A study of professional truckers indicates that even pros are severely handicapped while text messaging behind the wheel. The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute's study found that the truckers were 23 times more likely to get in a wreck while texting. The researchers placed video cameras in the cabs of long-haul trucks over a year and a half period. About 100 truck drivers participated. In the collisions recorded by the cameras, drivers typically looked at their text messaging devices for five seconds before the accident, the New York Times said in reporting on the Virginia Tech texting … [Read more...]