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Plum phone deal for Verizon customers
The Droid Razr M is currently on a free-with-two-year-contract deal with Verizon — it’s a solid phone, this shot showing the Kevlar backing. If you’re a Verizon customer with a fair amount of history...
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Understanding Granny on the road
Wendy and her grandmother Communication is sometimes difficult from the road. Being away from home as much as we are completely confuses some of the older members of our family. My grandmother, who’s...
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Trucker Tools in the gray lady; Channel 19 getting quieter?
It’s no secret that smartphone apps related to the trucking business and life have multiplied exponentially over the last several years — we did a big roundup in the Pocket Tools feature, showcasing...
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Wonders of technology: Saving a life
You’ve probably come across the thankful survival story of Orlando, Fla.-based Tim Rutledge, who was trapped under his rig in Indiana in the very-cold temps of the last Monday. Checking out his brakes...
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Drivewyze: Free weigh-station alert function for app
Readers with Android phones can take advantage of the new weigh-station alert functionality of the Drivewyze PreClear app via this link. Drivewyze PreClear weigh-station bypassing app is out in a new...
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The tanks have arms
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the site entry to see the video.] We found a load of tank arms to take us close enough to the house to stop off for a reset. I had no idea...
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Report: Air horns for four-wheeler safety?
This one’s been making the rounds on the trucking Facebook pages, including Overdrive‘s own, and it fired at least one cylinder in that part of my brain reserved for relatively recent memory....
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Fluent talk-to-text and autocorrect
So as smart as our smartphones are, they still haven’t learned to recognize about half of what my family says when they’re using talk to text – which we all use a lot, because George is driving most of...
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Who you talkin’ to?
Someone posted this cartoon on my page today – and I laughed and laughed at it until I realized I’ve been the dummy thinking someone was having a conversation with me, and it wasn’t so funny anymore....
View ArticleFourKites’ new load-tracking service for any cellphone
Real-time location information is fed into the FourKites platform to predict ETAs and provide delay alerts and arrival and departure times at stops using circular and polygon geo-fences.
View ArticleOde to those who make us laugh
"Here's to the people who make us laugh when we'd rather cry, especially my sweet husband. Make someone laugh today -- you never know who feels like the cat's been sucking on their hair, and you may...
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