Truck Stops Get Wireless Internet

Makarand writes "According to SFGate.com, a company called IdleAire Technologies are building high-tech truck stops to provide drivers with air-conditioning, television, Internet access and phone service in truck cabs, so that they can turn off their engines. Trucks will pull into bays, where flexible tubes ending in vents for hot or cold air, and touch sensitive screens for Internet access can be pulled inside the truck's cab. There's also a separate wireless Internet option, where drivers don't have to pull into the bays. The basic services provided cost less than the fuel spent in idling a truck."

Comments

CENSORSHIP ALERT!

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out CmdrTaco's recent journal entry:

www.slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco

Slashdot will soon be implementing advanced troll detecting technology.... which means more headaches for legitimate posters.

I don't think the answer to trolls and crapflooders is more censorship. View at -1 sometime, and you'll see the lameness filter doesn't prevent crap, but it does prevent legitimate posts.

Not 20 Hours a day

[Anonymous Coward]

You sir are an idiot.

Truckers may drive for 8 hours then are required by law to take a 4 hour break. If they are caught driving for more then 8 hours (plus a reasonable amount of time to make it to the next truck stop) they have their CDL revoked and are out of work. Please reserch your insults a bit better in the future.

Thank You
PS. No I am not a truck driver, My brother is.

2 books

[mrcparker]

I used to have a dozen drivers on payroll and I used independents and, while my hourly guys kept their books in order and never broke the law, I knew for a fact that the independent guys used to do all sorts of illegal shit just to make a living. From hauling extra-heavy loads to driving for 16 hours straight.

Let me guess, your brother works hourly for a company?

Re:truck idling

[Anonymous Coward]

Try using the correct version of "too" in your sig. You may affect a more badass image if people actually think you can spell better than a second grader. That is just my opinion though.

Re:Wireless Truck Stop AOL

[Carnivorous Carrot]

> Trucks will pull into bays, where flexible
> tubes ending in vents for hot or cold air, and
> touch sensitive screens for Internet access can
> be pulled inside the truck's cab.

Pieces of ass may be ordered and will be lowered into the cab thru the window on the new, patented Cherry Putter(tm) seating platform, based humorously on the vehicles used by telephone pole repair men, known in the vernacular as "cherry pickers".