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Drilling Deep: Cutting off cellphone use while driving

A company tries to fight distracted driving by reducing the abilty to drive a truck and use a cell phone at the same time.

NoCell is a relatively new company that is trying to improve driver safety by doing something fairly radical: cutting off a driver’s ability to use a lot of cellphone functions while on the road. Corey Woinarowicz of NoCell sits down with host John Kingston to discuss this simple technology and why it’s controversial.

Also on the podcast, Kingston reviews this week’s latest inventory report and what that means for the tight squeeze in diesel on the East Coast.

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The NoCell goal: Ending distracted driving by automatically shutting down the phone

A cellphone might today be considered a person’s most prized and necessary possession, particularly on the road. A two-year-old company called NoCell is rolling out a product that shuts down a lot of its use when it’s in the cab of a truck.

The California-based startup company had a booth at the recently-concluded Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting at which it talked about its product, a round cylinder about an inch thick and a few inches in diameter that has a fearsome power: the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-nocell-goal-ending-distracted-driving-by-automatically-shutting-down-the-phone