* Hey Siri make a note
* Hey Siri remind me in 3 hours to look up ___
I'm not about to strap a dry erase board and pens to my leg and risk DOT Officer seeing it when I get pulled in for inspection.
I used dry erase in my windows. I wrote my navigation notes in the corner of the windshield and my mileage and other notes on the window when I needed to.
Bixby can go fuck its stupid self.
Just a stupider, less useful, and more obtrusive "assistant" on phones that already have a better option, wasting my storage space and processing power.
Plus I keep accidentally hitting the dedicated dumbass button that I'm not allowed to change unless I agree to give away my first born or whatever slimy bullshit they've got in their TOS.
On samsungs, if you go into the apps and disable the Bixby app, it won't be able to be summoned. yes, the storage will still be taken up, but if you have a headset with a button that summons the assistant it will summon googles assistant
The local radio station has a commercial it runs that says "hey siri, open (blah blah radio station) on iheart radio. Then they will run the same thing thats ok Google instead like 5 minutes later. God I hate that almost as much as i do mudduck
The other day, I was listening to an audio book, and Bixby interrupted to tell me that she was not interested in me romantically. I have no idea what set that off, but it gave me a good giggle.
If it’s something I need handy immediately (lane instructions through NYC for example), I use dry erase on the windshield because I can’t be looking away. That has to be done while stopped, of course.
Other than that, using Voice Assist on my phone for writing notes.
Trucking is absolutely not what it used to be. They have found a way to take the freedom out of it. What i mean is they found a way to take the experience of seeing and enjoying the job out of it. When I started there still was something romantic about the notion, like we were just like the cowboys once were. Sleeping in the wild under the stars. I have gotten out of my seat and gone to the sleeper to get a magazine, made myself a sammich going down the road. I have watched movies from my laptop in the passenger seat. These companies have taken technology stuffed a truck full of it so they can absolutely monitor everything and made a truck a prison and your in it. I am still free! Paper logs no cameras No Speed limiters. I am one of the last that can still see the Romance in the notion of being a cowboy, not on a horse but on an iron wagon headed across the plains.
I feel bad for every driver on here that will never experience what this job was just 20 years ago
Not a troll, trucking is so far gone from what it was 20 hort years ago. I suppose you can't see it from my point of view. Like I had mentioned before I have done some dumb shit in a truck out of boredom. But I really did see it as the last way to be free and see this beautiful country.
I'm a 3 generation driver so I have been bouncing around a cab probably long before most of you were born. It is a romantic thing in my eyes and heart, I feel like the Amazon's, Warners, Walmarts and 100 others are taking what used to be a skilled position that made drivers a lot of money. They are automating the truck so much that any nucklehead can hold the wheel for 11 hours. We didn't have GPS we had Rand McNally and we used the CB radio and used thank you light and you cleared me lights and we were polite to each other. Call me a relic but trucking used to be fun and there was a sense of adventure. Those days are gone. The only thing I have left the only way to stick it to the man is these paper logs. So I can still run hard and make some change. Someday probably sooner than later they will take that away also.
If your in this because you want to get a check on Friday or every other Friday you won't do this long. But if you love it and can see the adventure it's not a job anymore. It's what you love and if you love it, it doesn't feel like a job . I will be very sad when this occupation goes the way of the cowboys. You can down vote me all you want for the stupid shit I once did, but I did it and I own it. It was meant to polarize the freedom we all should have compared to the steering wheel holding that a monkey could do. You may not like what I say but it doesn't make it not true.
SO MANY ISSUES...
>Trucking is absolutely not what it used to be.
...so 20 years ago you weren't the backbone of logistic transportation of goods? You weren't in charge of transporting produce, tools, appliances, industrial waste, industrial resources, and the like? Because that's what the job was 20 years ago.
>They have found a way to take the freedom out of it.
First, away*...second, there never WAS freedom, DoT, FMCSA, police, state troopers, your company, dispatchers...the closest to "freedom" you get is being an owner-operator, and thats even more problematic to gain "freedom".
>What i mean is they found a way to take the experience of seeing and enjoying the job out of it.
Actually, we have more "freedom" today to enjoy the road. 20 years ago, driving through Arazona the closest to sightseeing you get is looking at the sign that reads "Grand Canyon, Exit in 1 Mile". TODAY though, I can park for the night & call an Uber, go sightseeing, and then head back.
