A great GPS, Trucker story.

It is hard to believe all the news articles I've read about people solely relying on their GPS unit, and not actually reading the signs, and paying attention to where they are.
People, your GPS unit may not be aware of road closures, or may not even be aware that the vehicle you are in control of is not allowed, by law, on some of the roadways it is telling you to travel on.
Have some common sense, will ya'?

 

My GPS is called Hank. I get along pretty good with him but since he's an Okey from Muskogie he gets confused in the big cities sometimes. He also sometimes likes to take the senic route instead of the interstate. In Quebec he gets really screwed up. I don't thing he reads French too good.

 

GPS is a great tool for drivers but it does require a little common sense. As a driver I have been using GPS technology successfully for years, but during that entire time I have never driven a route that I didn’t thoroughly check over very carefully first before I traveled it. Not to mention that I also always check my routes beforehand for low overhead clearances and restricted routes too.

It blows my minds when I read on the Internet all the time about drivers complaining that their GPS device led them to a low overhead clearance or down a restricted route road. I mean why would any driver blindly trust his or her career to a GPS device, especially when none of them do truck specific routing and not even the ones that advertise and claim that they do.

As a matter of fact, I don’t even use the auto-rerouting feature because I simply don’t trust it and also because I simply refuse to travel down any road I haven’t checked out first beforehand. I mean a GPS could reroute you down a restricted residential area and get you into a world of trouble just as easy as it could route you down a road okay for trucks.

Thus the moral of the story is GPS is a wonderful technology for drivers but must be used with a lot of common sense. Run into a low overhead clearance, tell your company safety department it wasn’t your fault because you were following your GPS, and see how far that gets you.

 

A friend of ours recently gave us a GPS unit.
I plan on putting it in our personal vehicle, and STILL keep an atlas in the pick-up, so I can double-check routing on long road trips...yup, yup, yup!

Judi Kay

 

I can't even post what I named my obnoxious little harpy.

 

I named mine "Shud Up Stuped"

 

When I hear of GPS screwups I think of those 2 cars in the Pixar Movie CARZ. You know the 2 Vechiles that even at the end could NOT FIND THE HIGHWAY AND STILL BELIVED THE GPS ONLY.

 

I believe almost nothing that I hear coming from a truck anyway, so why start now?

$500 just so I can sit in disbelief? I have teenagers...they give me that feeling for free!