The RoadPro company recently asked members of its driver advisory council and others to weigh in on pieces of auxiliary equipment they’d always dreamed of that hadn’t yet been offered out there — with a focus on things that would make various downtime activities more fully integrated into the long-haul experience, as it were.
In some ways, I was reminded of the myriad of solutions so many readers have come up with for a variety of things over the years, most recently perhaps several chronicled in this story in part about Chris Barbeau’s light-sensitive pager to detect dock-light status changes and wake you up.
In any case, I thought you’d enjoy the RoadPro piece this weekend, and how about the question: What piece of trucking gear could you use most effectively that, well, just hasn’t been invented yet? Weigh in via the call button below or, desktop users, call 530-408-6423 for our podcast voicemail line.
RoadPro’s “Dream Gear for Truckers” narrative follows:
In 1899, Charles Duell, commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, is supposed to have said, “Everything that can be invented already has been invented.”
Duell was clearly shortsighted and just as clearly not a truck driver. The history of trucking is one of steady technological advancement, and there’s no reason to think it’s reached an end. Trucks themselves have improved and so has the gear that truckers take on the road with them.
Given that history, it’s only natural that drivers imagine new gear and equipment that would make their jobs easier.
