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Re:Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking” by Yakimoto on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:07PM (#10466182)
in 2012 we had this in Afghanistan on almost every single container/pallet/load.
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Re:Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking” by samstave on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @06:51PM (#10467974)
Yeah thats what we originally built at Savi... but there was no security, wifi or any other security in those original tags.

This was the impetus behind us trying to make the modular version.

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Re:Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking” by pnathan on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @02:59PM (#10466514)
I chatted with an engineer from Oracle a couple years ago who talked about those existing in Afghanistan, he was involved in that project somehow.
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Re:Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking” by sdrothrock on Thursday October 29, 2015 @03:54AM (#10469728)
Do you know what they were called/who made them? I had no idea they were actually in production.
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