Originally published at: How Verizon's Cellular Outages Expose Trucking’s Technology Achilles’ Heel - FreightWaves
That ELD mounted in your cab? It needs cellular. Your AI dashcam uploading safety footage to the cloud? Cellular. Real-time GPS tracking? Cellular. Wednesday’s Verizon outage was a reminder that modern trucking’s entire technology stack rides on infrastructure we don’t control, and can’t fix when it fails.
That steering wheel holder you dressed in diapers and sent out to do a man’s job in a mans world just can’t function without his binky… As a driver with 35 years under my belt, retirement can’t get here soon enough…