Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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Carlson Logistics_OVD1113_PG.indd 1 10/22/13 2:52 PM 90 | Overdrive | August 2015 EARLY ADOPTERS Southern Pride_OVD0914_PG.indd 1 8/28/14 9:05 AM vice. Hours information for storage is pulled off with the driver key that then can be plugged into a laptop computer. Updates to the software on the device run from the operator's computer back to the device. Essen- tially, McCarthy says, with the plug into the data port to the ECM, the RoadLog is reading the odometer and also using GPS within the device for location. Muhammad, however, was after something more. After getting some pushback from the driver in his second truck on the BigRoad app's data usage on his data plan (the driver was footing the bill), Muhammad looked into a more dedicated unit he could provide for logs that offered dispatch utility and other services in a single truck-dedicated package. He took a new Rand McNally TND 760 AOBRD unit on its maiden voyage last month on his regular Atlanta-to-Raleigh/ Durham reefer run. "If you're not willing to adapt to change, you'll get left behind," he adds. "History is full of examples of people who were pigheaded and didn't want to adapt to what the going way was at the time." Get ready, he suggests. Change is coming.