Tugboats Jokes

This technician's company uses satellite communications to send and receive messages from tugboats moving barges up and down major rivers. Each day, by 2 p.m., the tugboats send data on the day's activities to the company's traffic department.At least that's how it's supposed to work."I got a call from our traffic department saying they only got data from about half the boats, and would I check on it?" technician says.He calls the satellite company, but the technician there says there's no problem on his end.Meanwhile, the traffic department calls again -- they're still not getting messages from the missing boats."So I called the boats and got them to re-send the messages, and they came through," says our tech. "The problem apparently cleared itself up."But he isn't quite satisfied. "I called the satellite company back to see what happened, and what we could do if the problem recurred."Satellite company's technician doesn't know what happened more...