In-Cab Technology

Um most companies just put a Qualcomm in the truck the rest is on you.

 

My step mom works for a small outfit out of northern Utah that gives all the drivers smartphones and they scan all their paperwork off of that and email it in. They just barely got the system this month so well see how it goes

 

our company uses an iphone to sending bol's.

i used to fax back but since i'm out and back. i don't even bother anymore.

 

I think as more and more technology is proven you will see more places using it. I was in one of the first Roehl trainer trucks that went elog.. I think I taught my trainer more about it than he trained me, and we both attended the same class in Marshfield.

 

I believe the on my step moms company uses runs off of a blackberry if I'm not mistaken. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the program

 

I would guess we are still in the very very infant stages of in cab tech. Over the years more and more will be adopted but i can recall the very first Qual comm units and Cell phones and they were not all that long ago really but seems like forever. Heck just GPS is from only the Gulf War. It all seems common now . I will never forget having to find a payphone when directions had gone wrong in the middle of some massive city with no parking and no volume on the phone lol.

We've come a long way.

 

Personally I think this is the way to go in regards to scanning on BOL's, DO's, and other important paper docs, Saves trees too. if organized properly you'll have proof of the whole process down the road which keeps you out of hot water.