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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....

Anyone who has ever attended a major event knows that getting there is often the easy part. Finding a place to park can be an entirely different adventure. A person may leave home in a great mood, arrive at the destination on time, and then spend the next twenty minutes circling parking lots like a...

Traveling is exciting. Getting there is sometimes another story. Most travelers spend weeks or even months planning flights, hotels, excursions, restaurant reservations, and sightseeing activities. Every detail gets carefully considered. Then the trip finally begins, and an important question suddenly appears: How exactly is everyone getting from Point A to Point B? That question usually...

Most people remember the music, the food, the venue, and the atmosphere at an event. But transportation? People usually only remember transportation when something goes wrong. Nobody talks about the shuttle ride when everything runs smoothly. But let one bus arrive 30 minutes late during a wedding in New Orleans traffic and suddenly transportation becomes...

Transportation is something most people never think twice about until getting from one place to another suddenly becomes difficult. For many individuals with mobility limitations, transportation is not just about convenience. It is about access to healthcare, work, family, daily errands, social activities, and independence. Something as simple as getting to a doctor’s appointment or...

Transportation looks simple from the outside. A passenger needs to get from one place to another. A vehicle shows up. The passenger gets in. The vehicle leaves. Everybody goes about the day. That is the clean version. In real life, transportation has a few more moving parts. Sometimes it is one person heading to the...

There is one thing that can make or break any ride before the engine even starts… timing. Not the vehicle, not the route, not even the destination. Timing. Pickup and drop-off timing sounds simple on the surface. Show up, pick up, drive, drop off. In reality, it is a moving puzzle that changes every single...

There is a moment before every big concert or event where the excitement is high, the playlist is ready, and everything feels like it is about to be a great night. Then traffic hits. Suddenly, what was supposed to be a smooth trip turns into a slow crawl. Brake lights everywhere. Parking lots filling up....