Pilot’s near-death experience spawns weather app for truckers

A white tractor-trailer travels in rain storm next to a cell phone screen shot of the Drive Weather app.

In 2014, Paxton Calvanese launched a unique aviation weather app called Wx24 Pilot. In the ensuing years, he developed a similar road weather app called Driver Weather. With constant refinements and updates, it’s now a popular tool for truckers.

Calvanese loves hearing the positive feedback, Some truckers have told him it’s a life-changer. “It probably saved a life or two somewhere along the way,” he said. 

Perhaps that’s a fitting reward, given that Calvanese’s own near-death experience was the...

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