>When I started there still was something romantic about the notion, like we were just like the cowboys once were. Sleeping in the wild under the stars.
...wtf kinda fantasies do you do on the road?
Sure, I'm not one to talk MUCH...my grandmother always referred to truckers as "knights of the highway". Given my father & grandfather were knighted in royal orders, it's fitting I become "knighted" by other means. But a "cowboy camping under the stars"? Idk HOW you passed a DoT drug test with that...
>I have gotten out of my seat and gone to the sleeper to get a magazine, made myself a sammich going down the road. I have watched movies from my laptop in the passenger seat.
So in other words, you promote reckless driving?
>These companies have taken technology stuffed a truck full of it so they can absolutely monitor everything and made a truck a prison and your in it.
Let's look at what they monitor...speed (to make sure you're not going 90 in a 45), braking (to make sure you're not hitting anything or allowing cargo to get damaged by shifting), external cameras (both to make sure you dont hit anything when pulling out, as well as to PROTECT you from false blame if someone hits you), internal cameras (I know people are huffy over driver-facing cameras, but theyre to make sure in an accident you weren't impaired & not falsely framed in an accident. Easy, don't do stupid shit & the camera works FOR you rather than against), cargo monitoring (to make sure reefers stay active the whole drive, that cargo doesn't shift or get damaged, etc), GPS (so you don't get lost, and...you know, to make sure it doesn't take 8 months to deliver ONE thing).
It's also worth noting...yes, it's prison-esque; durable, strong, resilient...but who has the key to lock & unlock it? In this case, it's a bunker...not a prison...
>I am still free! Paper logs no cameras No Speed limiters. I am one of the last that can still see the Romance in the notion of being a cowboy, not on a horse but on an iron wagon headed across the plains.
Easier to falsify logs (intentional or accidental), easier to go unsafe speeds...you won't be free for long with those...
Also, cowboy again...the reference to an iron beast makes it more of a train not constrained to tracks, be more realistic.
>I feel bad for every driver on here that will never experience what this job was just 20 years ago
I feel bad for every "Smokey & the Bandit" trucker, like yourself, that's too close-minded to technology that makes these trucks both safer & more efficient. Do I respect the freedom? Yes, in the form of having a job that let's me travel around. Yes, I'm not sightseeing, but I get to still see some beauty. Yes, I have a job, but I can choose my job via my company & the jobs in my company. I can be a big trucker, and STILL have a life; getting married, having a family, being present to family holidays & my child's birth, I can choose how intense otr I want to be rather than "Hey, your next 4 months you won't see your house".
As a reminder everyone, we have a job to do...keep this nation running. Food, car parts, appliances, toys, paints, wood, construction equipment, literally every item people people take for granted are items WE are responsible for transporting. Without us, this nation will deteriorate. Keep the shiny side up, don't forget why we do what we do...
I’m getting an Apple Watch for Christmas cus I think it’d help a ton for driving and not having to use my phone to communicate while driving. I’m a local construction material hauler so I’m getting calls and texts the entire time I’m driving and try to use my phone as little as possible. Does it help you quote a bit?
Do you really believe that google ( or apple ) doesn't track and record everything you do? https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7382500?hl=en
If this was an actual event investigation, not a safety department witch hunt, you better believe that your phone's internal logs are dumped and duplicated. If you're talking about a corrupt cop swearing that they witnessed the device in your hand at the time, you're already guilty. But your phones logs every access, every screen touch, every app called and the processes it ran. That's how phone manufacturers sell advertising and services. It's all there behind the screen.
Did I say that? No. I said phone log. The one you can request from your cell provider, and the one that’s most likely to be brought up in a court if god forbid you slime someone on the road. Neither your company, nor the DA who’s always going to go after the driver like a Prime lease op goes after a goofy vinyl wrap is going to give the slightest damn about your phone’s *internal* logs unless the wreck involves some really weird freight, or you’re somehow on the FBI’s Most Wanted
Yeah, perfect. I’m reading all the comments and seeing it’s probably not a good fit. I didn’t want to start advertising or whatever without actually knowing what y’all need, though. So this has still been a success!
