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TECHNONEWS * USA - Cell phones make truck tracking easy
GPS technology to help reduce smog
Oakland,CA,USA -The Inside Bay Area, by Erik N. Nelson -29 June 2007: -- Port officials announced Thursday that a new program with wireless phone company Sprint/Nextel allows shipping companies to keep much closer track of containers trucked out of the port... The new system, called Port Truck Tracker, installs specialized software in cell phones carried by truckers that can track them to within 30 feet using a Global Positioning System. It also will allow truckers to report events such as the delivery of a container by pressing a single button on the phone... The new system can be environmentally helpful in that it allows trucking companies, shipping companies and the port to identify bottlenecks where idling trucks generate emissions and direct traffic to alternate routes...
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