Tag: laptops

Channel 19
Drivers Daily Log software a casualty of time, ELD mandate, hours changes
At the end of August, an old friend moves on -- the owner-operator-built hours-logging software, Drivers Daily Log, will no longer be an up-to-date option..
August 12, 2020
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Business
In search of a decent hair barrette
“Sometimes, finding regular things when you’re on the road is hard.” Wendy’s search for a barrette not “encrusted with enough cut glass geegaws to start a fire in the direct sunlight” continues…
December 16, 2015
“Mars called. They’d like to know how the buffet looks at the Skillet today.”
Business
How owner-operators connect: Mobile highlights devices, access points
Owner-operator smartphone users overwhelmingly access the Web daily, with more than 75 percent saying they access every day and more than 20 percent saying they’re constantly connected to the Web, according to Overdrive’s 2014 Connectivity Study.
May 6, 2014
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Business
Load by phone: How operators are using online tools
Owner-operators’ use of online load services varies from occasional use to test the waters in an unfamiliar area to use as a primary freight resource.
April 15, 2013
Owner-operator Cody Blankenship is among the 14 percent of owner-operators who view load boards primarily as avenues toward working more directly with trusted brokers and valuable shipper customers. Today, Blankenship keeps the reefer trailer behind his 2003 Kenworth W900B loaded via relationships he’s developed with hard-won experience, using boards only sparingly.
Business
Larry the Hobo is using my hot spot!
“George says Larry is a figment of my imagination, but I’m pretty sure I don’t shop for anti-fungal socks and beanie weenies online, unless I do it in my sleep, and, well, that’s another story….”
April 3, 2013
Channel 19
Loads on your phone: More board, broker apps
Details of three more smartphone apps — CHRW Trucks, BulkLoadsNow, and Fikes’ Logistics’ custom app — for finding freight in your pocket.
March 4, 2013
Click through this screenshot to download the BulkLoadsNow app for Android phones (you’ll need an account with the board for it to be of any utility, though you can sign up within the app); for the iPhone version, search “BulkLoadsNow” in the App Store.
Channel 19
Modest proposal: ‘Ban truck driving’
The comments on the news of the handheld cellphone ban while driving for the interstate pilots of the nation’s tractor-trailer rigs continue to come in. (Read them for yourself here, including among them at the very end a reaction by driver Wayne Leverton to witnessing a state patrol officer in Washington State use both hands […]
December 9, 2011
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