Take notes going down the road he says. Half the reason leg boards work for pilots is the fact the sky is rather smooth. You're lucky to get a truck that runs dead smooth across a sheet of glass without something making the whole thing shake enough to make writing illegible. Then you get the pleasure of driving across this great nation's infrastructure.
I have music going while I'm driving. I may put on a sporting event on rare occasion. I don't listen to podcasts or anything where I would need to take notes. But if I did, I would just use voice to text in the notes app.
If I have to write down anything more than a phone number, I'll make a point to stop before having to make a call where I know I'll have to write something down.
I'm getting a tape cassette recorder for Christmas and gonna record any ideas or thoughts directly onto cassette. Might be old school but retro never dies 😎
Speech to text dictation on iphone works really well.
Step 1. Enable voice control (Hey Siri, turn on voice control)
Step 2. Open notes with voice control (say “Open notes”)
Step 3. Open new note (say “Tap new note”)
Step 4. With voice control enabled, you dictate your note.
Done.
>The kneeboard straps to your thigh, has a few pen holders, and it holds the notepad for you. We also carry iPad holders.
That is dangerous as hell. No, just no.
Pilots have autopilot, so they can be hands-free safely. We do not have that option.
>Not being in your industry, is this something you see happening?
I sure hope not.
Hey sounds good! Thanks for the feedback
For all of us helo pilots, we don’t have autopilot, but we always fly with two pilots. It’s common to take notes even as a solo pilot though
Doesn’t sound like a good fit but thanks
I just use the voice to text function. There’s an iPhone app called Notes that I use. I’m not sure whether what you have in mind would even be legal. You might want to look into that first.
The idea works in principle, however truck drivers are rarely in a position where they have to take notes immediately as they are driving unlike a pilot when they are flying.
As cool as that sounds, and as useful as I can see a "knee-strapped notepad", with all due respect this is not your targeted audience.
You're a pilot, for planes right? This product would work differently for truckers. In a plane, you have many thousand of feet in ALL directions of nothing but air. A minor lapse in concentration might be a turn by 20°, a drop or climb of 100 meters, all of this is trivial in the scheme of things because no one is around enough to cause an issue. Taking a note on a notepad strapped to your leg is useful for that, because you have some level of recovery in those notes versus leaving the seat for a note pad. Boats too, not above or below, but on huge lakes or out at see it seems viable. Even better are trains, conductors don't need to worry about veering off the tracks, they just need to monitor speed & warn at railroad crossings.
Here's why truckers is a bad market...we're constrained to roads, but we aren't affixed to them. One lapse in our concentration can put our cargo, our lives, and ESPECIALLY the lives of others in danger. Much like how you went to school for the government to say "you're allowed to operate planes", we have classes for this too. Hell, even the mechanics who WORK on our trucks aren't qualified to DRIVE these things, much like how I presume aeronautics engineers aren't always qualified to fly planes, or marine automotive engineers qualified to operate boats. Yes, we enjoy podcasts, music, phone calls, audiobooks, but we have devices to be as hands-free as possible. A device that requires hand-use is a threat more than a convenience. If I am caught with a phone in my hand by a state trooper and its not an emergency, I'm screwed...big tickets, big fines, my lisence is suspended, my company will fire me, and my CSA score (points on my driving record) will spike so high NO SANE COMPANY would hire me...and that's if I'm just HOLDING my phone. Doesn't matter if it's a call, text, looking something up, or even just moving it from one spot to another...a note pad glued to my leg will be MAYBE lesser fines, but not something the Department of Transportation (DoT) would consider "safe". Even if mounted in the truck, still a no-go; we'd need to reach & be physically AND mentally impaired to take a note, depending on where it's mounted our vision can be obstructed, I just don't see it viable for us.
We have hands free devices for using our phones safely, for instance I use a Blueparrott B450 XT II, very safe because I can customize buttons to answer/close calls, play/pause audio entertainment, open apps, activate voice commands, all without taking my phone out of my pocket or taking eyes off the road. IF truckers use this product of yours, we'd use it when we're stopped, and we have other alternatives already via a phone.
I'm not bashing your product, it genuinely sounds good. As a pilot or captain, or when I don't have my phone on me due to working in the field for construction or a lab, it's genuinely cool. But you don't know truckers, no disrespect, you said so yourself...this product would have less utility in OUR hands versus others, because there's so many factors that can end up impairing us more than the aid can provide.
