Cell phone tracking the drivers location.

Sure... $250 per load and you can track all you want.

 

Coyote Logistics does this. I just tell them that the app. doesn't work on my iphone and that's it.

NOTE: Some phones like the iphone will keep a record of places you've been.

I just realized this and was surprised that when the phone pinged a cell tower, it showed where I was. There was a long trail of locations.

I deleted the data and disabled the iphone from doing it anymore.

 

Oh yeah..it Sucks.That's the new trend ,scanners,people's net,gps,watching you all the time on their laptop.Had a dispatcher tell me one time "as soon as you get done with lunch at Wendy's I have a pu for you! Seriously between weigh stations,random DOT shakedowns,cameras and scrutiny by the public.,sometimes feel like a criminal?

 

You can delete all you want on your end. And disable, spoof or hack...but, the phone company has Exabytes of data on cell movement (exabytes are 3 levels above gigabyte). How do you think they find a starting point when searching for a missing person. The phrase "the last know location their cell phone pinged was..." comes up in every missing person news report.

Amish, I think they're on to something...maybe I'll convert and be an Amish truck driver..."Giddy up gluestick, we have deliveries to make"

I don't have anything to hide, if they want to know where I am any given time...fine by me. I have a do not disturb setting on my phone. I can tell it to stop receiving calls, txts and general notifications during my break. I can even tell it to accept incoming whatever from certain contacts so my wife or kids can reach me any time, but no one else can. Track me all you want, it's your wasted money.

 

I just got the iPhone 5 SE and the microphone is always on listening for me to say "Hey Siri"
On the iPhone 5, the hey Siri only worked while it was plugged in.

 

Usually it's a option you can turn on and off in the settings.


And i believe recently the govt was granted full access about where a phone last pinged and they can do this without a warrant heard it on the news not long ago

 

Just way too much big brotherism going on. I too have nothing to hide, but so what! I don't want to be on a darned leash, electronic or otherwise!
Of course, since I'm retired, it is completely possible to loose the darn phone. But I won't. Hell I just egotistical enough to think someone might actually want to talk to me...

 

A ping is 'public knowledge', so to speak. No warrant needed.

It's rather the same thing with the new cameras going in so many trucks.
They tell us that they can not watch us in 'real time'.
But, what is 'real time'?
Legally, 'real time' means something like 'in that exact instant'. But there is around a 3 second lag between when the camera records and sends the video and the receiver can view it.
Whatever they see is something in the past, and not real time - even streaming live.
Even light takes time to travel even an inch.

Even we do not see in 'real time', because the light waves we are perceiving bounced off something before we perceive them. It may not be very much time, but there is always a lag between when something happens and we actually see it.

Transit time means that nothing we perceive is in real time - perhaps not even our own thoughts.

 

Yes we earthlings are well aware of the settings dial, but I do like asking Siri questions,
I may be driving along and all of a sudden need to know if Tim Conway is still alive and she'll tell me

 

Plus we as the driver only get one shot at avoiding the problem and with no prior warning that something big is about to go down.
Whereas the person watching the "hard brake" incident can watch it hundreds of times and slow it down and then finally have someone else explain what happened and then they can coach the driver about what they did wrong, even though they didn't hit anything or tear anything up,