Internet availability

Wifi is growing in popularity but you can also get mobil internet service and be online all the time. It's like getting a cell phone plan for your laptop. Millenicom is a good service. I've never not been able to connect and it's unlimited for $60 a month. The wifi's at the truck stops will charge $5 or more a pop anyway.

I wouldn't know what to do without it. Well, I guess I'd have to open that atlas after all.

 

The WiFi at truckstops can be as little as $12 a month with yearly plans . If you have AT&T DSL at home you can get free Wifi at many businesses including McDonald's and Starbucks .

 

Especially since they are all limited to 5gb worth of bandwidth pr month. The trade off is that you aren't tied to a particular brand of truck stop or truckstop isp. You can park at a walmart or rest area or shipper/receiver and have internet at your fingertips. If you an O/O, with the ability to self dispatch, this can be quite valuable and worth the expense

 

Also, the wifi at truckstops is way more often than not very slow. I call it hi-speed false advertising.

 

That's not expensive at all. It's just like internet at home, but ANYWHERE and for about the same price as a good home connection.

The service I mentioned is truly unlimited. I use it for videoconferencing with the kids, youtube, uploading my vids, and of course weaning on the truckers report.

Truth told I'd pay twice that.

 

60 bucks or get so pissed you smash your screen out when the first truck in the lot drives by... i swear im not talkin from experancce

 

Nope... just internet. $20 a month sounds like dial-up prices, but you gotta be on promotion or something if it's true high-speed (or dsl-lite or similar). I paid $30 for 6 months on a bundle at home but it jumped up to $50.

It's only worth it if you're going to use it for all it's worth. I get all my directions from it, I can zoom in from satellite or street view to see my surroundings, roads, driveways etc, find NTTS, alt phone numbers for shippers/receivers and see the layout of the place oftentimes.

but like I said before the videoconferencing alone is worth it. Plus that $60 is actually what you pay, not an advertised $30 where you're paying $44 after taxes and fees when all is said and done.