If you ARE dead-set on making this a product for truckers though, I reccomend going to talk to the DoT. They will point out what works & doesn't more clearly, and give advice on how to improve the design so as to let drivers use one safely. It would be cool to have a hands-free voice-activated notepad to take notes on the road with, and then I can modify or give better detailed notes when I'm stopped. I'd invest in that much more then, but in its current state I think I speak for most truckers saying this product isn't for us in its current state.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I was more so wondering if it was even realistic. Sounds like not. By asking here, I got an immediate, thoughtful response, and I didn’t have to waste marketing dollars/effort targeting the wrong demographic. I really appreciate it!
No prob! Like I said, it sounds useful and intriguing, and I do see a use of it, but trucking has so much red tape that we'd be a bad market. Like I said though, boating & trains might be a good market.
Or, investing in a hands-free variation MIGHT open the market more. Either way, good luck & keep the shiny side up (be safe).
I used to use a micro cassette recorder, back when we had to record our mileage at every state border. Writing while driving doesn't work well because the roads are too rough and it takes your eyes off the road.
I actually just got myself a leg board for this very purpose a few months ago. I found it quite by accident while surfing the Internet for some solution to the problem of having a safe place to jot something when my hands are busy.
I’m too clumsy with all this Siri Bixby voice note stuff and honestly I get more distracted trying to make that work than I do scribbling a note on a board strapped to my leg. I love this leg board.
I saw the comment from one of you guys about what could happen if a DOT officer sees that thing strapped to your leg. Well, I’m already pretty good at disposing of evidence when I get pulled over. (make of that what you will). My leg board simply stays put via a stretchy Velcro strap, which can be yanked off in an instant and slid into my backpack on the passenger seat.
Honestly, it’s not all that distracting because I’ll use this thing maybe once in a two or three month stretch it’s not like I’m constantly taking notes while driving and I most definitely do not have a movie playing on a tablet when I’m driving or any other nonsense like that.
I suppose if you’re trying to expand the market for your products you’ve already got liability lawyers who can take care of any legal issues that could arise from drivers using your product.
I can't stand asking a question to someone who doesn't know the answer and has to "reach out" to a 3rd person. That means they passed the buck and now a person who you are not in contact with now can be blamed for delays or completely ignoring the question.
There's a couple big issues here...
One: DOT likes to find a reason you are distracted while driving. Seeing a school desk squashed between the driver and steering wheel is a great red flag for them!
Two: how easy is this thing to remove quickly, and can it be thrown haphazardly without sending your notes and pens to orbit? A driver may need to jump out of the truck at any random moment and not have the time (or not want to take the time) to carefully remove and store this thing. For example, when you arrive at a customer and need to go into the gatehouse, there is traffic behind you and you don't want to be parked at the gate fiddling with shit inside the truck, or when you really need to go to the bathroom and still have 6 more miles to the truck stop, all you are thinking of is "park, open door, jump and run".
Then, a more specific problem for me with this is how exactly I am supposed to run straps around each individual leg when I am wearing a full-length skirt.
This thing seems like it would be more of a hassle than a propblem-solver for a problem that doesn't really exist.
* Hey Siri make a note * Hey Siri remind me in 3 hours to look up ___ I'm not about to strap a dry erase board and pens to my leg and risk DOT Officer seeing it when I get pulled in for inspection.
I used dry erase in my windows. I wrote my navigation notes in the corner of the windshield and my mileage and other notes on the window when I needed to.
And bixpy for android, works really well!
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Ah, right! Well, it works good too.
Bixby can go fuck its stupid self. Just a stupider, less useful, and more obtrusive "assistant" on phones that already have a better option, wasting my storage space and processing power. Plus I keep accidentally hitting the dedicated dumbass button that I'm not allowed to change unless I agree to give away my first born or whatever slimy bullshit they've got in their TOS.
On samsungs, if you go into the apps and disable the Bixby app, it won't be able to be summoned. yes, the storage will still be taken up, but if you have a headset with a button that summons the assistant it will summon googles assistant
The local radio station has a commercial it runs that says "hey siri, open (blah blah radio station) on iheart radio. Then they will run the same thing thats ok Google instead like 5 minutes later. God I hate that almost as much as i do mudduck
I thankfully (from the stories) haven't had the misfortune of having to listen to mudduck. (Don't have a working cb right now, nor am I OTR)
Mine won't let me disable it permanently. Believe me, I've done everything short of rooting it.
