4-WAY TEST
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Focus on The 4-WayTest
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Stu Sutton
President,
GPSNet Technologies Inc.
Subject: "SHAZAM! Preparing the Next
Generation of Entrepreneurs"
Larry Powe from the Detroit Rotary Club chaired the meeting
Stu was a past winner of the Business Excellence Award from the Chamber of Commerce. He is also an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918).
Stu Sutton produces GPS software for the trucking industry.
He represents a new breed of entrepreneurs who create companies by "visioning" the use of the latest technology in traditional industries.
"Using GPS technology and dispatch software, all of our customers share the same dispatch tool which allows them to share access to a much larger trucking fleet," said Sutton.
"When one trucking company doesn't have the capacity or a truck in the vicinity of a potential customer, the technology allows them to find another trucking company which can accommodate that customer.
"In effect, we've taken small regional trucking companies across North America and made them into one huge company," said Sutton. "By subscribing to our service, they're able to say 'yes' to more customers, cut down on empty loads and become more efficient by running full more often."
Ref: http://www2.canada.com/windsorstar/news/business/story.html?id=f45657a8-1443-4277-ab07-06b12e417f3e
Online and in real time, the transportation technology manages several key components of the trucking industry including customer management, fleet management, order entry, street level routing and directions, automatic ETA (estimated time of arrival) calculations, GPS cell phone tracking and communication, rating, billing, driver pay, integration with accounting software, to name a few. An order entered into the system, for example, will automatically calculate trip mileage, the cost to the customer based on a rate structure and provide real time updates on the truck’s location and ETA. If the truck is running late, customers are automatically notified. Even the smallest trucking companies associated with the system have access to state-of-the-art technology.
Ref:
http://www.busexec.com/april08/index.php?link=Techno
System-Human Integration:
... In the course of this technology transfer however it is vital that we keep in mind the importance of the information that exists in the minds of the human dispatchers and controllers and the effect on the quality of the lives of the drivers of the long haul equipment. These people communicate intensively with the customers and base their decisions on a more "nuanced" status of the system, taking into account un-written traditions and preferences, in expressing instructions... many systems built on "assist" decision making rather that "directly decide" are a partial answer to these issues
Ref: https://www.cirrelt.ca/DocumentsTravail/CIRRELT-2008-40.pdf
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Easter Monday, FAMILY DAY PROGRAM
Rotarians brought family members to this meeting. Children and grandchildren were the focus for the meeting entertainment.
The children and grand-children, along
with the members, were entertained by our own
Bill Wilkinson with some interactive
sing-a-longs in celebration of the Easter
holiday.
Easter Monday in Canada is the Monday following Easter Sunday. Easter Monday is listed in the Canada Labour Code as a Easter Monday Holiday and is celebrated as a statutory holiday in most parts of Canada
Easter is a time of springtime festivals. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.
Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox.
Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of fertility, and in coloured Easter eggs, originally painted with bright colours to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.
Ref: http://www.holidays.net/easter/story.htm
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