Brokers want to track me....

Same as on base.

 

Not reasonable.

Our phones are now locked, the driver can not install apps on them, and there has to be a contract specific with my company and the party that wants to install the app which includes malware damage repairs at a fixed rate of $5000 per phone.

We are thinking of suing a broker who sent a confirmation to a driver, established a contract and pulled the load because the driver refused to install an app on a company phone after he arrived at the shipper, he was asked to do a arrival call and a departure call. When the driver did the arrival call, the broker told him he has to install the app and the driver refused so the broker pulled the load from the driver and refused to compensate us for the losses on the move. Won't ding his bond don't want anything but a judgement in court but I am going to go after him for breech of contract based on the fact no app was mentioned anywhere in the contract.

 

That is what the satellite on that truck is for, have them call dispatcher and they will find you in a few moments. No problem.

I am like you. I put NOTHING on my phone. And hardly anything more on the computer. It really does not matter because I use a burner phone i don't care about when it's searched, literally something off the side table that been rotting for years. They can confisicatet hat all they want. There isnt anything on it.

Brokers don't get to track *&^% I hauled medicines in high dollar loads and they contain their own trackers, the trailer is on a seperate qualcomm and tractor has it's own. My cell number is strictly mine, I don't give it out to anyone anymore.

There re only two apps on my phone. One blocks texts and the other blocks voice calls. There is a handful of people I call and that's by relay only and that number is never ever given out.

In short tell the broker to pound sand. Or call your dispatcher instead.

Sometimes you might consider not even using a cell phone capable of taking a app. If you can get a older phone that barely texts and put that into service, you are good to go.

 

He's watching you.

 

There is an app called mobile sylectus that you can get loads on, and even put the info for the load on it and send it to him. You tell him which carrier you use and he can track you IF you hit the "start tracking" bar.

 

What kind of phone do you use that cost $5,000????

This one is 2 years old and has like 4 tracking apps on it.

I was thinking of upgrading to whatever my free upgrade is from Verizon, usually the value is like $800ish.

5 U's. Think I only paid $1800 for my PC and monitor.

What kind of phone is that? Like a satellite one the Green Berets use?

 

I don't think it's meant to be a 1 to 1 replacement cost, but a disincentive to using the tracking apps in the first place. I'd be extremely surprised if any of the major tracking apps are vectors for malware. I'd place it solely on user error and bad habits. Certainly it's something which shouldn't be taken lightly, but I think a few people might have their foil on a little too tight.

 

They talk to people like that be because they're used to talking to drivers who HAVE to do things they're told to do. It's a different story with OOs.

 

The phone doesn't cost much, I paid $300 each for them, but the time to take to clean up a phone and to check the data from that phone takes a lot of time and don't need to have it happen.

I have the app that runs on the phone that is pulls and pushes data to my servers, don't need my data going somewhere it doesn't need to be or having some malware inserted into my servers so we have locked down the phones to prevent apps from being installed. the Driver can do that to his own phone, but that's his problem if he has issues.