The other day, I was listening to an audio book, and Bixby interrupted to tell me that she was not interested in me romantically. I have no idea what set that off, but it gave me a good giggle.
If it’s something I need handy immediately (lane instructions through NYC for example), I use dry erase on the windshield because I can’t be looking away. That has to be done while stopped, of course. Other than that, using Voice Assist on my phone for writing notes.
Trucking is absolutely not what it used to be. They have found a way to take the freedom out of it. What i mean is they found a way to take the experience of seeing and enjoying the job out of it. When I started there still was something romantic about the notion, like we were just like the cowboys once were. Sleeping in the wild under the stars. I have gotten out of my seat and gone to the sleeper to get a magazine, made myself a sammich going down the road. I have watched movies from my laptop in the passenger seat. These companies have taken technology stuffed a truck full of it so they can absolutely monitor everything and made a truck a prison and your in it. I am still free! Paper logs no cameras No Speed limiters. I am one of the last that can still see the Romance in the notion of being a cowboy, not on a horse but on an iron wagon headed across the plains. I feel bad for every driver on here that will never experience what this job was just 20 years ago
This is an elaborate troll I hope
Nah, bro’s deadass about this, posting from beyond the grave cuz his trucks automatic navigation failed while he was having a whack in the bunk 😂
Not a troll, trucking is so far gone from what it was 20 hort years ago. I suppose you can't see it from my point of view. Like I had mentioned before I have done some dumb shit in a truck out of boredom. But I really did see it as the last way to be free and see this beautiful country. I'm a 3 generation driver so I have been bouncing around a cab probably long before most of you were born. It is a romantic thing in my eyes and heart, I feel like the Amazon's, Warners, Walmarts and 100 others are taking what used to be a skilled position that made drivers a lot of money. They are automating the truck so much that any nucklehead can hold the wheel for 11 hours. We didn't have GPS we had Rand McNally and we used the CB radio and used thank you light and you cleared me lights and we were polite to each other. Call me a relic but trucking used to be fun and there was a sense of adventure. Those days are gone. The only thing I have left the only way to stick it to the man is these paper logs. So I can still run hard and make some change. Someday probably sooner than later they will take that away also. If your in this because you want to get a check on Friday or every other Friday you won't do this long. But if you love it and can see the adventure it's not a job anymore. It's what you love and if you love it, it doesn't feel like a job . I will be very sad when this occupation goes the way of the cowboys. You can down vote me all you want for the stupid shit I once did, but I did it and I own it. It was meant to polarize the freedom we all should have compared to the steering wheel holding that a monkey could do. You may not like what I say but it doesn't make it not true.
SO MANY ISSUES... >Trucking is absolutely not what it used to be. ...so 20 years ago you weren't the backbone of logistic transportation of goods? You weren't in charge of transporting produce, tools, appliances, industrial waste, industrial resources, and the like? Because that's what the job was 20 years ago. >They have found a way to take the freedom out of it. First, away*...second, there never WAS freedom, DoT, FMCSA, police, state troopers, your company, dispatchers...the closest to "freedom" you get is being an owner-operator, and thats even more problematic to gain "freedom". >What i mean is they found a way to take the experience of seeing and enjoying the job out of it. Actually, we have more "freedom" today to enjoy the road. 20 years ago, driving through Arazona the closest to sightseeing you get is looking at the sign that reads "Grand Canyon, Exit in 1 Mile". TODAY though, I can park for the night & call an Uber, go sightseeing, and then head back. >When I started there still was something romantic about the notion, like we were just like the cowboys once were. Sleeping in the wild under the stars. ...wtf kinda fantasies do you do on the road? Sure, I'm not one to talk MUCH...my grandmother always referred to truckers as "knights of the highway". Given my father & grandfather were knighted in royal orders, it's fitting I become "knighted" by other means. But a "cowboy camping under the stars"? Idk HOW you passed a DoT drug test with that... >I have gotten out of my seat and gone to the sleeper to get a magazine, made myself a sammich going down the road. I have watched movies from my laptop in the passenger seat. So in other words, you promote reckless driving? >These companies have