UFO

The check we are building

Three questions, answerable while the engine is running:

  1. Does this load clear my floor? Your real cost per mile, against what is actually being offered, including the empty miles to get there.
  2. Where can I park tonight? Before you are too far into the trip to reroute. Bill has had that go wrong more than once.
  3. Where did my money go? Receipts scanned once, not twice, and a plain record you can hand your tax person without a shoebox.

Being honest about status: the cost per mile worksheet below works today. The load check and the parking heads up are in design and not built. They are here so you know what we are aiming at, not so you think it already exists.

One more thing he asked for

Cameras, for exactly one reason.

When cameras came up, Bill was not interested in being watched or in watching anybody. He was interested in one specific bad afternoon:

"I'm not tech savvy and I can learn — I just need help recovering data. Someone hits my truck… I need the footage to send to police on the spot."

That is the whole requirement. Not surveillance. A driver who has just been hit, standing on the shoulder, able to hand over the proof before the story changes. Anything built here starts from that, and from the fact that he would rather stop for a sunset than shoot one while moving: "pull over for a gorgeous sunset if I'm in a safe area."

the white UFO tractor of Bill and reefer trailer in golden evening light
His rig, the green saucer on the door

While the rest gets built

Two things already work,
and the book is out.

Most of what is on this page is in design and not built, and we say so on every card. What works today: the free cost per mile worksheet, the cockpit, and the book the whole method comes from.

The free worksheet The book, out now

Straight with you about what is built

Working today, on sale today, and what is not.

The floor of Bill is be the signal, not the noise. So here is the unglamorous version, in plain order.

Works The cockpit, the worksheet, the ways to reach him, and the checking a number exercises. Live and public. No account, no cost, nothing to install.
Works The radio station. Twelve original tracks on the air around the clock at the radio page. The other four records are written and not recorded.
On sale The book, the App Preregistration Edition and the Glovebox Companion, on Amazon. The prices on the books page are current offers. Preregistration is not refundable, and the app it preregisters you for is not built.
Not built The app. It has not shipped. There is no release date and none is promised. Whether it gets built depends on how many preregistration editions sell.
In design The load check, the parking heads up, memberships, the Flight Deck, the video side. Designed, argued over, and not built. No code exists for these.
Unfinished This website. Bill has not signed off on this copy yet. He is reading it now, and anything he wants changed gets changed.