Macropoint cell phone tracking

I personally hate things like macropoint as I'm a privacy first type of person. However, it does seem more and more customers are requiring it.

Macro point doesn't work how one would initially think. It's really not so bad. There are a few options that you can do. A 1 day load that tracks every 2 hours, 2 day loads that track every 3 hours, or 3 or more day load that tracks every 4 hours. You can pay more as the broker to get up to 1 hr updates or you can have it ping the phone right at that moment for extra money as well.

Imagine a map and then each time it pings every x amount of hours, it pinpoints on the map. Throughout the course of the load you will begin to see if the driver is staying on time and heading in the right direction, that's it. There is no live tracking, snooping your phone, etc.

Once the driver delivers and tells macro the load is done, tracking completes and disengages your phone.

If you tell macropoint your loaded, run the trip as expected, then tell it you unloaded, everything will be great.

One thing that is frustrating for brokers is if you accept it, then turn right around and deny it. For a couple reasons... 1 macropoint charges you regardless, and two the customer is not happy.

Like rollin coal said... it's becoming part of the service required to be an all star carrier. Just utilize it to the best of your ability, and get on down the road.

Edit: We normally use it on first time carriers that are hauling either high value or important hot loads. Once there is a track record established, then you get the first call and no more macro. It's really to protect everyone's butt.

 

The only concern I have with these tracking apps is that they could unveil all my little HOS sins. But the trend has been set. It may not be too long before they want to access your phone camera to see whether you shaved or not.

 

If you use a gps or cell phone, that tracking horse has already escaped the barn. That said, it's nothing that would be seen during an ordinary inspection. It would certainly get found if it was worth finding, such as the ambulance chaser representing the family of your fatality victim.

 

For example... it's a Friday night and I'm trying to relax. However, I'm so ate up with the business that I can't help but be on a trucking forum....

We have just 1 brokered load in progress and I can see by my gps on my own trucks and O/o that everything is finishing up nicely for the weekend.

The one load I have macropoint on... I'm getting an update via email every two hours... the last email just came through and I can see he/she is within 1 hr and is making steady progress. This customer HAS to have the product tonight or the production shuts down.

Am I about 50x less stressed about this load right now vs no macro? Yes! I can actually rest easy.

 

So I know this is an old thread but I found out something today from Coyote. This is only when you're doing Coyote loads. If you do not opt in to macropoint before starting a load for them and a detention situation arises you could possibly have to wait up to 30 days for detention approval. I always opt in to allow macropoint tracking but sometimes my rep, for whatever reasons, doesn't always send the text asking me to opt in. And so that didnt happen on a load last week and even though I documented everything doing all the required check calls here we are 4 business days later and no approval yet for $290 in detention. So heads up if you run any Coyote loads.

 

My how things have changed. I have never run gps, my old flip phone doesn't even have a camera, much less a gps, macropoint or the likes may or may not even work with it.
When I leave town with a load I can stop at just the right spot in a pullout on top at 28 mile and have cell service, then that is it for 450 miles before I have service again.

I used to pull some company trailers north, I had to call seattle when I hooked up and left. They would never have an empty dispatched for me when I got there to bring back, and I don't wait, so I was always bobtailing back. They kept trying to get me to stop half way at the only pay phone and call them to let them know when I would get there, so they could have a dispatch for me. I'm like I call in when I leave town, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that I will be here 12 to 14 hours later, have me a trailer ready in 10, just incase the road is exceptional. They claimed that the time I called in meant nothing, that some of their company drivers would take their 34 off on the way up. lol
I think I hauled 11 loads and bobtailed back before I got them trained.

 

I have certain kinds of calls and now text messaging. I use two apps to pretty much discard them. Phone does not receive the call or text in question.

We are already at a point now we can expect a flood of spam text type messaging. We have unlimited text, however one app makes sure that if it is not welcome, it's not going to get through ever again in the future without the phone reacting.

I cannot imagine a future in which anything you do in life is traceable without your consent. We are already there.

If you log in with a Google ID you will find mylocationhistory.com records EVERYTHING you ever did under that log in. EVERYTHING on that device or computer. I erase mine periodically. I do not log into google but once a year and only for just a few minutes as needed. and other times to strictly erase any history.

Even then according to the map on my phone, it is possible to find that device in the living room or in the garage. It's that precise. I once walked that distance with it and the dot followed me.

And finally but not last.. hold on to your tinfoil...

Wireless routers and any other device that emits wireless in roughly the 5 gigahertz is capable of being audited by a special device to use the radiation waves of that signal to determine where you are inside your room from the other side of the wall and also to determine by the changes in your body to see if you are breathing or not.

Pretty soon, it will determine your heart rate and other useful things when the "Resolution" gets fine enough and computers fast enough to do that required processing in real time.

Particularly when we deploy technology into the 5G format which has radiation approaching 100 gigahertz. If I remember what little of the electronic spectrum of our world, we are approaching that which is generated by Nuclear Weapons and capable of hurting and killing people in ways we do not understand yet if given sufficient power.

 

It won't take long before they insert little chips up everybody's arse or else you won't find work or buy health insurance.

 

I've been meaning to post this. Has anyone noticed Macropoint's 'contest' lately where some number of drivers receive a cash prize if you download/use their app? I looked at it and it will only let you sign up if you have your location settings set to 'always allow' their software to track your phone, a huge violation of privacy and a battery killer to boot.

H*ll no. I set mine to "only while using app" and most brokers tell me it isn't working. Oh well.......

 

Steps to get detention
Use app
Get in and out times with signatures
Send to detention department
Call number
Call again
Email
Talk to 2 different brokers
Talk to pay department
Send in urine sample
Send in blood sample
Send in selfie with a newspaper
Click the I'm not a robot box
Denied!!!!!!!