Archive for August, 2005

Monitor your Teen Drivers Part II

Driving with male teens is risky!
Washington August 29, 2005 10:17:21 AM IST
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=111115&cat=World

Here’s a great article that seems to confirm some of the empirical ‘knowledge’ many of us carry around. Male teens are high-risk drivers, and male teens with other male teens in the car are significantly more risky. My daddy had an [...]

Businesses are waking up?

Businesses get frugal with fuel
09:32 AM CDT on Friday, August 26, 2005
By ANGELA SHAH and BRENDAN M. CASE / The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/082605dnbusfuelecon.1ca451d0.html

Interesting article today that covers a lot of ground vis-a-vis constantly rising fuel costs and the toll on businesses everywhere.

An interesting fact that didn’t make the [...]

What is really Up There?

The GPS Constellation: Now and Future
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/08/the-gps-constellation-now-and-future/index.php#orison_mc

Those of us in the industry regularly blather on about the ’system’ as if it were common knowledge. I came across this referenced article and thought it might be interesting to the more technically minded individuals.

About the only technical flaw in the article is its assertion that [...]

State Workers Vexed

Some state workers vexed by vehicle policy
August 14, 2005
By Robin Palmer Staff Writer

A policy that has state employees scrambling to find cars to drive while their own vehicles sit idle has many fuming…. (full article here:)

Well here’s some happy news for a Monday morning … the State of Vermont apparently has some [...]

Workers Caught Stealing Gas

Jackson City Workers Caught Stealing Gas
August 10, 2005
JACKSON, MS
Jackson police are investigating city workers for the theft of gas, according to WLBT TV. They’re not driving off from the pumps, but using taxpayer money to fill gas tanks in their personal vehicles…. (see full article here:)
http://www.fleet-central.com/gf/t_inside.cfm?action=news_pick&storyID=20463
OK, so how does this little tidbit relate [...]

Do We need More Hunters?:”

Although I’ve never been a hunter I come from a state which makes a big deal out of hunting and I support hunters and properly managed wildlife management programs. However, one form of hunting I think out to be avidly supported, nation-wide, with a year-round open season is wasters like these government ner-do-wells in California.
Hunting [...]

The Problem Is Not The Technology, It’s Taking Responsibility

Mobile Asset Tracking Not a Homogenous(sic) Market, Finds ABI Research
…”There are two key differences between container tracking and trailer tracking: containers are typically used in international trade, while trailers are usually domestically transported. Containers are therefore subject to greater governmental regulation, and, quite frankly, the US government and other nations have been dragging their [...]