Pat your the mug living in a country with Trump as president
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I have to concur Pat you do spout some bollox…
Bit rich coming from me I know.
Pat Hasler:
This is not just an ‘Old days’ or ‘bygone days’ thing. 17 years ago I came to this country, I had been driving in the UK and Europe since 1975. I came here and started driving in a totally strange country, there were no satnavs, no smart phones, I had to find places, towns, cities and drops all over a country with no previous knowledge of, I worked and survived and as I have said, if you can’t drive a truck anywhere without a satnav you are not fit to drive that vehicle and need to get a job doing something else.
You seem to to think that just because someone prefers using a satnav that they ‘can’t do without it’. Navigation isn’t some mystical art practised by lorry driving gods, it’s a fairly easy affair that most drivers could do with no problems should Satnavs suddenly disapear, which they won’t.
Pat Hasler:
stevieboy308:
Pat Hasler:
I see you people asking all the time … “What Satnav should I buy ?”
Answer 'None FFS. Each time I hear of some idiot who has thrown money away on a pointless item it makes me laugh. Prime example ;
Monday evening heading north on I-81 in Virginia some guy on the CB asks “Anyone tell me the best route to Lebanon PA ?”
“Yep” some guy replies “Head north on 81 and it turns into I-78, you will see the exit for Lebanon, make a right and follow the main route”
“Thank you” then some other guy chirps in telling him another pointless route, then another and another so I chip in.
"Why are you confusing him ? The first route given was spot on and now you all tell him other routes, the first one is virtually a straight line, what could be easier ? Then the guy who asked the question speaks up “Well the first answer is the same as my satnav says”
“Why on earth would you subject yourself to all of this if you have a satnav ?”
“I don’t trust it”
This is my main point … If you need a satnav to drive a truck you need to find a different job and so does that idiot. I think most just want a nice screen in front of them to show off LOL. As said before look up the location on your phone app and when you get near touch the navigate icon, its doesn’t cost you a thing. Or… Buy a dam map.I don’t use a sat nav, in my job I I very rarely have to get a map out, as it’s a lot of regular places we go, so it’s all upstairs.
But given the fact you’ve said not to waste money on one, then that’s all I need to tell me to go and buy one straight away. All you ever post is ■■■■■■■■, so if you say don’t get one, then that’s good enough for me to go and splash out!
Ha ha, another mug then LOL
You won’t realise just how much of a compliment that is
switchlogic:
'. Navigation isn’t some mystical art practised by lorry driving gods, it’s a fairly easy affair that most drivers could do with no problems should Satnavs suddenly disapear, which they won’t.
Not according to some up this page it’s not 
. Not on multi drop anyway apparantly. How did we manage 
?
Freight Dog:
switchlogic:
'. Navigation isn’t some mystical art practised by lorry driving gods, it’s a fairly easy affair that most drivers could do with no problems should Satnavs suddenly disapear, which they won’t.Not according to some up this page it’s not
No well too many lorry drivers big up this job into the most difficult stressful job on earth, mostly I think to make themselves feel special 
switchlogic:
Freight Dog:
switchlogic:
'. Navigation isn’t some mystical art practised by lorry driving gods, it’s a fairly easy affair that most drivers could do with no problems should Satnavs suddenly disapear, which they won’t.Not according to some up this page it’s not
No well too many lorry drivers big up this job into the most difficult stressful job on earth, mostly I think to make themselves feel special
ha! Yeah maybe you’re right about that
Featured on BBC News tonight about possible laws being introduced to make it compulsory for HGV drivers
to use ONLY truck specific sat navs, due to a spate of incidents of dopey lorry drivers getting stuck in narrow
streets, under low bridges or going over weight limited bridges and causing untold damages…
Some lorry drivers are still using car sat navs apparently, but even with the latest truck specific sat navs a
little common sense ( and the confidence and ability to turn your truck around ANYWHERE ) are ALWAYS
required!
No wonder the general public hate lorries, and getting national coverage on the BBC does nothing to improve
peoples perception of the haulage industry!
Lennoxtown:
Featured on BBC News tonight about possible laws being introduced to make it compulsory for HGV drivers
to use ONLY truck specific sat navs, due to a spate of incidents of dopey lorry drivers getting stuck in narrow
streets, under low bridges or going over weight limited bridges and causing untold damages…Some lorry drivers are still using car sat navs apparently, but even with the latest truck specific sat navs a
little common sense ( and the confidence and ability to turn your truck around ANYWHERE ) are ALWAYS
required!No wonder the general public hate lorries, and getting national coverage on the BBC does nothing to improve
peoples perception of the haulage industry!
The public hate lorries not because of sat navs but because the media love trash talking and making a good pariah out of something minor. People hate a lot of things these days.
Over their (healthy this week according to the latest BBC advice) thin air breakfast they can read what Angus did wrong thanks to YouTube, twotter and face ache and then eat some berries, leave the energy neutral house on bicycle whilst worrying whether their man bag is neutral enough not to upset the sisters who might think you’re taking taking the mick out of feminists.
For lunch make sure they eat a halal wrap so as to show “solodarity” with their religious co workers (no choice if you buy it from Tesco ). Then spend the lunch hour drinking spring water out of toilet paper cups talking crap about the terrible non liberal state of the country that’s been swarmed by thickos - who must have arrived from mars - before going to the gym in Hackney and then inviting your other friends over face ache for a facial, a half glass of alcohol free beer (easy now) and some glamping. What a pack of cry babies.
You wouldn’t see the Vikings or Romans get on like this. Chop some wood, drink a gallon of booze, bonk a few birds, storm over and nick a country. Bad ■■■.
Freight Dog:
You wouldn’t see the Vikings or Romans get on like this. Chop some wood, drink a gallon of booze, bonk a few birds, storm over and nick a country. Bad ■■■.
Tho to be fair when it came to nicking countries both the vikings and Romans were lightweights compared to the British
Here here
All this arguing over navs and maps, youre like a load of girls…without either to hand i can navigate by the stars, real old school ruffy stuff…no… ok then, i cant really 
… 
Those franchise outlets at Msa,s that sell phone accessories and truck sat navs will be rubbing their hands tomorrow morning , with all of us stampeding in to pay £500 for one , think of the sales commission they will make .
Can I have the anti BBC one, bridge bashers club nan nav .
Must admit, when I was on lorries, I preffered a map.
Satnav should be treated as an aid to find somewhere, NOT the be all and end all.