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Ode to those who make us laugh
“Here’s to the people who make us laugh when we’d rather cry, especially my sweet husband. Make someone laugh today — you never know who feels like the cat’s been sucking on their hair, and you may just keep a trucker from crying.”
February 22, 2017
Business
FourKites’ new load-tracking service for any cellphone
Real-time location information is fed into the FourKites platform to predict ETAs and provide delay alerts and arrival and departure times at stops using circular and polygon geo-fences.
March 14, 2016
Business
Who you talkin’ to?
Wendy gets a laugh out of cartoon showing what can happen when you mistake a bluetooth conversation to be directed at you, until she realized — “I’ve been the dummy thinking someone was having a conversation with me, and it wasn’t so funny anymore.”
May 20, 2015
Business
Fluent talk-to-text and autocorrect
“I think our son may be a cat burglar … Sometimes, technology makes life harder than it needs to be.”
March 9, 2015
Channel 19
Report: Air horns for four-wheeler safety?
More and more, drivers are taking the issue of four-wheeler distraction (chiefly by cellphones) into their own hands….
September 11, 2014
Voices
POLL: Do you use your truck’s horn to call out distracted drivers?
This poll follows reports of a growing tendency among drivers calling out unsafe behavior among motorists and other truckers on-highway, particularly cell phone use behind the wheel.
September 10, 2014
Business
The tanks have arms
And the frogs and dogs sing — and other strange happenings at the military installation.
March 2, 2014
Business
Drivewyze: Free weigh-station alert function for app
The PreClear weigh-station bypassing service is out in a new version, PreClear 3.0, which includes a feature available to app users without a subscription — a free nationwide weigh station and inspection site alert service.
January 30, 2014
Channel 19
Wonders of technology: Saving a life
Driver Tim Rutledge owes particular features — vibration, voice-dial — on his cell phone for his survival after being trapped under his rig in below-zero temps this past week.
January 11, 2014
Channel 19
Trucker Tools in the gray lady; Channel 19 getting quieter?
The decline of the CB via the profusion of trucking smartphone apps and the phones themselves gets treatment in the NY Times, and readers weight in on why Channel 19 gotten quieter lately…
August 19, 2013
Business
Understanding Granny on the road
“Being on the road is hard for everyone in the family, even those who don’t really know why you’re on the road.”
August 9, 2013
Channel 19
Plum phone deal for Verizon customers
The Droid Razr M is currently being offered by Verizon in a free-with-two-year-contract deal — I took advantage recently, and can attest the device has been a good one, at least thus far.
July 30, 2013
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