Transportation
David A. Poe
Operator, builder, and problem solver.
I spent twenty years in transportation, from the driver's seat to fleet operations. Now I also build the software that comes out of problems I keep seeing at work.
What I Do
Most days I still run linehaul. The rest is building around it.
I started in the seat, trained other drivers, then moved into running the operation. Nationwide FedEx Ground linehaul is the day job: people, equipment, vendors, breakdowns, safety, and the paperwork that follows. When a process stays messy long enough, I stop talking about it and try to build a fix.
Poe Ventures
Founder
The name my wife and I put on the software, digital projects, and experiments we are working on. One umbrella, so every idea does not need its own company.Making tools
Builds the first version
I use GPT, Codex, Grok, and local models to get a first version standing faster. They help. They do not decide what is worth building.Projects
What I am building right now.
DriverLine came out of linehaul. The Fasting Carnivore came out of my own data. The game is just curiosity. Poe Ventures is the shared name over all of it.
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Shared umbrella
Poe Ventures
My wife and I own it together. Software, digital projects, practical businesses, experiments. Not a big company. Just a home for the work so it does not live in a pile of notes.02
Linehaul trucking
DriverLine
The useful answers usually live in texts, binders, dispatch, and somebody's head. DriverLine is an SMS tool for linehaul so a driver can text a question and get something useful back. It started as a knowledge assistant. It is growing toward communication, workflows, and reconciliation.03
Health and tracking
The Fasting Carnivore
Fasting, low-carb and carnivore eating, and watching my own numbers over time. I am building the site and a tracker for logging fasts and seeing history. I care about the subject. I also wanted another reason to get better at software.04
For fun
The Game Project
I am finally trying to build a game: mechanics, UI, balancing, world, systems, and the harder question of what actually makes something fun. This is me learning, not a studio.Now
Operations by day, projects after
Linehaul during the day. Nights and weekends go to the projects that came out of real problems, or just sounded worth trying.20+ yrs
How I learned the job
A million miles in a truck teaches you how the work actually feels. Training drivers and then running the fleet taught me the rest.AI
Notebook ideas can ship now
I used to leave software ideas in a note. Now I can get a first version standing the same week I notice the problem.Strengths
Linehaul operations
Fleet management
Driver management
Safety and compliance
Breakdown troubleshooting
AI-assisted coding
Local LLMs
First versions
A Little More Human
Not just dashboards and dispatch calls.
- Based in the Central Florida / Orlando area.
- More than a million professional miles behind the wheel.
- Gaming since the early PC days; used to help run a community server.
- Always tinkering: local models, servers, software, hardware, automation.
- I cannot leave a bad process alone.
Builder Mentality
Wouldn't it be cool if... Okay, let's figure out how to actually make it.
That is how I treat a broken dispatch process, a software prototype, or a side project that started as a passing thought.
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