Computers and Internet connection for choice board.

What browser are you using?? I have Safari and Mercury on mine, and although I can bring up the load board in both browsers, it won't scroll, so you only see the first couple loads on any search. Would very much like to know what you're using.

 

I use a couple year old Sony Vaio with a Verizon Jet Pack from Millenicom. 20gb of data a month for 89.99 (their price just went up) On my laptop I run windows 7 and always the Google Chrome browser. No issues at all and I have a internet connection everywhere I go. I suspect that your laptop will be just fine and no need to upgrade it unless you just want to. The internet connection is the most important thing.

 

I'll be using a 6 year old lenovo thinkpad R61(pretty much the same as a T61) 4gb's of ram, Windows 7 pro and a 160 gb ssd. Use Firefox and chrome. Been a tank so I see no need to upgrade.

 

Ok, cancel what I said before, I was mistaken.

Normally on my iPad I use Mercury browser for most sites, and Chrome for sites that Mercury won't handle. I never use Safari, never cared for it. Ironically, Safari appears to work with the load board properly. You have to be careful and don't get too touchy so you don't accidentally assign anything you don't want to yourself, but it definitely does work.

 

I'm running a laptop w/ win 8 in addition to a Samsung 12" tablet as a backup. The trick for the android browsers, to include Chrome and Firefox, when viewing the load board is to resize the browser window. That enables the scroll function. Only a pixel or so resize is all it takes. Don't know the why but it works....

 

When I first started as IC had an older Toshiba Satelite with Verizon hotspot modem 3g/4g LTE. Worked out just fine. Broke my older PC so now have a new Toshiba Satelite with windows 8. Not a fan of windows 8 but getting use to it. Windows 7 is probably going be obsolete soon. Microsoft is terminating there tech support service for windows 7. Not sure if that is going to affect anything or not. Need to upgrade eventually, I figure. The Verison service is one of the best IMO. However, Verison pissed me off with their cost and service plans changing but internet speed and signal works good so whatever, getting over it!. I seldom go without a signal for my hotspot. The new PC is working good too with the load board.

 

Man, i love this jet pack.. My sprint air card took a dump a couple of days ago. I've been using the truck stop internet service to book loads. Its like night and day using this jet pack. I should have left sprint a long time ago. Been with them for 10 years, when i get home im going to move my wife phone over to verizon. My contract is up next april and i will be moving over to verizon.

 

Yep vzw is nice little pricey but worth it for coverage.

 

What good is a unlimited plan when you can't get service. I heard sprint is thinking about merging with Tmobile.