Monthly Archives: February 2009
There’s More To GPS Than Dashboard Toys
Updating the GPS satellite constellation takes next step SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: 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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 ยง 395.1(e)(1) The 100 air-mile radius exception in Part … Continue reading
GPS and Trucking — HOS (Hours Of Service) Part 1
Here’s another installment in the mini-series on why American trucking executives should pull their head from the sand and start maximizing the bottom line with GPS. If you’re John Q. Public reading the mail here you may not even know what HOS represents. If you’re a trucking manager you probably think of it as a … Continue reading