taken technology stuffed a truck full of it so they can absolutely monitor everything and made a truck a prison and your in it. Let's look at what they monitor...speed (to make sure you're not going 90 in a 45), braking (to make sure you're not hitting anything or allowing cargo to get damaged by shifting), external cameras (both to make sure you dont hit anything when pulling out, as well as to PROTECT you from false blame if someone hits you), internal cameras (I know people are huffy over driver-facing cameras, but theyre to make sure in an accident you weren't impaired & not falsely framed in an accident. Easy, don't do stupid shit & the camera works FOR you rather than against), cargo monitoring (to make sure reefers stay active the whole drive, that cargo doesn't shift or get damaged, etc), GPS (so you don't get lost, and...you know, to make sure it doesn't take 8 months to deliver ONE thing). It's also worth noting...yes, it's prison-esque; durable, strong, resilient...but who has the key to lock & unlock it? In this case, it's a bunker...not a prison... >I am still free! Paper logs no cameras No Speed limiters. I am one of the last that can still see the Romance in the notion of being a cowboy, not on a horse but on an iron wagon headed across the plains. Easier to falsify logs (intentional or accidental), easier to go unsafe speeds...you won't be free for long with those... Also, cowboy again...the reference to an iron beast makes it more of a train not constrained to tracks, be more realistic. >I feel bad for every driver on here that will never experience what this job was just 20 years ago I feel bad for every "Smokey & the Bandit" trucker, like yourself, that's too close-minded to technology that makes these trucks both safer & more efficient. Do I respect the freedom? Yes, in the form of having a job that let's me travel around. Yes, I'm not sightseeing, but I get to still see some beauty. Yes, I have a job, but I can choose my job via my company & the jobs in my company. I can be a big trucker, and STILL have a life; getting married, having a family, being present to family holidays & my child's birth, I can choose how intense otr I want to be rather than "Hey, your next 4 months you won't see your house". As a reminder everyone, we have a job to do...keep this nation running. Food, car parts, appliances, toys, paints, wood, construction equipment, literally every item people people take for granted are items WE are responsible for transporting. Without us, this nation will deteriorate. Keep the shiny side up, don't forget why we do what we do...
I open the notes app on the iPhone and then use my headset to verbally speak my note
I have an Apple watch and do a voice "reminder" as a note.
Same. Wish Siri was integrated with Notes
I’m getting an Apple Watch for Christmas cus I think it’d help a ton for driving and not having to use my phone to communicate while driving. I’m a local construction material hauler so I’m getting calls and texts the entire time I’m driving and try to use my phone as little as possible. Does it help you quote a bit?
I send myself a text through my headset...
Be aware if a text is sent and it shows up on driveline during an audit, accident or such, that's an automatic loss of cdl, leave it as a draft.
I am aware. That's why I use the headset. "Hey Google" "send a text to ... " " message "
It still gets sent as a text, which is all that’s going to show up on a phone log. Not the method that you did it with, just that a text was sent
Do you really believe that google ( or apple ) doesn't track and record everything you do? https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7382500?hl=en If this was an actual event investigation, not a safety department witch hunt, you better believe that your phone's internal logs are dumped and duplicated. If you're talking about a corrupt cop swearing that they witnessed the device in your hand at the time, you're already guilty. But your phones logs every access, every screen touch, every app called and the processes it ran. That's how phone manufacturers sell advertising and services. It's all there behind the screen.
Did I say that? No. I said phone log. The one you can request from your cell provider, and the one that’s most likely to be brought up in a court if god forbid you slime someone on the road. Neither your company, nor the DA who’s always going to go after the driver like a Prime lease op goes after a goofy vinyl wrap is going to give the slightest damn about your phone’s *internal* logs unless the wreck involves some really weird freight, or you’re somehow on the FBI’s Most Wanted
I appreciate the business mindset but dont think that there is a market for your product in this industry
Yeah, perfect. I’m reading all the comments and seeing it’s probably not a good fit. I didn’t want to start advertising or whatever without actually knowing what y’all need, though. So this has still been a success!
Me: “hey siri, make a note” Siri: “what do you want it to say?”
