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veen  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 13, 2016

    So I got a new job as a Proposal Writer for a transportation telematics company.

That sounds cool, but I can't really think of an example proposal. What kind of projects do you have?





akif  ·  1893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you interesting fleet management and tracking tech, you can visit routingo

goobster  ·  3209 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fleet management systems. You attach a GPS tracker to all the vehicles in your fleet, and then before a trucker drives off, he does his vehicle inspection. The results of that inspection get logged into a cloud system. Then his Dispatcher can check in throughout the day on where the driver is in his route, if there has been an accident, or if they need to re-route the driver somewhere else, etc. Also tracks fuel consumption, driving style, etc.

So if you are a City Motor Pool, for example, you buy our stuff to keep track of the maintenance on all your vehicles, as well as where your vehicles are at any point in time.

To buy that stuff you have to put it out to public bid. That's where I come in. I see the bid, write up a proposal for the salesdude, who then takes it in and does the deal with the City. (Kinda. That's the short version, but basically it.)

veen  ·  3208 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's pretty cool. I've had some lectures about systems like that. What kind of geo backend do you guys use for those services?