{"id":2926,"date":"2010-02-05T04:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2010-02-05T04:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T21:36:22","slug":"horse-haulers-urged-to-follow-commercial-driver-texting-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-haulers-urged-to-follow-commercial-driver-texting-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"HORSE HAULERS URGED TO FOLLOW COMMERCIAL DRIVER TEXTING BAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The U.S. Department of Transportation on Jan. 26 issued a nationwide ban on texting by drivers of commercial vehicles such as large trucks and buses. &#8220;We want the drivers of big rigs and buses and those who share the roads with them to be safe,&#8221; said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. &#8220;This is an important safety step and we will be taking more to eliminate the threat of distracted driving.&#8221; USRider, a national provider of roadside emergency assistance for equestrians, applauded the ban.<a href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-196dx3c2e7x18929&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Transportation on Jan. 26 issued a nationwide ban on texting by drivers of commercial vehicles such as large trucks and buses. &#8220;We want the drivers of big rigs and buses and those who share the roads with them to be safe,&#8221; said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. &#8220;This is an important safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,40,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}