Whats the best phone company to have for OTR?

We ran sprint in our time. Severing with the cell phone and laptop modem decades of truckstop payphones. (Which in many places began to be removed. I will miss them)

Fast forward to today, I no longer use a land line. Due to robo political calling and spam etc. I no longer use Sprint or cell phone contracts. I do have a trac mobile phone which serves me well these last few years and would not be afraid to take it on the road with me. Text messaging does suffer when signals are not full 4 bars. It is not the be all or end all, but paying approx 30 dollars every 3 months or a yearly card annually is a small price to pay for a valid phone number that works reasonably well.

There is one thing about cell phones and traveling. If you are in a place like Seattle near the border, it might try and connect to a Canadian Tower and end up running charges against you. I had that happen once and twice and told Sprint that we are truckers and do not expect or want to pay the 800 dollars in roaming, international charges for that month when the bills came in. Ultimately we use just the satellite qualcomm particularly when the wife (Second driver) can tap away with it while we kept rolling so we don't have to have to stop.

To go with the cell phone, we purchased from a Office supplier like Staples once a year a CD or DVD of business phone numbers for the entire country. So that if we needed to find the distribution center due to corrupted directions from say a local walmart, we can call the manger directly and find out. (How the hell did you get this number!? Drivers DO NOT get this number?! /rant...)

 

I already got a taste. I've been playing Texas Hold'em for fun for the last six months. I was just wondering how one goes "professional." Yes I heard that online gambling is illegal in the states.

 

Haha, I got ya...
No official method or system for attaining "professional" status..
You just announce it when your graph is upward trending....
If you can do that at all, your a pro...

A pro has a life of loosing...A pro is only ITM (in the money) 10% to 12% of the time..(In tournaments)..
So, Ive found the biggest skill in professional poker is being able to handle insane improbable losses...You may play 5 hours, and be at the very end of a tourney and be so close to the money, and the guy bluffing with 8-4 offsuit cracks your 2 aces and you loose...that happens 90% percent of the time in professional, for money poker....

For fun poker would have been so much funner...But I got into it for a legitamate second form of income, not fun...lol

Doyle Brunson says "hard way to make a easy living"
or wait, might have that backwards...hek i dunno

If you ever hear 'pokerstars' is back in your state...def sign up and play....Its back in NJ right now, the rest of the states are gonna follow suit and merge player pools...it'll be fun again online..
I won 14k once in a 3 dollar tournament...came in 3rd..I requested a withdrawl and I got two 7 thousand dollar checks, that actually cashed...couldnt believe it..I totally thought I was going to jail that day at the bank...

anyways, i ramble

 

I had the Verizon $35 a month pre-pay. Never a problem in the western states. A few places you'd expect to not have signal like the rest stop on 90 in Idaho. Problem is all you get is talk and text.

Now have straight-talk $45 a month pre-pay. Haven't tested it OTR since I am now more local. But I checcked with other OTR drivers and many said straight talk was good western 11. Don't know about east.
Biggest advantage, google maps.

Good luck.