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Thread: Don't blindly follow your GPS

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPCZippo View Post
    But my questions is don't they make trucker specific maps and GPS? where they show weight and high limits?
    Most places have signs that tell you if there is a weight or height limit at the start of the road.

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    Excellent advice!! I was driving a "SAG" car, following one of our drivers. For over an hour I wondered where he was going!
    I had reviewed the directions given and looked at Streets & Trips and discovered that the map programs were going to try
    to send us to a wrong location -30 miles from where we were supposed to be. The driver was blinding following the GPS -
    he never ever looks at a map. I followed him right to the WRONG location. Fortunately there were no unexpected weight
    limit or no trucks signs along the way.
    For the next few weeks he left his GPS at home and counted on me to know where to lead him.
    (I will refrain from telling you what I think of this driver.....)

    I always consult a map or a map program, and I almost always have written directions to my destination.
    It's important to do your 'homework' before just driving into a situation that you either cannot get out of or
    that you can be penalized for.
    just trying to stay off the radar, or fly under it, or something like that.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by SamIam_Murphy View Post
    Excellent advice!! I was driving a "SAG" car, following one of our drivers. For over an hour I wondered where he was going!
    I had reviewed the directions given and looked at Streets & Trips and discovered that the map programs were going to try
    to send us to a wrong location -30 miles from where we were supposed to be. The driver was blinding following the GPS -
    he never ever looks at a map. I followed him right to the WRONG location. Fortunately there were no unexpected weight
    limit or no trucks signs along the way.
    For the next few weeks he left his GPS at home and counted on me to know where to lead him.
    (I will refrain from telling you what I think of this driver.....)

    I always consult a map or a map program, and I almost always have written directions to my destination.
    It's important to do your 'homework' before just driving into a situation that you either cannot get out of or
    that you can be penalized for.

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