Since I have been away from trucking for a long time, I'm curious about the current state of the qualcomms. Last time I used one, they were just coming out with the ability to use it for emails. Do they have any kind of function now where you can remotely access your messages for a scenario like what happened to you? I remember it was the worst to be tied down by that thing when you could be out enjoying other stuff.
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Try to get to aldi about an hour early, I was there a while back and they were backed out on the street after I checked in. They unloaded me,
. you gotta love Syracuse, it's a great place in spite of the sports fans.
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Ralph, I have yet to see a QC used for private email or any other kind of email. Messages to and from the company has been it.
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OK thanks. I think I am way behind the times. In the years since I was last in trucking, it looks like the qcomm has totally changed and advanced.
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Also...got to Aldi about an hour early. Full truckload unloaded for $60...gone by about 0745. Now in Brookville, PA, headed to OH. -
There use to be a way to send and receive messages like a phone's sms messages. It was called cab-card. I used it for a while but text messages and e-mail access on your phone has progressed to the point that I'm not sure how to do it. There is a canned message for it on our mcp200 cell-qualcomms but I don't know who still uses it. The mcp200's do have access to the internet. Every once in a while I see the wifi icon lit up. But it is so sluggish, it is a pain to use.
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Smart phones do it all now. So does crete let you take a picture/scan of the signed bills with your smartphone and email them from the road to get paid?
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I conversed via email with the guy who runs that side of imaging for Crete, because I was having such a bad time of getting readable pictures of bills of lading from certain customers *cough*Procter & Gamble*cough*. Since I wanted to scan more than just Crete paperwork, and my laptop runs Linux (and thus can't run Transflo Now!), and since I have a printer/scanner that I got for $70 from Office Depot, I now scan my documents using my flatbed scanner, combine the pages using GhostScript, and email them to Crete. I do the same for receipts to my accountant, and for sending copies of repair receipts to the lady who handles my maintenance escrow. Pretty soon I'll stop saving my paper log books for the IRS, since I have a scanned image of each log page. For tax year 2013 and later, if I get audited, I can just hand them a CD of PDF files and say "have at it" -
I had the Transflow Now on my computer as well, but since I got my smartphone, I almost never turn it on. So I was paying $59/mo for an aircard I seldom used, so when the contract came due, I just dropped it. Since I'm on Verizon, it cost extra to tether my phone to my laptop, plus it limits the data plan on the phone if you tether...so I don't even do that. If I have a late delivery that needs scanned, I just carry the miles over and scan it the next day instead. And since I'm e-logging I just download each month's logs to a dedicated flash drive when I'm home... In fact, I left the ole' laptop at home this month. No use carrying it around if I don't use it...just 1 less thing to ship home if they whiz me off and I deliver the truck to the nearest terminal and fly home.Last edited: Jun 19, 2012
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