Archive for September, 2006

There’s More To GPS Than Dashboard Toys

Updating the GPS satellite constellation takes next stepSPACEFLIGHT NOWPosted: September 25, 2006
One year to the day after the Global Positioning System constellation began a modernization effort to improve the accuracy of the navigation network, the next step in that upgrade blasted into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida…. read a lot more here, great [...]

A Little To Do about SportsDo — GPS Your Sports Training

SportsDo is a GPS sports tracking system for your mobile phone which enables you to record your sporting activities while broadcasting live tracking stats to friends and family via the SportsDo web portal. Detailed analysis of your activities can be performed on our SportsDo web portal allowing you to relive the experience and continually improve [...]

Hang up And Drive!

Here’s a recent entry in Rosalind Gardner’s Net Profits Today blog that at first glance doesn’t seem to be GPS-related but it’s just so important that I have to take the time to address the issue.  Now, listen up … Rosalind is a guru of what we web weenies call “Affiliate Marketing, but the link [...]

GPS laws — Updating Needed

Laws on GPS use need to be updated
WHEN Global Positioning Systems (GPS) first came on the scene, they were used mainly by local law enforcement and federal government agencies.
Now they’re available to businesses and parents who want to use them to track employees or children. General Motors uses GPS technology in the NorthStar system in [...]

GPS for Teens — Some Updates

There are “rites of passage” for every teenage child, the majority of which give parents new reasons to worry each time one is reached. The first date, the first day of high school, the first time driving without the supervision of an elder.
According to The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, automobile crashes are [...]

GPS and Trucking — HOS (hours Of Service) Part 2

As Dave Barry is famous for saying, “I’m not making this up”.  You may think part 1 of this series was complicated, but when you get into local commercial vehicle operations, you ain’t seen nothing yet: (Reference)
Summary of the 100 air-mile radius HOS provision in § 395.1(e)(1)
The 100 air-mile radius exception in Part § 395.1(e)(1) is [...]

How On Earth Can This Be Headline News? Are Trucking Managers All Dead From The Neck Up?

Trucking Headlines
Werner’s exemption for GPS logs renewed
By Avery Vise
Werner Enterprises can operate its paperless Global Positioning System-based driver log system for another two years under an exemption renewal granted on Thursday, Sept. 7. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is allowing the Werner program to continue under terms and conditions initially approved two years [...]

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