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Article: Trains, planes, and automobiles: transporting campers TechnoTrends.
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- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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When we are speaking with camps, we ask them: "Do you transport the kids to camp or do their parents drop them off?" If there is a chuckle and a note of glee, then we know that they are one of the camps that has dodged the transportation quagmire. If we hear a silence followed by a sigh, then we will be spending some quality time discussing how software can assist with the transportation task.
When it comes to transportation of campers, it is a bit like dealing with medical information--there is no room for error. A mistake means that a camper has been dropped off at the wrong bus stop or someone forgot to pick up Gretchen, a pleasant ten-year-old girl who just ...