The Trucking Nerd

Aaron Huff who runs the Private Fleets blog has just posted an interesting article based on an presentation from Dr. Joseph Salvo, the manager of the Pervasive Decisioning Systems at the GE Global Research Center. In this article Dr. Salvo discusses the end of the information age and the beginning of the systems age. He also makes reference to the fascinating topic of swarm intelligence and gives some real world insight to how these concepts apply to the transportation industry and what the future will hold, some very cool ideas and concepts!

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I posted over at LifeOnTheRoad a brief article discussing the ever popular and useful Google SMS service. 

I’m surprised to find that there are still a lot of IT people who don’t what this is nor have ever attempted to experiment with it.  If you’re in IT and don’t know what it is, stop right now and go click this link to learn more.  In short, you can shoot Google short SMS messags and get answers quickly back regarding just about anything such as phone numbers, weather, sports, stocks, flights, movie times, directions and tons more. 

If you’re in IT at a trucking company, you’re drivers will appreciate all the tips you can give them, let them know about Google SMS, it’s a great tool when you’re out on the road!

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I recently partnered with Life on the Road.  They are a collective blogging group that is geared toward a variety of trucking topics.  I will occasionally make posts in their forum in addition to the Trucking Nerd when it makes sense.  While the Trucking Nerd is more focused on technology from a companies perspective, Life on the Road has a strong driver following, so I’ll try to post in the forum that best suites the post.

My inaugural post over at Life on the Road discusses the time zone conundrum we face not only in trucking, but across this planet.  

With the flattening of our economy in this day and age, I fail to understand how we can continue to have so many different labels for a single point in time, all based upon the location of the globe you happen to be at for that particular point in time.  This is particularly perplexing for the trucking industry, in addition to the computer industry where time is an integral part to how both function.

I pose a few questions and delve into the topic deeper in my post there, if you are interested, here’s the link to the post.

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