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

Wireless Truck Stop AOL

[CptChipJew]

BigTrux91: "hey, ASL?"
XoRigChikoX: "43/f/truck stop, u?"
BigTrux91: "lol, same"
XoRigChikoX: "im just takin a break, haulin a shipment of lawn chairs from kentucky to los an-ghi-lees"
JenLiveCam9113: "Live sex cams, click here!"
BigTrux91: "wanna cyber?"
XoRigChickoX: "mmm, show me ur exhaust pipe"
BigTrux91: "::steps out of truck, removes pants::"

sorry....

Re:Wireless Truck Stop AOL

[TopShelf]

Since most are already used to catching virii at truck stops, I don't think it will be that big a change...

Re:Wireless Truck Stop AOL

[Anonymous Coward]

If they have beastiality porn and country music (aka redneck noise) then they will have everything truckers like, other than the illegal drugs.

Potential problem

[jabbadabbadoo]

Truck drivers may become geeks, hence reducing the efficency of our infrastructure.

So, in a few years time, if that package you ordered takes a loooong time to get delivered... you know why. The friggin' truck driver is reading /.

Re:Potential problem

[aborchers]

So, in a few years time, if that package you ordered takes a loooong time to get delivered... you know why. The friggin' truck driver is reading /

Look on the bright side. It's bound to raise the intelligence level of much of the posting...

Re:Potential problem

[Telastyn]

Seems like truck driving would be a great geek job... I mean it's probably one of the few jobs other than programming that involves long stretches of time sitting on your ass, alone, in the middle of the night.

Schweet!!!

[mcgroarty]

Sounds like all I need!

How much to just park a big cardboard box next to a tube?

Re:I want to be a trucker too

[EnderWiggnz]

lol...

yeh, if your idea of a good job is working 20 hour days cracked out on meth, keeping 2 books and being on the road for months at a time, its great.

w00t

[CausticWindow]

And all the Slashdot truck drivers rejoice!

(I've been a truck driver, but I don't think there's many of us here)

Navitron Overdrive

[haa...jesus christ]

Good, now truck drivers can run Windows Update for their Navitron Overdrives (semi-obscure Simpsons reference).

Top 10 Uses

[grub]

Top 10 Uses for Internet at Truckstops

#10 IM'ing the "ol' lady" back home in the trailer park.
#9 IM'ing the "ol' lady" at the next trailer park up the road.
#8 Checking if bobshaircuts.com in Topeka will treat your mullet with respect.
#7 pr0n, pr0n, pr0n!
#6 Ordering cigarettes from marlborough.com.
#5 Ordering beer from schlitz.com
#4 Getting refill blades from hairybackrazors.com
#3 Ordering truckstop hookers.
#2 Checking subscription at maxim.com
drum roll
#1 Checking the NRA homepage!

Re:I want to be a trucker too

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there a downside?

Convoy 2003

[AtariAmarok]

It was on slow AOL that worked like hell

With a sysadmin pullin' logs

Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And Jimmy, both bandwidth hogs

We's headin' for bear on Tee-One-Oh
'bout a mile outta Cupertino
I says "Pigpensource, this here's Cyber Duck"
"And I'm about to plug the USB, you know?"

('cause we got a little ole convoy networkin' thru the night)

(Yeah, we got a little ole convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)

(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)

By the time we got into Tulsa-town we had 85 trucks they say
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
With Hillary from the RIAA

Cuz Pete used his hard disk as an MP3 dumper

They even had a bear in the air
I says "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck"
"We about to go a-huntin' bear"
ye, 'bye
"

Alternate title...

[pen]

Company to Deploy Docking Stations for Trucks

touch sensitive screens

[bathmatt]

Truck drivers, internet, porn and touch sensitive screens, need I say more?? Hope they have a "sneeze guard" IYKWIM

Re:truck idling

[cybermace5]

2,000 miles eh? So while starting the truck, they have to refill the tanks several times?

Wireless will become popular ...

[phaetonic]

so they can go in the back trailer and, and um... surf with privacy.

So does this mean...

[pulse2600]

...that "lot lizards" will become a thing of the past? Why should truck drivers pay scraggly women who hang out at truck stops for services when they can get much better looking pr0n without leaving the driver's seat? Will they include a tube for restroom facilities, or at least a box of tissues for cleanup afterwards?

Wetnaps?

[withak53]

They may want to include wetnaps to wipe off the keyboard after the truckers are done.

so in addition to a blowjob...

[bongoras]

you can now see live webcam streams of blowjobs?

Re:I saw a trucker fill up this morning....

[pheared]

He might have been buying just enough to get a free shower.

Yeah, I've run into truckers and I think they'd even turn down a free shower.

I think it might disturb their natural protective coat, much like the oils in your hand when you touch a baby bird.

Sounds cool

[dfn5]

Now how do I get a truck stop placed next to my house? 56K dialup sucks.

Now I'm depressed ...

[Estevan]

You mean to tell me that a 290lb trucker with a dragon tatoo on his back, a well groomed mullet, and a girlfriend named Candy in each Flying J accross the midwest will have broadband WiFi before I do?

WTF?!?!

Convoy 2003 continued.

[AtariAmarok]

Convoy 2003 continued:

"So we shot the line, we went for broke, with a Beowulf cluster of trucks.

And eleven long-haired Friends of Stallman in a chartreuse iMac running Linux" Convoy....

Breaker Breaker Rubber Tux. Yeah? etc etc etc.

Re:truck idling

[TheViffer]

Gee .. and lets see here ...

338 Gallons to start the rig
2 seconds start time (guesstamation)

So .. we need a fuel pump that can do 608,400 Gallons/hour!!!! Or at least one with "burst mode" that can do 10,140 Gallons/Minute

Ok so lets visualize this. Take four fire trucks pumping 2500 gallons/minute (thats a lot of water). Now take those four trucks filled with diesel and pumping with all that force for 2 seconds into the block.

That is the force you would need to get enough fuel to start a semi.

Don't think so.

Now we know where the former dot bomb coders are

[AnalogDiehard]

They found jobs driving trucks.

Who else would be demanding wireless internet from a truck cab?!?

Re:Drive-ins

[Tenebrious1]

How many people are going to get that reference?

Man, I hated those things. Terrible idea. The speaker sat right next to dad's ear, so of course he'd turn down the volume to a point the rest of us couldn't hear a thing. Much better when they started broadcasting the audio track on the radio(back in the 80's?)

Ah, the memories of drive-ins with my high school sweetheart... we'd back into the spot, fold down the rear seats, be nice and comfy with pillows and blankets... and halfway through the show we'd get around to popping the back hatch to watch the movie.

Re:Wireless at Truckstops

[Carnivorous Carrot]

> Dont assume based on stereotypes.

Bobby (played by Danny Devito) in Hoffa: It's a place where all the old, retired truckers can sit around and fart, drink beer, and lie about all the waitresses they fucked.

Hoffa: Don't hurt yourself!