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

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.

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
"

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?!?!