Transportation
David A. Poe
Operator, builder, and problem solver.
Twenty years in transportation — driver, then driver trainer, then fleet and operations. These days I run nationwide FedEx Ground linehaul and build software for the problems I keep running into 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: driver management, fleet maintenance, vendor coordination, compliance and safety, cost control, and the breakdown that happens at two in the morning. When a process stays messy long enough, I stop complaining about it and try to build a fix.
Poe Ventures
Founder
The company my wife and I own together. Software, digital projects, practical businesses, and experiments all live under one name, so every idea does not need its own company behind it.Making tools
Builds the first version
I use GPT, Codex, Grok, and local models to get a first version standing in days instead of months. 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 came out of thirty years of playing them. 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, and whatever comes next. Not a big company — just a home for the work so it does not live in a pile of notes.02
Linehaul trucking
DriverLine
In linehaul, the answer a driver needs is almost never in one place. It is scattered across text threads, dispatchers, binders, managers, and somebody's memory. DriverLine is an SMS-based operations platform I am building for that problem: a driver texts a question and gets something useful back. It started as a driver knowledge assistant and is growing toward communication, driver workflows, and reconciliation.03
Health and tracking
The Fasting Carnivore
Fasting, low-carb and carnivore eating, and paying attention to my own numbers over time. I am building the content site alongside a dedicated tracker for logging fasts and seeing the history in one place. Part of it is that I care about the subject. Part of it is that it keeps pushing me on software, data visualization, and AI-assisted development.04
For fun
The Game Project
I have been gaming since the early PC days, and years ago I co-owned and ran a Counter-Strike server and the community around it. Now I am finally trying to build one instead of only playing them: 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 that 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 taught me how to explain it. Running the fleet taught me what it costs when it goes wrong.AI
Notebook ideas can ship now
I used to leave software ideas in a note and forget them. Now I can get a first version standing the same week I notice the problem.Strengths
Linehaul operations
Fleet & driver management
Safety and compliance
Breakdown troubleshooting
AI-assisted development
Local LLMs
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; co-ran a Counter-Strike server and community.
- Always tinkering: local models, servers, hardware, automation.
- I notice a bad process and immediately start rebuilding it in my head.
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. Most of it never leaves the notebook. Some of it turns into something real.
Contact
If you want to talk operations, a project, or just compare notes.
Send a note and it comes straight to me. I read everything, and I answer anything that is not a sales pitch.