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Originally Posted by allan5oh
Yes I started using it when I got an aircard a few weeks back. It's also fantastic for finding wal-marts to park in. You definitely don't want to come in the wrong way with a wal-mart. Last one I noticed you could go all the way around back(some you can't) and that way you're facing the right way when you park.
Also for many customers it's fantastic. I was doing John Deere deliveries and I could see the tractors with the satellite view.
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I have a Verizon aircard and do the same thing you do, except I do it with Streets & Trips with the add-on template called the Truck Stops Plus, which has all the truck stops, wal-mart Supercenters, and other trucking specific POIs on it.
I zoom in on the ones I’m routing to, and then hit the windows live local button. A browser window appears with a bird’s eye view of the wal-mart and I can easily see which is the best way to enter that particular wal-mart before I leave. Pretty cool.
I also use the windows live feature to locate virtually all of my shippers and consignees before I ever go to them, and especially when I don’t have final directions. I can usually locate them beforehand with the windows live local feature and then mark them with a pushpin on my trip map. I hate having to call for directions, because I usually end up getting a clueless girl who doesn’t know north from south. Plus it is nice to be guided to the exact pinpoint location and also to know beforehand which side of the road they are on and where best to enter.
I do check for google street level photos on occasion when for some reason there are no aerial photographs or if the facility I’m searching for was built after the aerial photographs were taken, since the google street level photos are usually only a few months old, and I have located several shippers and consignees I couldn’t find otherwise this way. The moral of the story is to use all the tools available at your disposal.