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Going to a concert sounds simple enough. Get in the vehicle. Drive to the venue. Watch the show. Get back in the vehicle. Go home. Then 50,000 other people have exactly the same idea. At Alert Transportation, serving the Greater New Orleans Area, concerts present some interesting transportation challenges. Major events can temporarily change traffic...

Driving across New Orleans can occasionally require a little more strategy than the GPS suggests. The map says twelve minutes. New Orleans says there’s a second line on St. Charles, construction three blocks over, a festival nobody remembered was happening, and somebody has temporarily parked a delivery truck in the only lane still moving. Now...

A wedding day has a schedule. At least, that’s the theory. There is a ceremony time, a reception time, a photography schedule, hair and makeup appointments, dinner service, introductions, dances, cake cutting, and somewhere in the middle of all of that, dozens or sometimes hundreds of people need to physically get from one place to...

Weddings have schedules. At least they do on paper. The ceremony starts at 4:00. Pictures happen at 5:00. Cocktail hour begins at 5:30. Dinner follows. Everybody dances. Somebody eventually requests a song that hasn’t been played at a wedding since 1997. Simple enough. But when the ceremony and reception are held at different locations, another...

One of the things I enjoy most about working in the tourism industry is seeing people experience Louisiana for the first time. Whether it’s hearing live jazz in the French Quarter, tasting authentic Creole cuisine, cruising through a cypress swamp, or simply taking in the architecture of New Orleans, every visitor deserves the opportunity to...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about business events, it’s this: everyone notices transportation only when it doesn’t go according to plan. If every guest arrives on time, meetings start when they’re supposed to, and everyone gets back to the hotel without a hitch, transportation almost disappears into the background. That’s exactly how it should...

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the transportation business, it’s that a clock can be either a best friend or a worst enemy. Most people think transportation is simply about getting from Point A to Point B. That certainly sounds simple enough. Plug an address into a GPS, turn the key, and hit the...

After spending years in the transportation business, one thing has become very clear: people usually remember the beginning and the end of an event. If guests spend forty-five minutes driving in circles looking for parking before a wedding, conference, festival, or corporate event, that’s how the day starts. If everyone is standing around at the...

Anyone who has ever tried organizing transportation for a large group knows that getting everyone to the same place at the same time can sometimes feel more challenging than the event itself. One person is running late. Someone else is lost. Another person somehow ended up at the wrong location entirely. A few people are...

By Milton Walker Jr., Owner of Alert Transportation Technology has changed the transportation industry quite a bit over the years. Today, a person can order dinner, groceries, a television, and a ride from a smartphone without ever leaving the couch. In some cases, all four might arrive at the front door within the same hour....