Internet Truckstop Load Board Are Thieves

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by ProfessionalNoticer, Jun 13, 2022.

  1. ProfessionalNoticer

    ProfessionalNoticer Road Train Member

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    For well over a year their product has not been fully functional. I've wasted so many hours trying to get it resolved and now I can't even get anyone on the phone that I can understand. It seems their phone people are not native English speakers anymore. Knowingly selling a defective product is theft.
     
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  3. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    All i can say is..a year? geez.

    Their teachers told then they’d never amount to much because they procrastinate so much. They told the teachers, “Just you wait!”
     
  4. Flat Earth Trucker

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    After Virgin Mobile robbed me of my virginity, I've always went with unlimited talk, text, and internet. Why people try to save a nickel tracking down wifi or hotspots is beyond me.
     
  5. Judge

    Judge Road Train Member

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    Well... the easiest time to add insult to injury is when you’re signing someone’s cast. :dontknow:
     
  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I'm cheap, but the one thing I learned not to scrimp on is phone service. If you travel and work in a limited area, get any phone service you like with good connections there. If you are OTR your choices are limited to ATT & Verizon towers. The way you can save money is get access to ATT or Vzw by using a MVNO. They buy ATT and Vzw access by the rail car and then sell it to you MUCH cheaper than ATT & Vzw. You can get unlimitedtalk and text many ways. You can get large amounts of data cheap. Visible is Verizon's discount brand. There are no stores, no humans to talk to, just connection to the Vzw network for $25/mo if you sign up for Party Pay. Party pay s where you and 3 others share a $100/mo unlimited everything paqckage. You don't provide the 3 other people, know the 3 other people or coordinate payments with the 3 other people. Visible takes care of all of that. You just pay $25/ mo on credit card and thatis it.

    Xfinity Mobile also resells Vzw service. for half what Vzw charges. The only catch, if you don't already subscribe to either Xfinity cable TV or Xfinity internet at home then you are charged an extra $20 per month. But if you are going to have either of those at your house, then you just pay$45 per month for unlimited talk, text, and data. Data may be slowed after 22GB. If you use your phone as a hotspot hotspot speeds are 5Mbs.
     
  7. ProfessionalNoticer

    ProfessionalNoticer Road Train Member

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    There's always a catch with those MVNOs. The hot spot/tethering catch is the one that usually keeps me from using the resellers.
     
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  8. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Visible doesn't prevent or slow hotspot speeds. The downside to Visible, besides EVERYTHING must be done online or via chat, is they only support a limited number of phone models. This allows them to need virtually no customer service overhead.
    US Mobile is another well-regarded MVNO. I think it's $30/mo for unlimited. IIRC they stop your data at 30 or 50GB instead of slowing it.
    I use Howard Forums for all things cellphone. They have lots of industry insiders and savvy users so you get some interesting items plus poorly-promoted cheap plan info.
     
  9. ProfessionalNoticer

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    Howard Forums is a great resource.
     
  10. Wasted Thyme

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    just use PDANet+ and you don't have any issues with tethering. I've used 1TB of data w/o ever being capped in a month. Because they don't know you are tethered.
     
  11. Another Canadian driver

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    Are you a Virgin Mobile 'survivor' too?
    Are you still getting emails from your abuser?
    'Hey 'my name', the world is not the same without you!'
    Every week.
    I got tears in my eyes watching them suffering without me and my money.
    There are tears of joy, just to make it clear.
     
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