June 2, 2011                                                    TAC Bits and Pieces  
IN THIS ISSUE
Your Driver Can Accept Credit Cards
Training Video
Hint of the Week: POI Routing
Driver Communication Centers
Clear Computing Help Desk
Joke of the Week
Cartoon of the Week
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Your Driver Can Accept Credit Card Payments
Imagine this ... Your driver gets paid and everyone gets notified in one step.

Install the Innerfence iPhone/iPad app for FREE. 

Innerfence, connected to your authorize.net account,  turns your driver's  iPhone or iPad into a secure credit card terminal.  Transactions can be keyed in or swiped on an optional iPhone reader, and the customer can sign directly on the screen! 

For more information, watch this week's videos.
Training Video
This week's training videos demonstrate how to accept credit card payments on a smart phone using  Innerfence.

Hint of the Week: POI Routing
POI routing is the brain child of Charlie Howard of CALLAHEAD portable toilets in New York City. He has experienced drivers (50+ trucks) and terrible traffic conditions.  Fixed routing rapidly becomes useless because of changing traffic. 
Charlie came up with the idea to put the service stops in a suggested order, but supply technology to take the driver from where they are to a selected next stop, e.g., Point of Interest.

You see this in the new Google map feature within TAC.  Once you set the latitude and longitude (lat/long) for a service location, it is included on all emails and reports. By using a smart phone or tablet (iPad) you can touch the lat/long on the display and Google maps displays the location where you can request turn-by-turn driving directions from your current location to the selected stop.

Currently these are written, but we expect in the near future to have verbal directions (like a Garmin) that works on a smartphone or tablet.

 Click here for more information on this feature.
Cut Costs with Driver Communication Centers 
Using iPhones or iPads to support paperless operations can take 15 - 25% off your operating costs!

Click on these links to give your drivers:
Clear Computing Help Desk

The fastest way to get support is our online Request Help link at the upper right hand corner of our home page.

 

When you create a new ticket, your issue is saved and we get notified.  We will let you know as soon as we are working on your issue.   

 

Click Here for more information on the process...

Joke of the Week:  Old Accountants...

 - Old accountants never die, they just lose their balance.

- Old archers never die, they just bow and quiver.

- Old bankers never die, they just lose interest.

 

- Old bookkeepers never die, they just lose their figures.

- Old bosses never die, much as you want them to.

- Old cashiers never die, they just check out.

 

- Old chauffeurs never die, they just lose their drive.

- Old electricians never die, they just lose contact.

- Old farmers never die, they just go to seed.

 

- Old investors never die, they just roll over.

- Old lawyers never die, they just lose their appeal.

- Old limbo dancers never die, they just go under.

 

- Old professers never die, they just lose their class.

- Old policemen never die, they just cop out.

- Old quarterbacks never die, they just pass away.

 

- Old sculptors never die, they just lose their marbles.

- Old sewage workers never die, they just waste away.

- Old wrestlers never die, they just lose their grip.


Funny Cartoon of the Week

Life

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