New breed

I don't use GPS! I use a map and compass & by god if I want to hang a right I will!!!

 

I hate to see my trailer passing me.

 

While this is true, it's become a far worse problem since they current nanny-state mega-fleet mentality of "don't think, just do what you're told" has become firmly rooted. They don't teach these guys to navigate, they teach them how to follow the instructions given by the magic box. And when you don't teach a driver the critical thinking skills necessary, this kind of crap is the result. This is partly a societal issue, too; too many kids have no idea how to think because they were just pushed through school while learning about Heather's two mommies, and 'don't worry about that hard stuff you'll never use anyways.' Toss a helping of helicoptering parents, and the result is these kids who have no clue how to think things through.

 

I ran into a Central driver the other day at a "T" in the road by a major food production facility. I was on my way home and taking the backroads. He was lost so I pull up beside him and ask which way he is going to turn. He looks at the QC and says "this thing tells me to go left...I hate this thing". Told him the best way to get back to the interstate was to go back the way he came in...which wasn't right or left...it was behind him. I did offer to take him through the country and get him back to the interstate but a quick glance at the road conditions and he politely declined.

If he had gone left he most certainly would of slid into a ditch if he made it over the "bridge"...he had a better chance of making it if he went right, but a slide off into a ditch would of happened...maybe.

He didn't strike me as being stupid...actually he presented himself well and I could tell was eager for the right information and accepting of the help.

I bring this up because I thought about him being told by this mega carrier to follow the GPS directions on the QC, quickly followed up by the consequences if he didn't. If he was empowered to rely on himself to make decisions I don't think he would of been in the situation...that or proper training.

 

That driver's GPS did not "tell him" to continue straight on Sunbury St - that would have been a serious error by the routing algorithm. Continuing straight leads to a deadend in a residential area. The driver became confused when presented with a slight turn to the right to remain on PA-61. He made the wrong turn, and then compounded the error with some really bad decisions that created a catastrophe. Its obvious that his training was lacking, and he was in over his head. He also doesn't have the balls to man-up, and take responsibility for his mistakes.

 

Exactly what I meant!

 

3 weeks at the job smh

 

hey now, dont knock that..that means he has enough experience to be a trainer....