Purpose

Your Business, LLC is committed to protecting its drivers, passengers and everyone else on the road. This policy sets the rules for phones and other distractions, seat belts, speed, fatigue and impairment, and explains how Your Business, LLC uses in-vehicle technology to help drivers improve.

No trip, call, message or schedule is more important than driving safely. Your Business, LLC will never ask a driver to break this policy to save time, and no driver will be disciplined for pulling over to handle a call or message safely.

Scope and Definitions

This policy applies to all employees, volunteers and contractors of Your Business, LLC while they drive on Your Business, LLC business, in any vehicle, and to anyone driving a Your Business, LLC vehicle at any time.

In this policy:

• Driving means operating a vehicle on a road, including while temporarily stopped in traffic, at a light or stop sign, or for other delays. It does not include being lawfully parked in a safe place, off the travel lanes, with the vehicle in park.
• Hand-held use means holding a phone or device, dialing or typing on it, reaching for it in a way that takes the driver out of a normal seated, belted position, or pressing more than a single button to start or end a call.
• Hands-free use means using a device mounted in the vehicle or through the vehicle's own system, by voice or a single touch, without holding it.
• Texting means reading, writing or sending any message, email, chat or post, or browsing, on any device.
• Telematics means in-vehicle systems that record location, speed, braking, acceleration, seat belt use and similar data, including video event recorders.

Phones and Other Distractions

Drivers may not use a phone or any mobile device in any way while driving, including hands-free calls. Before using a phone, the driver must pull over to a safe, legal place and put the vehicle in park. Drivers should set their phones to a driving mode that silences calls and messages, and should let callers know they will call back when stopped.

Texting, emailing, browsing, using apps, watching video and taking photos or video are never allowed while driving. Drivers may use a mounted GPS or navigation device only if the route is set before the vehicle moves; any change must wait until the vehicle is parked. A driver may use a phone while driving only to contact police, fire or emergency medical services in an emergency, and only when it is not safe to stop first.

For drivers of commercial motor vehicles, federal rules prohibit texting and hand-held mobile telephone use while driving, and prohibit Your Business, LLC from allowing or requiring it (49 CFR 392.80 and 392.82). Violations can lead to fines for both the driver and Your Business, LLC and to disqualification of the driver's commercial driver's license after repeat convictions.

While driving, drivers must not:

• Eat, or drink anything other than water in a covered container.
• Groom, apply makeup or shave.
• Read maps, manifests, paperwork or notes.
• Wear headphones or earbuds in both ears.
• Reach for objects on the floor, in the back seat or out of easy reach.

Drivers must follow the phone laws of every state and city they drive in. Where the law is stricter than this policy, the law applies.