Digital Trip Recording?

Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by TortuousAugur, Aug 28, 2014.

  1. TortuousAugur

    TortuousAugur Bobtail Member

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    Company has a custom form I have to fill out for each load with info slots being for date, state, routes taken, odometer reading at state line, mileage per state and gallons of fuel purchased.If I can just easily get route and miles, the rest is cake.
     
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  3. gpsman

    gpsman Road Train Member

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    They used to call those "trip envelopes", and you recorded your odometer reading as you crossed state lines. Some guys used paper, some used grease pencil on the window, I used a digital voice recorder before I got smarter.

    Do yourself a favor and buy some GIS app for the laptop you should have. I tested them all, and prefer S&T. Plan your trip and run your plan and the route will be right there in front of your face and mileage between turns and at state lines will appear in the Directions.
     
  4. Dieselboss

    Dieselboss Technology Contributor

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    Self contained tracking unit tracking-unit-device-sm.jpg

    OR

    An app for your Android or iPhone (search "mileage log" or "trip log" on the device app store)

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    A Rand McNally "TND" series GPS

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    A Garmin "DEZL" series GPS

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    MS Streets for windows

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    A voice recorder device (less than 20 bucks) or a voice recorder app (if you want to use your smartphone - free)

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    A USB tracker/recorder (Google "usb tracker" or trackstick)

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    A passenger with a clipboard

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    A grease pencil
     
    gpsman Thanks this.
  5. TortuousAugur

    TortuousAugur Bobtail Member

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    "Today we announce [...] the discontinuation of Microsoft Streets & Trips."
    Guess S&T won't be a viable option anymore.
    Writing down the odometer at the state line would be easy enough, if only I could have some kind of audible warning when it happened. I always seem to zone out at state lines and miss them. I'll look into the trip logging app for Android and see if I can get what I'm looking for.
     
  6. Dieselboss

    Dieselboss Technology Contributor

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    Rand McNally TND GPS - Turn on the state/province line warning alert. But then again, that would be redundant because it is recording the state mileage anyway.
     
  7. TortuousAugur

    TortuousAugur Bobtail Member

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    Are they a good GPS? The Garmin I use, I recently updated the maps, and there are still very big errors for truck routes...
    That was the GPS I was thinking about buying before I got this one from my driver father in law.
     
  8. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    rand is the best unit on the market. just look at this sight. 500 pages of support threads.

    not one page started for any other brand. :biggrin_25519:. other then reviews here and there.
     
  9. TortuousAugur

    TortuousAugur Bobtail Member

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    So I gave trip log on android an eight hour test, and this might be exactly what I need. Anyone here (reading the thread) use it and know how I would see state miles from my recorded trip?
     
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