Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 24th, 2005
Well, many readers may be tired with my continual rant about government agencies that refuse to do what they are paid to when it comes to fleet management.
Two pieces of good news today:
PGCPS Leads the State in Advancing Bus Safety; Nextel GPS Tracking System Installed on School Buses:
http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/4845/
Prince Georges County Maryland gets a tip of [...]
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Or so, it is claimed, said sports great Yogi Berra. Just a few minutes ago I took the short walk to my mailbox … on the way I passed a house under construction and there were guys from the cable TV/Internet supplier in our community. I won’t call them by name, they’re that [...]
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
Brethren, I take for my text today the Gospel according to FedEx:
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I skipped the blog entry yesterday, no excuse, boss, except for the fact that since Friday afternoon I’ve been an unpaid employee of FedEx Ground, trying to get an important shipment the final few miles from their [...]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2005
Well it seems a day doesn’t go by that I don’t see another government agency being abused by their employees. See:
It looks like the school district here is trying to do the right thing, but instead of looking at safety for their own driver members and safety for children (which in my naive’ “outside [...]
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Saturday, March 19th, 2005
So many of today’s media seem oblivious to what GPS and tracking really is. This just irks me no end, since in many cases GPS has been around longer than the writer-reporter has been, the writer probably has more education than I have, and, at the practical level, GPS is just not that hard to [...]
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
Today I saw some troubling new news regarding the Federal Hours Of Service (HOS) regulations for commercial trucking. The law was changed at the beginning of the year, with wrenching results to some areas of the industry. The reason for the change in the law was trumpeted as a step to reduce drivers working too [...]
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