Before the gps and internet maps came into being, you old school drivers used your Motor carrier atlas to get from city to city, but when you got into a city, how can you use it to find your shipper/receiver location? These city map inserts cannot list every street. How did you know where to go? Did you also carry the fold out city maps? If so, I would think you would have ended up with a lot of city fold out maps. I assume the dispatcher gave the directions.
Using Motor Carrier atlas
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by Buckeye 'bedder, Dec 14, 2010.
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I didn't start out with a gps but I did have a laptop with street atlas. I still call for directions though if I haven't been to the place before.
Of course I do it from a cell phone while in the truck usually. I still see big banks of pay phones at the odd place but it must have been a pain using a pay phone all the time. And with the way long distance used to be you must have had to carry a whole lot of change just for phone calls. Stop at the pay phone to call dispatch, stop at the pay phone to call receiver/shipper, wait in line at pay phone to check in with home. #### we have it good! -
I still don't have a GPS and won't use one. I use my atlas to get there and then call for directions. If given directions by dispatch I still call to make sure I have the proper location......then I write them down in my notebook so I always have them. Once I started carying my laptop with me I would check out the location on mapquest or google earth to get a good look at the layout of the place so I would have some kind of idea what I was getting into
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I've gotten some of those normally places up here in Wisconsin....some of these #### potato farms I tell ya you would think they never heard of the 20 th century. When I was installing satellite dishes up here back in the 90's I got alot of those dueling banjo type directions too!!!! RRemind me to tell you the story some time of installing a primestar at ma and pa's trailer with their boy Tiger........oh boy can you say INBREEDERS!!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm sure you got some stories Nik! lol
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yeah I could entertain for a while with some of the stupid crap I've gotten myself into!!
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