I had a Peoplenet device installed last week.
I am more than a little dissatisfied with the piece of junk.
The ONLY good thing about the device is its portability. The unit docks and charges at the docking station. It is a wireless tablet, so I am no longer tripping over the cable.
However, by every other standard, the thing is garbage.
1) The text and icons are light on dark. Instead of dark on light. Anyone who has ever read a paper book, or used any book reader or modern phone knows that dark on light is easier to see.
2) The order of incoming messages is backwards. I need new messages at the top of the queue, where I can access them without swiping up 5 times.
3) The device uses a touchscreen keyboard, with keys that are far too small, making every single typed message a pain in the ###.
4) The messaging protocol was apparently designed by a complete moron. In order to receive a message, both the sender AND receiver have to have the form template on the device. When a template becomes corrupt or is mysteriously deleted randomly by the device, the device will fail to receive that type message. It also fails to send an error message. I have lost two preplans and two fuel routing emails so far. In less than a week.
Crete's utilization of Qualcomm messaging has been rather depressingly lackluster in the time I have been here, but at least Qualcomms were sanely engineered (mechanical AND software) for use by truckers.
I have spoken to a couple other poor unfortunates who have had Peoplenet garbage installed in their trucks. Apparently frequent critical failures of message forms is the norm.
If this is not improved in short order, by the end of this year, I will have to seriously consider leaving the company simply because I do not want to stress out wondering if I am missing a preplanned because the office hasn't sent one, or if the Peoplecrap device decided to randomly fail again.
Crete has apparently decided to adopt Peoplenet.
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Farmerbob1, Sep 5, 2018.
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Ozark uses omnitracs and while it's not perfect its far better than what you describe.
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I keep forgetting to to hit accept when I change status.
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I am still learning mine & have had problems but I think I'm really going to like it once they get some things sorted out on their end. A lot of the complaining I hear is user error or simple ignorance, such as editing. Just a bit ago a Crete next to me was complaining that he could only edit a whole line and not split his edit. I said yes you can, he said "no you can't." I showed him on his unit how to do it. Now he's back to being happy with it until he runs into something else he can't figure out.Farmerbob1 Thanks this. -
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Edit: I almost forgot, if the duty status you want to change was yesterday then obviously you need to change MM/DD/YYY field to yesterday along with the timeLast edited: Sep 5, 2018
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However, my biggest problem with the unit is the fact that it randomly decides to fail to deliver critical messages.kindastupid Thanks this. -
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