God I do feel old when I read all this technical jargon & can’t make any sense of any of it
Is anyone else getting a promt that route calulation is failing?
I’ve put sensible truck parameters in but it wont calculate for even routes I’ve done before using the same settings, just tells me to pick a suitable location and bins me out.
What I find most astonishing is the apparent unwillingness of (new) drivers to learn to use, or indeed practice, the fool proof art of map reading. A map always works, doesn’t need to be charged, doesn’t need to be connected to the interweb, doesn’t freeze, and doesn’t tell you to drive under a too low bridge…
For convenience, I use Google maps. Free, and no need for another device to be plugged in/stuck I the windscreen.
2000AD:
Is anyone else getting a promt that route calulation is failing?
I’ve put sensible truck parameters in but it wont calculate for even routes I’ve done before using the same settings, just tells me to pick a suitable location and bins me out.
Yes, once this morning it didn’t work about 8-9am. But since then it’s fine again.
the nodding donkey:
What I find most astonishing is the apparent unwillingness of (new) drivers to learn to use, or indeed practice, the fool proof art of map reading. A map always works, doesn’t need to be charged, doesn’t need to be connected to the interweb, doesn’t freeze, and doesn’t tell you to drive under a too low bridge…For convenience, I use Google maps. Free, and no need for another device to be plugged in/stuck I the windscreen.
Where do you put the map? On the steering wheel? The windscreen? Swapping between distance and reading glasses. Adjusting for traffic and road closures? Just why make the job more difficult than it needs to be.
With a choice of 4 different navigation apps, I can’t remember them all failing.
stu675:
the nodding donkey:
What I find most astonishing is the apparent unwillingness of (new) drivers to learn to use, or indeed practice, the fool proof art of map reading. A map always works, doesn’t need to be charged, doesn’t need to be connected to the interweb, doesn’t freeze, and doesn’t tell you to drive under a too low bridge…For convenience, I use Google maps. Free, and no need for another device to be plugged in/stuck I the windscreen.
Where do you put the map? On the steering wheel? The windscreen? Swapping between distance and reading glasses. Adjusting for traffic and road closures? Just why make the job more difficult than it needs to be.
With a choice of 4 different navigation apps, I can’t remember them all failing.
Its not the case of using a map full time instead of a satnav, its more a case of when (and they do) the satnav fails. You need the ability to be able to read a map.
We have a subby driver, old boy, but he friggen fustrates me as he is always ringing me up saying he is lost and needs directions. He blindly follows the satnav and just refuses to go to the street name on his paperwork and he just goes the end point of satnav directions. Today was a classic…“Im lost” he says, “where are you” says I. “Dont know but the road has trees down it” FFS! 
stu675:
the nodding donkey:
What I find most astonishing is the apparent unwillingness of (new) drivers to learn to use, or indeed practice, the fool proof art of map reading. A map always works, doesn’t need to be charged, doesn’t need to be connected to the interweb, doesn’t freeze, and doesn’t tell you to drive under a too low bridge…For convenience, I use Google maps. Free, and no need for another device to be plugged in/stuck I the windscreen.
Where do you put the map? On the steering wheel? The windscreen? Swapping between distance and reading glasses. Adjusting for traffic and road closures? Just why make the job more difficult than it needs to be.
With a choice of 4 different navigation apps, I can’t remember them all failing.
That is just what I mean, about learning to be a driver, including the skills needed to be a driver. You do not have the map on the steering wheel all the time. You learn where places are, what the topography of the country is. You know where you are going, rather than needing a box to tell you when to take the next turn left…
I can still remember places I delivered to 30 years ago, without a map, or a satnav… most new drivers could not find their way out of the yard , without a sat nav.
I find the image of a driver with a sat nap in front of their face, driving down the motorway, quite frankly pathetic…
Thought you might be interested in a look at a new release to come. Asked them for help and they sent this, then realised it wasn’t released yet.