FIXED-LOCATION RADIOS ADDED TO FORKLIFTS: FREIGHT TERMINAL NOW MORE EFFICIENT Equipped with a portable radio and tablet computer, Chris, a loading dock manager for a trucking company located in the upper midwest, has three and a half hours every morning to orchestrate a beehive of activity and load dozens of trucks with palletized freight. His concerns include ensuring the safety, accuracy, and efficiency of the 10 or so forklift operators buzzing around the hundreds of palettes of freight waiting to be loaded through the 36 doors on the dock. In order to get the trucks filled and on their way every morning, reliable communication with the forklift operators is paramount. Unfortunately, the portable radios assigned to the forklifts often went missing, were dropped, or were damaged. No

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