"Tablet computers are handy and portable. But it's unlikely that an off-the-shelf version of an Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy will be mounted in a commercial truck anytime soon. That's because the trucking industry operates amid a thicket of regulations that restricts the types of communications devices that can be used in the cab.
Enter the Tablet, Minnetonka-based PeopleNet's newest computer system for commercial trucking, and the first on-board computing system that can be removed from a truck's cabin, allowing drivers to communicate both in and out of their rigs."
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