Tips for buying navigation or GPS system

foxiebaby · #1 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 09:45 AM

Hi, foxie's in da house, and she's looking for some gears to help her idiotic sense of direction. it says navigation and GPS here, so, whatcha got for sexy foxie?

summerbreeze88 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-30-2006, 03:56 AM

I know what's good for you!

Imagine, Mr. T giving you directions lol
It's a Navtones car navigation system produced by Wanderlust Media and Tele Atlas.

Mr T will not only guide u in a boring sick-of-it way, he'll threaten you, for example, “Pay attention to what I’m saying,” he bawls. “Mr. T gonna get you there in one piece … you gonna be there safely, or else!”

lol

a perfect match to tame a fox like yourself lol

countzero · #3 (**permalink**) 06-23-2006, 03:34 PM

Can new GPSs be installed in older versions of BMW (e36)?

peachey · #4 (**permalink**) 06-26-2006, 01:21 PM

Yes you can install gps in any car that you would like. This is a divice that is pick up by signals from diffrent parts of the country that you would be going to.

You might also consider a hand held gps if you have more than one car. This way the expensive is lower and you would be able to take it with you in any car.

kapsee · #5 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 10:26 AM

Trucking companies use GPS devices installed in their vehicles, driven by hired drivers, monitoring their movement from their home office using cellular technology. Later they will handle these GPS applications using Internet.

peachey · #6 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 12:06 PM

Yes, GPS is become very popular. A friend of mine that is a network tech was telling me last night that they are installing the blackberry server and will have the portables with the service techs when they go out on calls. This is so that the company can monitor the movement of the service people to make sure they are where they are to be and not goofing off. I have heard of a lot of companies that have employees on the road using these systems to monitor the location of thier employees.

Guess this is somewhat good for people that do service calls. The company can monitor the lenght of time and if need be contact the closes one if another call comes in. Also finding out who is taking the senic route to get back.

What are your views about this if you were at a place that had this type of set up?

kapsee · #7 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 05:25 PM

I do not think any good company's motive in installing GPS/Blackberry System will to keep an eye on employee movements. That will be extremely demoralizing for the employees. The real objective is to further improve customer service. Once the movements of the field personal become available on a real time basis via the GPS and the computer system, it becomes lot easier for the field/marketing/sales managers to attend any call quicker than before. This scheduling can even be handled automatically when GPS concatenates with the GIS Technology.

peachey · #8 (**permalink**) 06-29-2006, 11:55 AM

Yes in part I agree with you with the location of an employee that is near by to service the customer.

In the same fact, there is a large problem with empoyees that are traveling for a company that are spending way to much time and to much traveling time on thier own. With the cost of gas and traveling expensens companies need to cut cost.

If employess are going from point A to point B, suppose to take 30 miles, the employee is turning in milage for 40, wonder why. Add the extra 10 miles lets say half a year at .53 cents a mile. This is money that the employer is paying out.

Of course companies will not come out and tell the employes all the reasons for tracking them but I am sure that with rising prices, this is one of the reasons.

Knowing the trucking industry, this is one of the reasons with loads not getting to the destinations on time, drivers taking diffrent routes, and those that spend more time in truck stops then driving.

I have to say that if I was an employer with employees on the road, I would have systems put in to assure the quality of my workers.

Time is money in bussiness world.

humpty · #9 (**permalink**) 08-10-2006, 08:59 AM

Good one peachey!

Time is definitely money in the business world,
and I agree with you that employers ultimately would use this system to monitor their employees too, other than just giving better service.

It's like, duh? Of coz they would!

peachey · #10 (**permalink**) 08-11-2006, 04:56 AM

humpty you got that right and if had employees and used them i sure would use it to monitor all activity with my employees.....

slutty87 · #11 (**permalink**) 09-19-2006, 06:22 PM

duh! of course they do, why would they wanna spend so much money on it if it can't help them build a better business with it?

monitoring staffs and making sure they work as they should has always been a key secret to a successful business, it's called "management"

hell if i had a company dealing with a lot of drivers all the time, i'd definitely install GPS to monitor their activities to make sure that my business can survive, and avoid giving free money to those who just detour all the time to waste time!

peachey · #12 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 10:03 AM

See you are up with the gps and what they can do for a company..not sure where this person is at or where they get thier information but ...they need to read more ...

hilliebillie · #13 (**permalink**) 10-11-2006, 08:00 AM

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See you are up with the gps and what they can do for a company..not sure where this person is at or where they get thier information but ...they need to read more ...

what do you mean peachey?

peachey · #14 (**permalink**) 10-16-2006, 03:41 PM

kapsee wrote

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I do not think any good company's motive in installing GPS/Blackberry System will to keep an eye on employee movements. That will be extremely demoralizing for the employees. The real objective is to further improve customer service. Once the movements of the field personal become available on a real time basis via the GPS and the computer system, it becomes lot easier for the field/marketing/sales managers to attend any call quicker than before. This scheduling can even be handled automatically when GPS concatenates with the GIS Technology

This is what I was talking about. Seem to me this person does not read
alot about what going on and does not believe employers use gps for
thier benifit to monitor employess out on the road...

humpty · #15 (**permalink**) 10-17-2006, 04:55 AM

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This is what I was talking about. Seem to me this person does not read alot about what going on and does not believe employers use gps for thier benifit to monitor employess out on the road...

i tink he would change his opinions when he becomes a boss dealing with a lot of drivers, then he'll know why we say that emplyers use gps systems to monitor their employess on the road.