Technology
Feature App: CardStar
Lighten Your Wallet and move your plastic loyalty cards, reward cards & membership cards to your phone so you
never miss out on a reward, discount, or deal again.
Import Your Cards In Minutes using your phone’s camera for hundreds of national & regional retailers, libraries and
associations. If we don’t support a card, or if your card doesn’t have a barcode, it’s easy to create a custom card.
Browse Thousands of Deals at Your Fingertips including special offers, sales, daily deals & much more from your
favorite places to shop. Save grocery coupons directly to your card – no clipping required. Get deals when & where
you want them.
Check Out In Style and have the cashier scan your cards directly from your phone. Note: this feature is designed to work with
many models of handheld scanning guns, but not self-checkout stations or belt scanners. In the event that a barcode does not
scan, have the cashier can enter your number by hand.
Your Information Stays Private & Secure with advanced features like card backup and passcode lock. Protect your cards from loss
or unauthorized use.
Available on all smartphones
E-Log Recap—by Heather Evans
As many of you know, we are currently in the midst of upgrading our fleet to Peoplenet’s BLU.2 units. These
units are a huge upgrade on the old LCD units, particularly in regards to the e-log functions. We are currently about
halfway through upgrading the fleet.
One of the questions commonly asked, especially since the changes in the US HOS is ‘how do I know how many
hours I’ll get back in 2 days, 3 days etc, when I’m running on my recap’
Here’s how you can tell, if you have a BLU.2 unit. Unfortunately the LCD units will only tell you how many
hours you will get back the next day.
If you touch the e-driver log button, then touch the ‘view HOS’ button, you will be taken to the HOS Summary
Screen. Along the bottom of the screen are several buttons. Amongst them are 1 day, 7 day, 8 day and 15 day view. If
you touch the 1 day view, you will see the graph for today, along with the summary of the hours you have used in all
statuses.
The key to managing your hours when running on your recap are the 7 day and 8 day views. 8 day view will be
used to see what hours you will gain in the US, 7 day for in Canada.
If you touch the 8 day view, you will see something like this:
If you think of your 8 day view as a conveyor that moves from current day to oldest day, as you add a day on
the right, a day falls off on the left. When a day falls off on the left, those hours get put back into your weekly available
hours. In our example above when we reach 10/10/13 at 00:00, 10/10/13 will be added to the right hand side of our 8
day view. This means the oldest day (10/02/13) will fall off, and we will add 13 hours and 25 minutes to our available
hours (you gain total on duty time back). To continue this, if we wanted to know how many hours we would get back
2 days from now (so the 11th) you would go 2 days in from the left (so 10/03/13). So 2 days from now we’ll gain 13 hrs
and 29 minutes.
It’s important to note that this only applies when you have worked more than 7 (Canada) or 8(US) days in a
row with no reset. If you have had a reset in less than 7 / 8 days, this does not apply.
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