Truck Stops Get Wireless Internet 287
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."
Wireless Truck Stop AOL (Score:3, Funny)
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....
Potential problem (Score:5, Funny)
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 /.
Schweet!!! (Score:5, Funny)
How much to just park a big cardboard box next to a tube?
Re:I want to be a trucker too (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Top 10 Uses (Score:2, Funny)
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:Potential problem (Score:5, Funny)
Look on the bright side. It's bound to raise the intelligence level of much of the posting...
Re:I want to be a trucker too (Score:1, Funny)
Convoy 2003 (Score:5, Funny)
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
"
Re:Wireless Truck Stop AOL (Score:3, Funny)
Alternate title... (Score:3, Funny)
touch sensitive screens (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wireless Truck Stop AOL (Score:1, Funny)
Re:truck idling (Score:3, Funny)
Wireless will become popular ... (Score:2, Funny)
So does this mean... (Score:2, Funny)
Wetnaps? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Potential problem (Score:5, Funny)
so in addition to a blowjob... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:I saw a trucker fill up this morning.... (Score:2, Funny)
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Now I'm depressed ... (Score:4, Funny)
WTF?!?!
Convoy 2003 continued. (Score:3, Funny)
"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 (Score:3, Funny)
338 Gallons to start the rig
2 seconds start time (guesstamation)
So
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 (Score:3, Funny)
Who else would be demanding wireless internet from a truck cab?!?
Re:Drive-ins (Score:3, Funny)
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 (Score:2, Funny)
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!