Archive for August, 2009

Shoe Storage: Keeping Your Footwear Organized August 25th, 2009

My friend Al says one of the reasons he is glad he is a man is that he does not have to wear red shoes every time he dons a red shirt, nor blue shoes when he puts on his blue suit. Still, he has a pretty good number of shoes in his bedroom. He has a few formal dress shoes, two black and one brown. His casual shoes are of the same colors, the boring black and brown. I saw two loafers. No black this time, but there is still a brown. The other is beige. It is his running shoes that fill up his shoe storage rack. I counted six, mostly white with black and gray patterns, but there is a gray with orange accents, and a blue and white combination. There is also a pair of green flip flops.

He organizes his shoes quite well. Like shoes stay together, with the formal footwear staying at the top of the cubbyholes, followed by the casuals. The loafers follow, while the runners stay at the bottom, along with the lone flip flop. He says he never varies their parking spaces, so that even if he is still groggy from sleep, he knows exactly where to get the shoes he wants.

Trailer Tracking August 9th, 2009

The equipment, tools, and even factories of national and trans-national businesses are often distributed over a wide range of location. This is especially true for the trans-nationals who may have their headquarters in the United States and yet have construction projects in the Middle East. Even electronic equipment manufacturers often set up factories in China or the Philippines to save on labor costs.

This means, however, that their assets are spread all over the country or even all over the world. For such businesses, and for their haulers, a trailer tracking device would provide substantial help in monitoring the movements of their shipments or their equipment. A company taking delivery from out-of-town or out-of-the-country plants or suppliers can monitor the location of its goods at anytime. This will help the warehouse manager prepare for their arrival. Independent haulers can use this device to monitor their trucks. They can easily determine if their drivers are idling, or taking a route other than the prescribed direction. It would also certainly help a contractor to know how many hours the company’s heavy equipment are operated. This will help in budgeting for equipment fuel, and of course, billing their clients.

For better business management and bigger profits, therefore, it is necessary to install an equipment that would help managers be aware of virtually everything happening to their mobile assets