whats realy funny is that , the red shoe barn is about 1/2 a mile down the road from where the bridge is rotflmao ,, but he did not notice it until then

Well golly gee wizz, according to all the "new" drivers, a GPS is the best thing to have in your truck. Who needs a trucker's atlas and a cell phone to CALL AND ASK FOR DIRECTIONS when you have a GPS unit that was made for use in a car!

Does someone feel a draft????? :shock:

lmao...I was going to say the samething you beat me to it..."6mpg my tail I'm better than that.."It's clowns like this that make it hard for me to get a good job right out of school.

Yep, and how many times have I and others made this same point about being alittle too wrapped up in a GPS????

It only takes one occasion like this to wreck your life, someone elses, and possibly even to completely ruin a career.

You can make the point until you are blue in the face. Fact remains, the new breed relies too much on high tech gadgets. I have come to the conclusion that the CDL mills no longer teach basic map reading skills and that company trainers teach how to use high tech gadgets. There is nothing wrong with having a laptop(I have one) and a GPS unit in the truck BUT you still need to know how to read a map and be able to call and ask fror directions. Most of the GPS units on the market a for cars, not big trucks. I know of only one GPS(stand alone, not CO-Pilot) that is made for big trucks but it cost right now about $1100.00.

Forget the gps, a trucker atlas, or a cb, or a phone call the sipper/recvr
would have prevented this If you cant tell a bridge or over pass high line wire, or whatever looks too low you should't be driving a truck. Hell at 9'
that would hit about somewere around the visor, I'd been hittin the floorboard at that height. This trucker wasn't just paying attn to his/her
gps, c'mon I don't beleive that for a second. Think about a 6' tall person
standing at your truck door? (my two grown sons are over 6' and can't stand on the ground and look in the side glass of my truck ) A yard stick taller than that would be where??

He was to busy looking at the GPS unit to notice the sign, the yellow flashing lights, the overpass. Didn't even relize that he lost the trailer and made sunroof in the tractor until AFTER he came out the other side.

You are right about that, I have never used a GPS, I only rely on my maps and directions from the customer. I have found that most customers can give you better directions and can usually tell you which routes to avoid.

Well golly gee wizz, according to all the "new" drivers, a GPS is the best thing to have in your truck. Who needs a trucker's atlas and a cell phone to CALL AND ASK FOR DIRECTIONS when you have a GPS unit that was made for use in a car![/quote]

You are right about that, I have never used a GPS, I only rely on my maps and directions from the customer. I have found that most customers can give you better directions and can usually tell you which routes to avoid.[/quote]

I love all the new gadgets too, but I guess that comes from starting trucking before cell phones, quallcoms, and laptops. Call the customer.. but I hate the recorded directions I guess I just write slow. Wonder what these guys would do if they had to find a payphone without gps to call the customer :shock: