No wonder he got stuck-12 tonne overweight!
Partly because of sites like this posting about anything truck related…
You could’ve miles from anywhere but someone will end up filming you being stuck.
But also more down to businesses sending people to places in an artic instead of a rigid.As make more drops more money using an artic .
And not generalising but lot of younger drivers even younger office staff rely on Google maps.
And blindly believe it
If google maps was ever to go offline the country would grind to a halt.
It’s combination of things really. It obviously happened years ago but was nobody there with a smart phone to post and gloat and get likes
I got stuck on Monday at 4 am, looking for a delivery found the road, couldn’t find the place, ended up at a dead end, reversing in the pitch dark and rain, than a sharp blind side around some roadworks and onto a roundabout, took me forever as I had to keep getting out to see where I was going. Delivery was just off the roundabout but not marked.
However found myself in awkward spots pre sat nav also
Got to take you up on that car sat nav comment.
I used one for last 15 years, including in Europe, never had any bother, they are only a problem if you totally rely on them as has been said time and time again on here.
After saying that, last year I got a truck with a factory fitted TomTom sat nav.
Last week it told me to go up a dodgy side street in Dewsbury, I got out and looked, and decided…no chance am I going down there, and got a suitable alternative route to where I was going from a local lady…very nice too btw.
This week I was going to Wheddon Cross from Tiverton.
There is an impossible left turn in WC down to an ind est and the cattle market.
There is a route off that A road, along country lanes, turning right, then doing an arc which brings you to that turn, but it is facing you straight over that cross roads where you would otherwise turn left…I knew that route well btw.
Anyway this is where the truck sat nav with all the right pre.settings wanted to ‘send’ me.
The left turn on that screen is the impossible left, and if I was to go straight on after failing to turn left in order to turn round…afaik there are no turning places and it goes to a wt limit on the Minehead road.
So I can see now why those who totally rely on sat navs…get stuck or end up in dodgy situations.
They aint gospel, they are advisory !
But you can’t always tell can you, there are businesses in little tiny lanes and other places yo look and think no problem only to across an obsticle.
I suppose so mate, but if somewhere is in a ‘little tiny lane’ and you are driving an artic, would alarm bells not ring?
Surely you would do more stringent checks BEFORE you got to that stage of getting stuck, or are you blaming your sat nav for that occasion?
I know what you are saying though…sh happens, I aint saying I aint been in ‘situations’ in the past by any means…I have.
Most of those situations in my present job is farmers assuring me on the phone of artic access only to find not so much when I get there…that is if I manage to get there on the crappy single track roads up to a farm…
Hi folks, I am new here and this my first post so treat me nicely 
. There is no way that trucks used to get stuck in tight locations anywhere near as much as they do nowadays.
I only drove trucks for a few years while training for a medical career in my mid-twenties (late 90’s) to earn some extra cash and moonlighted occasionally after qualifying. Much of my driving involved moving heavy Plant on low-loaders to quarries but also delivering full loads of fertiliser to farms, some of it on flatbeds and some Tautliners. (Sheets and a ■■■■■■ farm, yuck).
It was a case of planning your route with maps. If needed I would have my route written up on paper and pinned to the sun visor so I could follow it. I think when planning like that as opposed to following a sat-nav you soon learned all the landmarks and the tell-tale/warning signs that you often miss while using a sat-nav; which I now rely on in my car and also takes me down some silly routes.
I never proceeded if the road looked iffy without rechecking the map, walking a mile down the road to check it out or asking a local postie etc. The CB was also a great tool back then. I’d shout where I was, where I was heading, and you would always get a nice experienced local head giving you some guidance that you would sometimes have a drink with later on. It was actually fun, the comradery and banter was great and the help and support was always there from someone.
Nowadays, it has become a more isolated and automated job with a heavy reliance on slightly flawed technology. A lane near me has seen two trucks pulled out by a wrecker and numerous others spend hours reversing back down it in the last few months alone. It has become far more regular in the last 5 or so but I cannot ever remember a driver ever attempting it before. I cannot get my head around why any driver would even get that far without alarm bells ringing, let alone continue. I spent hours with one poor guy helping him to get out as he was new to driving and was worried it would be his last trip for that company.
Also back when – I am not that old honest, there was a serious amount of ■■■■ take. If made a hash of roping and sheeting, got stuck somewhere or took the wrong turning etc it took a while to live it down as there was no one to blame but yourself. You didn’t have the sat-nav to blame it was all on you. The banter was great though and I miss that in my current career. I remember slightly scraping a caravan once, my only incident, and turning up to the truck the following week to find ‘I love caravanning’ stickers stuck to it. I was also two sizes smaller then - a size 10, and often drove in a shortish skirt, imagine turning up at a HSE site or trying to deliver to B&Q dressed like that today. My walk around checks were important not only to appease VOSA but also to rub off the potentially embarrassing banter. Good days that I never appreciated enough at the time.
I would categorically say the amount of trucks stuck in tight lanes today is significantly more than it used to be. Trucks are a bit more plastic and fragile mind which also doesn’t help. The beautiful F16 6x4 I drove moving heavy plant probably helped to widen a few lanes for you.
Anyway, respect guys. Keep up the good work ■■
Hiya Becky…
Got to agree with you on most if not all of that.
In those days drivers used initiative, today with many of them if their sat nav stopped working they’d be sh scared to leave the yard.
Ask one of these guys directions how to get to a new drop they have been to and they can’t tell you, cos all they do is sit back and follow the sat nav, taking no notice of what is aroundcthem.
I went for about 2 months when mine gave out, when a couple of em found out you would swear I’d done some kind of magic trick.
After saying that I would not be without mine today, they have changed the job a hell of a lot…as long as you use them properly.
Btw just like you I also used to drive back then in a short skirt, …but I don’t like to talk about it. 
Hi Robroy,
Lovely to meet you and yes I know what you mean. Those Sat Navs are useful in cities and I wouldnt be without mine now. It also means you dont have to buy a new a new OS map for every area you travel too, or even more annoying, lending one out which you never got back and then ended up going there again and having to buy another one.
I dont drive trucks now so the sat-nav issue but i think if i was i would still be relying on some additional information. If you are heading to the darkest depths of somewhere you know the roads are going to be unforgiving so check up the route before you rely on it.
Was the skirt leather, Latex of something a bit more everyday?
Ooh leather definitely …but I caught my reflection and stopped wearing it.
The rigger boots and lumberjack shirt were just not the right accesories for it.
He only wears it now for his regular nights out when he frequents those well known haunts of masculinity-Wetherspoons 
Oh so you’ve seen me then?..you should have came and said hello.
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Used to wear big boots with mine, it works, so I am sure you must have looked very… lets say pretty
Really! He must be fighting guys off if he dresses like that in a Weatherspoons
I just got fed up with a life of having to fight women off, so I needed to put them off somehow.
I have been affected by the issues discussed in this thread.
I demand access to the TN helpline where I expect to find professionally trained staff who can help me process the feelings of suicidal tendencies that have arisen as a result of this thread not containing a warning on its graphic seck-shual content
Aye but hang on, you aint seen me in me leather mini skirt yet.
The imagined-pictorial abuse continues… You’ll be getting billed for my therapy
Come on, not all Weatherspoons look that bad.