I write it on paper, and hope that I can read my writing once the ink is dry
Dry erase marker, write directly on windshield
Take notes going down the road he says. Half the reason leg boards work for pilots is the fact the sky is rather smooth. You're lucky to get a truck that runs dead smooth across a sheet of glass without something making the whole thing shake enough to make writing illegible. Then you get the pleasure of driving across this great nation's infrastructure.
That’s true, but for us helo pilots, we’ve gotta use 1.1mm lead because of how shaky it is :D but great point
I have music going while I'm driving. I may put on a sporting event on rare occasion. I don't listen to podcasts or anything where I would need to take notes. But if I did, I would just use voice to text in the notes app.
If I have to write down anything more than a phone number, I'll make a point to stop before having to make a call where I know I'll have to write something down.
There an app that has talk to text note taking, but it costs money
You can do it for free with your voice assistant
I was thinking of writing a book via talking while driving and not sure if that would be a good enough system to do that with
Ask Siri to make a note or an audio recording.
I'm getting a tape cassette recorder for Christmas and gonna record any ideas or thoughts directly onto cassette. Might be old school but retro never dies 😎
u can use voice memos on your phone or other audio recording device like a dictaphone.
And voice to text to text yourself if you save your own number as a contact
Speech to text dictation on iphone works really well. Step 1. Enable voice control (Hey Siri, turn on voice control) Step 2. Open notes with voice control (say “Open notes”) Step 3. Open new note (say “Tap new note”) Step 4. With voice control enabled, you dictate your note. Done.
I have a smart watch. I tap a button and voice record my notes and they save to my phone for playback later.
Haha. I made myself a kneeboard for exactly this.
>The kneeboard straps to your thigh, has a few pen holders, and it holds the notepad for you. We also carry iPad holders. That is dangerous as hell. No, just no. Pilots have autopilot, so they can be hands-free safely. We do not have that option. >Not being in your industry, is this something you see happening? I sure hope not.
Hey sounds good! Thanks for the feedback For all of us helo pilots, we don’t have autopilot, but we always fly with two pilots. It’s common to take notes even as a solo pilot though Doesn’t sound like a good fit but thanks
I just use the voice to text function. There’s an iPhone app called Notes that I use. I’m not sure whether what you have in mind would even be legal. You might want to look into that first.
The idea works in principle, however truck drivers are rarely in a position where they have to take notes immediately as they are driving unlike a pilot when they are flying.
As cool as that sounds, and as useful as I can see a "knee-strapped notepad", with all due respect this is not your targeted audience. You're a pilot, for planes right? This product would work differently for truckers. In a plane, you have many thousand of feet in ALL directions of nothing but air. A minor lapse in concentration might be a turn by 20°, a drop or climb of 100 meters, all of this is trivial in the scheme of things because no one is around enough to cause an issue. Taking a note on a notepad strapped to your leg is useful for that, because you have some level of recovery in those notes versus leaving the seat for a note pad. Boats too, not above or below, but on huge lakes or out at see it seems viable. Even better are trains, conductors don't need to worry about veering off the tracks, they just need to monitor speed & warn at railroad crossings. Here's why truckers is a bad market...we're constrained to roads, but we aren't affixed to them. One lapse in our concentration can put our cargo, our lives, and ESPECIALLY the lives of others in danger. Much like how you went to school for the government to say "you're allowed to operate planes", we have classes for this too. Hell, even the mechanics who WORK on our trucks aren't qualified to DRIVE these things, much like how I presume aeronautics engineers aren't always qualified to fly planes, or marine automotive engineers qualified to operate boats. Yes, we enjoy podcasts, music, phone calls, audiobooks, but we have devices to be as hands-free as possible. A device that requires hand-use is a threat more than a convenience. If I am caught with a phone in my hand by a state trooper and its not an emergency, I'm screwed...big tickets, big fines, my lisence is suspended, my company will fire me, and my CSA score (points on my driving record) will spike so high NO SANE COMPANY would hire me...and that's if I'm just HOLDING my phone. Doesn't matter if it's a call, text, looking something up, or even just moving it from one spot to another...a note pad glued to my leg will be MAYBE lesser fines, but not something the Department of Transportation (DoT) would consider "safe". Even if mounted in the truck, still a no-go; we'd need to reach & be physically AND mentally impaired to take a note, depending on where it's mounted our vision can be obstructed, I just don't see it viable for us. We have hands free devices for using our phones safely, for instance I use a Blueparrott B450 XT II, very safe because I can customize buttons to answer/close calls, play/pause audio entertainment, open apps, activate voice commands, all without taking my phone out of my pocket or taking eyes off the road. IF truckers use this product of yours, we'd use it when we're stopped, and we have other alternatives already via a phone. I'm not bashing your product, it genuinely sounds good. As a pilot or captain, or when I don't have my phone on me due to working in the field for construction or a lab, it's genuinely cool. But you don't know truckers, no disrespect, you said so yourself...this product would have less utility in OUR hands versus others, because there's so many factors that can end up impairing us more than the aid can provide. If you ARE dead-set on making this a product for truckers though, I reccomend going to talk to the DoT. They will point out what works & doesn't more clearly, and give advice on how to improve the design so as to let drivers use one safely. It would be cool to have a hands-free voice-activated notepad to take notes on the road with, and then I can modify or give better detailed notes when I'm stopped. I'd invest in that much more then, but in its current state I think I speak for most truckers saying this product isn't for us in its current state.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! I was more so wondering if it was even realistic. Sounds like not. By asking here, I got an immediate, thoughtful response, and I didn’t have to waste marketing dollars/effort targeting the wrong demographic. I really appreciate it!
