Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

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  1. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    And I know for a fact that my Google phone and Google are definitely spying on me. I started looking up the location of the delivery. I started keying in the address on the search line of Google Maps...I got 4000 typed in...and just with that number, it found my address in Louisville right away, and it's a place I've never been to, and an odd named road on top of that...where's that roll of tinfoil, I need a new hat!!!!!!
     
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  3. Lonesome

    Lonesome Mr. Sarcasm

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    Always Mr Positive, SSB....
     
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  4. motocross25

    motocross25 Road Train Member

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    Ok well while you’re making your hat, make an extra for me. Mine has done that a time or 2 and I don’t like it. And same thing like you said. I’ll be taking soy hull pellets to some farmer in the middle of Iowa, to some oddball town no one has ever heard of, and again, just like you said I won’t have the whole digits entered in but the “1,2” and it’ll come up “12345 Helping Goats Over the Fence Road, Beagles Foot, IA” like what the heck?! Lucky guess, I suppose. :rolleyes:
     
  5. Winnyf1

    Winnyf1 Road Train Member

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    Well your phone does know where you are and Google uses history and much of the data it collects to help predict useful items for you.

    Using Google signed in gives them even more insight and bar the door if you use Gmail....AI at its finest!
     
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  6. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    It also listens to your conversations. I will be talking to Mrs. Snackbar about some random, off the wall gift idea for someone...and within a week, the fill-in ads on things like Yahoo or Youtube will be along those same off the wall ideas, and of course...at a bargain price.
     
  7. bowlwinkle

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    I had that problem with the messages too. It's a known issue they're working on. I have a wireless keyboard hooked up to mine and it wouldn't play messages. I accidently hit some buttons while catching it from falling off the seat, and messages started playing. Wish I knew what I pushed. If you're using a wireless keyboard, may want to unhook it to see if it works.
     
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  9. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    Thanks, I will try unplugging it an see. Kinda a PITA not being able to hear if it's important or not. I hate pulling over only to find out it's one of those b.s. reminder messages that the office sends out by the dozen with every load.
     
  10. newbietrucker91

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    I don't know if peoplenet can connect to the dashboard but when I ran with Schneider, the start of every msg would appear. So if a msg came in I just look down and if I saw the words STOP, ill pull over to see what it is.

    Thankfully being on Crete Dedicated I don't get half the alert msg or the congratulation msg for driver x hitting 20+ years ect.
     
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  11. supersnackbar

    supersnackbar Road Train Member

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    On my International, it doesn't have the option of displaying messages on the dash, the Cascadia's might.

    And they are really insistant on the temps here...if you have a dry load and put down 'n' for temp on b/l...even if the load info said 'dry load'...the thing bugs you about it. 'you indicate load is a dry load, please verify temps and re-enter load call'....I don't think I have 1 in 5 load calls go in on the 1st try.

    The removal of the keyboard and both warm and cold reboot didn't solve my message playing issue. And this morning I had another random trip number from last week appear on yesterday's log.
     
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