Infringement of our Rights...Where does it stop
My Wife informed me that a very large shipper that we had wanted to haul for is requiring all trucks to download and run an APP that is supposed to make the transfer of the paperwork easier. However it also gives the shipper the ability to track my truck. My son says that he read that C.H.Robinson has an app called MACRO point and it is blantanly an APP to track your truck, but the app being in your personal phone is going to track you ALL of the time. I understand the brokers and shippers wanting to know where the load is, but by succombing to these tracking devices you now have more people with data about everything you do. I am a little surprised that they want this level of knowledge as I feel it would really tie them to legal obligations in an accident. It is my opinion that by allowing the ELD to come to be we have opened the flood gates to these other things and we will be no more than puppet slaves to these people. If we all made more profit the ELD "might be" tolerable. This other stuff is over the top. I beleive the average person doesn't think this crap through enough before signing up. There are way to many small fleet guys that are so under funded that they don't care. it is strickly profit driven and what that driver is subject to isn't anything they worry about. Drivers just don't stop and think with out doing. My trucks run GPS for my own internal use, I can see where my truck is without interefering with what he is doing. But it stops there. These apps on your phone will track that driver every minute of his life. Its easy for me to not haul for them at this point, but I feel like a grain of sand and this stuff is going to overtake us all with todays level of complacency.
Please lets all think this through before it gets any further! I have asked everyone for years to STOP and think...What do we as a group want this Industry to look like? Where are going to draw the line? Are we going to allow these Mega Broker/Shippers have this much intrusion into every minute of our lives?
Art Pfluger
I apologize for my poor spelling
Please lets all think this through before it gets any further! I have asked everyone for years to STOP and think...What do we as a group want this Industry to look like? Where are going to draw the line? Are we going to allow these Mega Broker/Shippers have this much intrusion into every minute of our lives?
Art Pfluger
I apologize for my poor spelling