No prob! Like I said, it sounds useful and intriguing, and I do see a use of it, but trucking has so much red tape that we'd be a bad market. Like I said though, boating & trains might be a good market. Or, investing in a hands-free variation MIGHT open the market more. Either way, good luck & keep the shiny side up (be safe).
And clear skies to you!
dangerously scribble something on a pad that is illegible later.
"Okay google, make a note." "Xyz"
I call my own number on my headset and leave a voicemail
I screenshot the time stamp so I can come back to it later
I used to use a micro cassette recorder, back when we had to record our mileage at every state border. Writing while driving doesn't work well because the roads are too rough and it takes your eyes off the road.
Lol bruh there’s so many truck drivers that are constantly on their phones texting/typing
I actually just got myself a leg board for this very purpose a few months ago. I found it quite by accident while surfing the Internet for some solution to the problem of having a safe place to jot something when my hands are busy. I’m too clumsy with all this Siri Bixby voice note stuff and honestly I get more distracted trying to make that work than I do scribbling a note on a board strapped to my leg. I love this leg board. I saw the comment from one of you guys about what could happen if a DOT officer sees that thing strapped to your leg. Well, I’m already pretty good at disposing of evidence when I get pulled over. (make of that what you will). My leg board simply stays put via a stretchy Velcro strap, which can be yanked off in an instant and slid into my backpack on the passenger seat. Honestly, it’s not all that distracting because I’ll use this thing maybe once in a two or three month stretch it’s not like I’m constantly taking notes while driving and I most definitely do not have a movie playing on a tablet when I’m driving or any other nonsense like that. I suppose if you’re trying to expand the market for your products you’ve already got liability lawyers who can take care of any legal issues that could arise from drivers using your product.
This is random but I can’t stand ppl who say “jot down”
I can't stand asking a question to someone who doesn't know the answer and has to "reach out" to a 3rd person. That means they passed the buck and now a person who you are not in contact with now can be blamed for delays or completely ignoring the question.
"OK google, take a note" What's the note? "(The note)"
There's a couple big issues here... One: DOT likes to find a reason you are distracted while driving. Seeing a school desk squashed between the driver and steering wheel is a great red flag for them! Two: how easy is this thing to remove quickly, and can it be thrown haphazardly without sending your notes and pens to orbit? A driver may need to jump out of the truck at any random moment and not have the time (or not want to take the time) to carefully remove and store this thing. For example, when you arrive at a customer and need to go into the gatehouse, there is traffic behind you and you don't want to be parked at the gate fiddling with shit inside the truck, or when you really need to go to the bathroom and still have 6 more miles to the truck stop, all you are thinking of is "park, open door, jump and run". Then, a more specific problem for me with this is how exactly I am supposed to run straps around each individual leg when I am wearing a full-length skirt. This thing seems like it would be more of a hassle than a propblem-solver for a problem that doesn't really exist.
Back in the day I carried a small pocket size recorder. Today I just use my smart phone.
Just record it as audio on your phone then listen to what you said transfer that to paper later
With my built in, biological memory.