{"id":156752,"date":"2012-01-13T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=156752"},"modified":"2012-01-14T16:50:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T22:50:50","slug":"berman-seeks-to-let-commercial-driver-license-holders-take-defensive-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=156752","title":{"rendered":"Berman Seeks to Let Commercial License Holders Take Defensive Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=156774\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-156774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/thumb_leo-berman-150x104.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_leo-berman\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-156774\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; If re-elected, State Representative Leo Berman (R-Tyler) plans to file a bill in the next legislative session which will allow individuals who hold a commercial driver license (CDL) to take defensive driving, if ticketed while driving their own privately-owned vehicle (unless it is a commercial vehicle).    Berman said, &#8220;We hold truck drivers to a higher standard, but if they receive a traffic citation while driving their own automobile and not a commercial vehicle, they should be allowed to take defensive driving like every other driver license holder.&#8221;  The citation asks if the individual was driving a commercial or privately-owned vehicle.  Representative Berman added that the change was suggested to him by a law enforcement officer.   Berman faces Matt Schaefer in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; If re-elected, State Representative Leo Berman (R-Tyler) plans to file a bill in the next legislative session which will allow individuals who hold a commercial driver license (CDL) to take defensive driving, if ticketed while driving their own privately-owned vehicle (unless it is a commercial vehicle). Berman said, &#8220;We hold truck drivers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=156752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berman Seeks to Let Commercial License Holders Take Defensive Driving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 14:08:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156752"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156970,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156752\/revisions\/156970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}