Hell if they are using the omni tracks gps on quallcom ya'll best get a rand mcnally for back up...cause the omni tracks actually freezes up in places like LA, lot of big cities going thru town or in heavily wooded mountainous areas
Qualcomm will be locked out while driving beginning July 18
Discussion in 'Prime' started by prosidius, Jul 1, 2017.
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Considering the QC puts you out of route just for pulling into a weigh station in some cases, the fact that we can't rerouted while in motion is asinine.
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They tried this a few years ago, lasted about a week.
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I like the qualcomm. As a deaf man having the precise information in text message form was a breakthrough that allowed me to stay in the industry. However wife did alot of typing for me when we were running down the highway. You won't believe how much time it takes to actually stop, park and do the messages and then get back onto the highway.
Generally messages from dispatch is not that important. Call me wont happen until today's 500 miles is finished and anything else less than a total emergency can wait or is not responded back for a good while if ever.
Back in about 1995 we had a evening of QC messages to internet live chat once. Left Biloxi northbound into a ice storm and got into Chattanooga TN before we had completed our series of communications back and forth. It was a good friend on the east coast. He does not know that he owes me 30 dollars for the messages costs in total after 5 hours worth of chat. But since I was on ice and it was at night and only responded at idle in lowest gear crossing the foot of sand on the MS bridges it was not that hard and it was a good morale boost that night so I'll let it go. It was a portent of a brave new future where cell phones and text messaging became much more common and cheap. It costs nothing to pass a stack of text messaging on phone.
However, I am a big fan of QC and refuse to part with it. Every truck should have the #### thing.
Now if Uncle Sam will just stop fooling with laws as if we were children that are misguided and need correction.... -
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Let me know when your paper map does this.
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