Are Satellite Radio Common In Company Trucks Now?

Man, i have felt that pain. Northern Wi, up by the big lake is no different. US Cellular wopped me with a $125 twelve minute phone call that somehow connected to a tower 200 miles to the west near the twin cities in the 90's.

Thats another positive aspect of satellite radio over cell based. Cell will always be spotty where there is no traffic or sparsely populated areas.

 

By the same token I have phone service going through the mountains whereas my satellite radio cuts out from mountains blocking signals ..

 

I guess it’s what you listen to?
The channels I listen too are usually live streams or the music is country.
Willie’s and the Dwight Yoakum channels have a couple of programs that repeat twice a day but that’s it.
And with the app there is a lot more music options.

 

My issue with Pandora is that, no matter what artist you start out listening to, within about an hour they'll have you listening to "Stairway to Heaven" or "Freebird"........never fails!

You mean that processed-robot sob-sister who used to pretend to take calls between the music? Listen long enough and you'll realize that it's on a loop; a really LONG loop, but repeated nonetheless. I have no doubts that it's just the same bits from 20 years ago on that show.....

 

If I subscribe to the phone app Platinum package can I listen to every channel on Sirius XM. I think the web site says I can hear all 450+ channels and the monthly cost of $10. I understand the phone app gets all data through wi-fi and or cell network. I'm thinking of using it as a primary means of info in an off-grid cabin using Starlink.

 

Being on the satellite end when I first discovered that receiving sat signals and sending from Big Rigs, I don't think xm or sirius was a thing yet. I was told it was for tracking the Trucks and Trailers. I was told by ? exactly who I don't remember , but that they knew through satellite exactly where every truck was and how fast it was going. Basically every move it made. Thinking about it now, it would have been a decent size outfit ( probably not a mega). I had forgotten this conversation until just now reading this thread. Anyone else hear of this? It could be regular old news for all I know.
I don't know but QuallComm comes to mind. But they are not into it now if it was them.

 

The satellite tracking of trucks back in the mid to late 80s. Either Schneider or JB Hunt was the first fleet, and I'm pretty sure Qualcomm was the original provider, but it could have been a company that Qualcomm later acquired.

 

Qualcomm and Hughes.
In 1997 the company I drove for got the system. It was just text messages on pre canned forms. Tracking was sorta close but not real accurate.
I was told you got what you paid for.

 

Yeah, CFI used to say that they knew exactly where you're at and how fast you were running. Whenever I had to call in dispatch would ask me where I was at and usually if I was in New Jersey I would say I dunno, think I'm in China because the sign says San Francisco wharf, but there's a bunch of Chinese people walking around here! Just to make dispatch do their job... LoL