Truck stop faxing

Discussion in 'Truck Stops' started by carrkool, Apr 17, 2013.

  1. carrkool

    carrkool Heavy Load Member

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    What is up with some of these truck stops these days. Their prices are highway robber. Isnt there laws to stop price gouging. I mean really I stopped at a TA a Flying J and a Pilot all wanted 2 dollars a page to fax out. Found another right across the road in LIMA OH that faxed for 1.00 a page....These Mega Truck stops are ripping off drivers and owner Ops off of their hard earned money. I am asking for everyone to take a few minutes a day and call the corporate offices and complain about their out of control pricing....
     
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  3. mcgoo422000

    mcgoo422000 Medium Load Member

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    You have wireless internet with you? If so use Smartfax.com they been ok for me for seven years.
    Just bought a new truck scanner printer the cannon one thats less than 40 dollars.
     
  4. KANSAS TRANSIT

    KANSAS TRANSIT Road Train Member

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    Take a good clear,straight, picture of your BOL with your smartphone and then email it to your office, should work if you have a signal, also there are some app's out there, I think Gmail has one.



     
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  5. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    it's your own fault for using truckstops.

    there are TONS of internet applications that can be used on your laptop. all you need is internet, laptop, and printer/scanner.

    i pay $7 a month for ringcentral. allows me 700 faxes a month. (lowest priced) there's higher packages. you download the software to your laptop. and use your printer/scanner. works just like an actual fax phone. as long as you have internet signal.

    there's also an app on your phone.

    so while your paying $2 PER fax. i'm paying ONE PENNY.

    email applications don't work very good. i saw the quality on company issued phones. my fax quality kicked the company phones butt. it's better then even kinkos
     
  6. MNdriver

    MNdriver Road Train Member

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    I use an hp1056 scanner/printer. I can scan my bills etc as soon as they hand em to me.. Some days, we get paid before I can even turn in the originals.

    I use doPDF for printing my documents to pdf files to email them.
     
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  7. tinytim

    tinytim Road Train Member

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    Prices vary a lot. I know one place that charges 25¢, some $2.00 a page, some charge more for the first page.

    I've been to a couple of kwik trip's that don't charge anything if you're faxing to a toll free number.

    I remember having to fax 8 or 10 pages at a J one time. The girl did each page separately, putting in the phone number each time. She seemed pretty confident there was no way to send more than one page at a time :biggrin_25513:
     
  8. .honeybadger.

    .honeybadger. Road Train Member

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    I grab the Challenge magazine at Pilot because there is usually a coupon for a free one page fax in there.
     
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  9. CondoCruiser

    CondoCruiser The Legend

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    They started charging for them things in 2010. Do drivers still take them?

    They ain't worth anything.
     
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  10. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    if your not using your own computer to fax. your paying wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much to fax.

    :biggrin_25525:
     
  11. Driver of the year

    Driver of the year Medium Load Member

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    Yea there are alot of hi tek tools available today but carrkool still has a point! $2.00? when i was out over the road, it was .25 cents per page.
     
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