Cell phone tracking the drivers location.

Get you a Straight Talk. I pay $45.00 a month for unlimited everything (Phone, Text and Internet) and have actually hit more dead areas with Verizon than I have straight talk. Mine is a flip and will stay a flip. You cant do as much with a flip as you can the others but all I want one for is to call home and customers- I have a laptop for internet. Ive had mine for 10 years. You can get them at most Walmarts.

 

I only used it once, from where I delivered to my home there's no truck stops, I deleted it later when it required my location setting be turned on.
I just walk over to the bank and have them fax it in.

 

And I have got the worst telemarketer from India calling me almost every day, today it says "caller unknown" and it's him, he says "hello" and I cut him off and in my Pakistsni accent I say "hello, my computer is running very slowly, can you help me"?
Dead silence for like 8 seconds and then he asks me if I'm in front of my computer, I feel bad telling him to go £€%# a camel.

 

1st of all, where do you get the impression that it's the gps giving up your location. And turning it off prevents anyone from knowing where you are. Your cell network tracks your movement via cell towers. That is the way they handshake from the current tower to the next tower so your signal is virtually seamless. How do you think traffic alert systems on things like google maps and your gps' traffic radio network track traffic. The only true way to disable being tracked is the battery pull. I hear drivers all the time talk about how they think that when the e-log mandate kicks in, they're screwed because everyone will be under the watchful eye of the government...bad news, if you have a cell phone, you already are. Cheat the logs, and then if someone hits you and is seriously injured, guess what is taken from YOU 1st. Any cell phone and computer/tablet. Even if the LEO doesn't have the authority to probe your phone, guess who will...the other person's lawyer. Besides that, do you see how many traffic cameras and scale cameras there are out there? What about the license plate scanning done by patrol cars? Face it folks, unless you're Amish, you are tracked. Losen the tinfoil hat and accept it, it's a fact of modern day life...you can learn to live with it or find a cave out in some desolate mountain range and get comfy.

 

Which I would laugh at and delete.

 

Aps get your location from your GPS. Aps don't use cell towers. The tracking the brokers do, do use cell towers.

You can install any GPS spoof app. You can set your location to Omaha, NE. Open Google maps. You are in Omaha. Check your local weather app. In Omaha it is.......Post to Facebook, you're in Omaha., etc.

 

Actually the US Senate or the Supreme court recently ruled that LEO's have the ability now to access any phone they come across within a scope of a wreck, arrest and so forth.

Regarding my own phone, I found a setting that kills the data to and from the internet side. This month I will see if it behaves itself. If it does not, I will be more than happy to go luddite with a flip phone. Ive had a very good ride as far as paying roughly 130 dollars every 12 months of service which is more than adequate.

For one driver buried in telemarketer and spammers etc, install an app called Call Blocker or Call Detector to the smart phone. Allow this app a permisison to control your phone. At that point anyone who calls will be identified as bad or reported or so forth and your phone will fail to ring with that incoming number blocked.

There is another setting in there that blocks automatically all calls who fail to idenfiy themselves. I don't mind my Pa calling, but if his phone does not display his name and his number is not already in my approved contact list the phone will not ring for him.

Essentially a technology war of software and apps fighting against a army of telemarketers and scammers who have succeeded in the past (Do not call list be ######... Im on that also have been since day one.) It's crazy.

I know this much.

The technology trail ends here as far as smart phones are concerned. I will not go and adopt anything newer or invented in the future. It would be too close to what is called mark of the beast. If that means living in a forest away from society that's ok. /sarcasm.

As far as your brokers are concerned tell them to pound sand. They can call your dispatcher well enough and get the information from your satellite in that truck. There is a code that qualcomm displays when it is being actively interrogated by either a reciever, shipper, dispatch or other authorized persons allowed to do so it will display that code somewhere in the upper left corner of it's resting state screen on the older ones Im familiar with.

If Im going to put up with brokers, someone sell me a long noses big frame 379 with a 650 cummins and double 13 and let's get that authroity going so it's going to be worth the money for that stress and aggravation LOL. Might as well be an American, making a good path to happiness putting up with crankly sassy brokers who are too lazy to look up #### on their own computer screens. /lunch counter talk....