person 4 person the police have more accidents than anyone else

Hey Ho, tin of worms time....

Police radio's are treated the same as Taxi radio's or those used by council vehicles etc.  Exempt, but the laws on careless driving etc still apply, so flawed logic, I'm afraid.  A 'radio' is not a 'mobile phone' ....

Police more accidents than anyone else?  Whats your stats comparison?  Joe Public en masse?  Taxi Drivers?  Folks in white cars?  Again, flawed logic and stats, IMHO, unless you care to expand??....   :-/

So if  i am at the lights then using a cb radio talking to me truckin buddies and the police pull along side thats ok is it ??

Cant be arsed to dig too deep on your behalf, but heres the gist of what I currently understand.  If you want to find more, feel free to dig away...   

It is an offence to use a hand held mobile phone or an "interactive communications device", but there is an exemption for a two way radio which is designed or adapted -

(i) for the purpose of transmitting and receiving spoken messages; and
(ii) operates on any frequency other than 880 MHz to 915 MHz, 925 MHz to 960 MHz, 1710 MHz to 1785 MHz, 1805 MHz to 1880 MHz, 1900 MHz to 1980 MHz or 2110 MHz to 2170 MHz.

Ofcom states that you should be transmitting CB in the 27MHz range, if you are, you come within the exception and are OK. The exception was created because so many government and private organisations (e.g. taxis) use 2 way radios.

However, there is strong scientific evidence that any such activity (including fiddling with your CD player etc.) does raise the level of danger so far as accidents are concerned, so it is recommended that you do whatever you can to minimise use of transmitter buttons, tuning devices and volume controls. If something akin to hands free exists it would be a good idea.

Cheers thanks ......i rest my case
there are good cops & bad cops just like good builders & cowboy builders we are all only human was not a personal atack on you ...its strange though how its ok to use a cb and hold a mike but you cant hold a phone so basically it depends what frequency its on

The internet is a font of knowledge, if you care to look.

Like you, I have good days and bad days.  Today, you catch me on a bad day.  Tough....   

Tomorrow, you may have got a chapter and verse with step by step explanation as well as chocolate biscuits and a glass of milk half way through to aid concentration.  Today, unfortunately, thats not happening.... 

Not a personal attack on you either, mon ami.  Just venting forth in a similar style to your good self....   

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[CaptainZok]

as well as chocolate biscuits and a glass of milk half way through to aid concentration.

Who said choccie bics? When? Where? I **WILL** be there

You prefer the Mrs M_DTM individually wrapped or the mass marketed chocolate digestives???

That's like asking if he prefer's two fivers or a tenner isn't it?

[HolyCount]

Ta for that link djm ... often thought about these but was a bit dubious about the quality ... at the mo have a cark kit with my old nokia stuck in it, but fancy an upgrade 

As for the oddities of being ok to use a mic ( subject to freqeuncy    ) as opposed to a phone -- the law is full of absurdities and its best to try to live with them than suffer apoplexy trying to understand them !!!!!  Neither should be used -- except in emergency vehicles, where they are used of nessecity (sp).

Finally -- if it is true that a higher percentage of accidents are caused in or by police vehicles, that is arrived at by manipulation of statistics ---- if you look at the percentage of pedestrians hit by cars, you will find a frighteningly high percentage come a cropper on pedestrian crossings !!!!  Does this make pedestrian crossings more dangerous than the rest of the road ?? No! It's just that more pedestrians use them !!!.

There's lies, damn lies and then, statistics 

[richy08]

i think i hit a nerve here but i think they THE COPPERS should have better things to do than keep me at the side of the road telling me wot i did wrong when i no wot i did wrong for 40 mins. when they should be out catching kiddie fiddlers drug dealers and the rest that my opinion not that i no much 

[Jimbob]

Statistics prove anything....

lie with your head in the oven, and feet in the fridge.....

on average you will be comfortable 

[TheBoy]

as well as chocolate biscuits and a glass of milk half way through to aid concentration.

Who said choccie bics? When? Where? I **WILL** be there

You prefer the Mrs M_DTM individually wrapped or the mass marketed chocolate digestives???

Mrs DTM choccie biscuit selection has gone downhill - it used to be neatly arranged on a china plate.  Now its a case of the packet thrown out at me

[HolyCount]

i think i hit a nerve here but i think they THE COPPERS should have better things to do than keep me at the side of the road telling me wot i did wrong when i no wot i did wrong for 40 mins. when they should be out catching kiddie fiddlers drug dealers and the rest that my opinion not that i no much 

I am sure they agree 

[hotel21]

i think i hit a nerve here but i think they THE COPPERS should have better things to do than keep me at the side of the road telling me wot i did wrong when i no wot i did wrong for 40 mins. when they should be out catching kiddie fiddlers drug dealers and the rest that my opinion not that i no much 

If you know what you did wrong then why do it and thus waste everybody's time??   :-/

[TheBoy]

As for the oddities of being ok to use a mic ( subject to freqeuncy    ) as opposed to a phone

As said earlier, I support it.

Before the current law, we had ever tit who could barely drive 2 handed trying to manuovere around a roundabout with on hand on his ear and the other on the gearstick, and the best they could get nicked with is a careless driving.  Driving 1 handed, you are not in full control of the car.

[richy08]

are u telling me u never done anything wrong mate its not right but we all do it at some stage nobodys perfect

[TheBoy]

i think i hit a nerve here but i think they THE COPPERS should have better things to do than keep me at the side of the road telling me wot i did wrong when i no wot i did wrong for 40 mins. when they should be out catching kiddie fiddlers drug dealers and the rest that my opinion not that i no much 

ANd not stop someone who is very likely to have an accident?  :-/

[hotel21]

are u telling me u never done anything wrong mate its not right but we all do it at some stage nobodys perfect

I'm far from perfect but, if I do summat wrong, I like to think that I will hold up my hands and take the row rather than try and slouch off and try to explain it away to buddies elsewhere, if you follow...   

[Vamps]

As for the oddities of being ok to use a mic ( subject to freqeuncy    ) as opposed to a phone

As said earlier, I support it.

Before the current law, we had ever tit who could barely drive 2 handed trying to manuovere around a roundabout with on hand on his ear and the other on the gearstick, and the best they could get nicked with is a careless driving.  Driving 1 handed, you are not in full control of the car.

To be honest TB I see this several times a day, I have noticed no obvious reduction............
And another thing, the times I see several young children in the back of a car without seat belts beggars belief, yesterday one such child was dangling out of the window.....

[richy08]

look there was not a crash or anything like that my points are gone but i still driving got three more wont happen againnot that i bothered wot u think tb u had ur say its wrong ya people make mistakes get over it

[HolyCount]

Bottom line Richy is that you had a mighty close shave, points wise, have learnt from it and will be careful from now on -- try to hang on to that licence, mate