It’s not about absolution, it’s about being professional and looking out for your own interests, and for many, their “new found career”. One too many FUBARS, or just one of the right kind of FUBAR, and drivers can legitimately be shown the door.
And, as I said in another thread today, there’s fierce competition for every vacancy, employers are overwhelmed with choice, and someone who presents as prepared and professional (which would include having their own pro-Sat Nav) is more likely to be successful in an interview than the next guy who is winging it with a free app.
Yes, far from typical, I just added that for colour, and perhaps to stave off inevitable outlying data comments, such as the “Smoking doesn’t cause cancer, my granny smoked 20 a day and lived to be 105…”
Hundreds of videos of cars crashing and lucky escapes. There are rules about showing death/injury and so the world according to YT is all near misses, and just like in “cartoon world” no one ever dies.
The outliers become the perceived norm.
Didn’t one of the dutch firms get caught for having a driver on daily rest in his unit, while it was on the low loader of one of his colleagues, making good progress toward the port?
I am 99.9% sure I know of the incident you mean, and it is on TNUK somewhere, but nowt to do with sat-nav.
It was a traffic stop of some sort and caught red-handed…*red eyed?
I am using the phone app TomTom Go truck. 85% of the time it is ok. When doing a delivery to DE21 4TS in a 26T rigid,it was instructing me to come off the A50 onto the A516 then onto the A5111 and turn left at DE23 8TU,which had been redesigned so no thru traffic can turn into the street. 4 years ago it was an open junction. Tomtom informed
Forget the TomTom go expert. Mine is repeatedly giving me routes through 7.5T weight limits, single track lanes etc. Vehicle setting make zero difference. Then again I may just have a Friday afternoon one.
quote:. ‘‘It took me down one unsuitable lane on Thursday’’.
And that is where you are going wrong mate, they don’t ‘‘take’’ you or ‘‘send’’ you anywhere …, it’s up to the driver to check first.
You Tube is full of trucks that have been ‘‘taken’’ or ‘‘sent’’ down totally unsuitable lanes by their sat navs.
When you start totally relying on a sat nav, instead of taking it as a route ‘‘suggestion’’ that is when your tits start pointing Northwards upwards.
Just saying.
Yeah sometimes they do.
I use crappy single track roads built for horses all the time on farm deliveries.
I NEVER trust a sat nav,.and do.everything possible to check first before attempting one that I have not used before.
Bridge maps, Google Earth, phone calls to customer (the latter you can not always trust, some will tell you anything to get their stuff there)
It aint a nice feeling getting stuck down a single track road where you need to reverse a couple of miles when you come to an impossible bend.
Yeah dont listen to me, let’s all listen to you instead.
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If I gave you credit for any importance to you or what you think,.I would actually explain that one.
But I dont,…so I won’t.
Football?
Touchy?
Yep, I’m like a bear with a sore arse.
So dont mess with me or I’ll hit ya with me handbag.
Thing with me and sat navs, (like the rest of the guys of my era) I managed 20+ years without one…not invented.
I got one about 15 years ago (a car one) as I already had a good basic knowledge of UK and Euro road network, so it was all I needed I found it a great aid.
I begrudged paying up to 400 quid for a truck one,.as I basically didnt need it.
The inadvertant and accidental occasion you reminded me of (cheers btw ) was at Weston Super Mare as far as I remember, because I went a different way (the back way) to an ind est that I had been before.
I figured the fine would be much less than the price of a 400 quid 'kin truck sat nav…but I heard nothing more about the incident.
An update (if you are really interested that is) the Renault I got in Nov has a built truck type Sat nav.
Thing is I still use my car ‘prat nav’ as you call it,.because some of the roads I use in Cornwall and Devon, it tells me …
‘No suitable route for trucks’,
even though I have been down some of em before.
So pleased I did not chuck away 400 quid.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Many years ago (early to mid 2000’s) as a relatively inexperienced HGV driver I was on TN in my previous incarnation, I read some posts about Sat Navs versus Maps and A-Z’s. One member made some comment about “Learning to do it properly with maps and A-Zs and ignoring these new fangled boxes of silicone and wires”
I thought “Yeah, that’s me! I like to do things properly…”
So I bought a whole bunch of books.
I wish I could remember who it was I paid attention to, because a few weeks further down the line I was cursing their “advice”, finding a whole bunch of residential addresses in a strange town using an A-Z is far too slow for the average operator, so I had to go out and buy a Sat Nav.
^^^^
In the words of Shaggy…‘It wasnt me’'.
A to Zs would be no bloody good for me nowadays anyhow…print too small.
I think my 1st post on here way back in 2007 was sat nav related…(useless piece of info, but just go with it. )
I was on Brit European Trans from Zeebrugge at the time, just bought the sat nav and it kept turning blue and not working.
Took it back to shop, the replacement did the same, so problem was in the truck.
By shear coincidence somebody answered my post on TN, who actually used to drive the same truck and told me to move it in a certain position…it worked.
The truck in question…RIM 073
(Best bloody job I have ever had…stopped trading eventually.)
This is my point…
Truck sat navs aint much use on these roads when you use roads that trucks should not be using…then you meet these guys quite regularly.
I would never rely solely on a pratnav. A decent bridge height map and a bit of prior planning with Google maps does it for me. 10 minutes pre planning can save a great deal of hassle.
…, it’s up to the driver to check first.
) was at Weston Super Mare as far as I remember, because I went a different way (the back way) to an ind est that I had been before.
and told me to move it in a certain position…it worked.
