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I remember my neck getting sore from looking at the stupid TV all day(a lot of times several days.) Then if you made a deal, you did a 'trip lease' where you would plaster that brokers MCC# and name on your truck. The situation these days is MUCH nicer.

I was a lot younger then, and my tolerence for stupid BS was much higher.

 

Those illustrations are called hieroglyphs, Fred was an expert I believe.

 

My tolerance was incredibly higher

 

flicker box ... most of the tvs would roll and mounted on the ceiling and hard to see ..... had to write number down then go back to the pay phone ..... was easier to call brokers ... most truck stops had phone s in the booths so you could have a cup of coffee ...... and I mean coffee wasn't 56 choices of blends and ### flavors either you wanted coffee or you didn't ....

 

I'm leased to a carrier and use the transflo app. I fight with it so much when I use the camera, but if I use the scanner, the app likes the quality of the document so much more. Anyway, most printers are mfc, so you've got the scanner.

 

Man, I don't even want to think about those days. You had to be a dedicated hand to survive as a 1 truck O/O back then. I got my own authority in 1993 at the ripe old age of 27.

DAT actually had a phone system you could subscribe to. Call in and get a live operator, tell her where you were and where you wanted to go. She would start telling you what was posted in the area, if you were interested in any of these she would give you the brokers number. No way to check their credit, you decided whether to take a chance on the broker paying you.

If you took a load from one you weren't setup with, you had to find a fax machine and start the setup process. What a nightmare!! No cellphone's, no idea what a GPS was!! The internet made it so much easier. Most of the modern day seat warmers would have never survived....

I don't think my tolerance for B.S. would let me survive it again.

 

My Galaxy S9 , Laptop and all in one printer scanner. I can do most stuff off my phone but it's easier with the laptop and Scanner.

 

A portable office in the truck's cabin is a feasible option for the modern commercial driver. Celluar phones with data plans can create mobile hotspots to transfer internet access to your laptop. There are portable scanners that sync documents into PDF files to your laptop computer. A word of advice is to install an appropriately sized filing cabinet to store paper copies. The only exception would be that you cannot claim the truck as the principal office location or place of business as it does not have a valid address.