Have a long time friend who reached mandatory retirement age and forced career change. He decided to try his hand at being an over the road truck driver [long change from commercial pilot].
He now drives for one of the national fleets and the trucks and trailers each have GPS units that are in constant contact with the home office. The trucks are speed limited to 65 MPH. If that speed is exceeded for more than 15 seconds an earth shaking alarm goes off in the cab and does not stop until speed is reduced. That speed deviation is recorded and reported automatically. If speed deviation continues for more than 1 minute [ie traffic passing, for example], a disciplinary action is filed and wages are held until it is resolved. If the speed exceeds 75 mph at any time, you are fired, period, no going back. He is paid by the mile. [My personal vision of hell, BTW.] Grant... On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: > Craig wrote: > >> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 05:33:48 -0500 "arche...@embarqmail.com" >> <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote: >> >> It would seem like that with modern technology a truckline would know >>> if a driver was driving or sitting in one place, and also know his >>> location? Gerry >>> >> >> Yes, indeed. In fact, that type of service has been used to find trucks >> that have been stolen. >> > > I first heard about 20 years ago that you couldn't sleep in your parked > truck with an electric heater because the home office would see the voltage > drop. > > Mitch. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
