Ever make or miss a turn and find yourself where you should not be?

You knocked on someone's door at 3 am and they helped you happily???!!! Wow!!!! Kudos to that man!!! And lucky you not to get shot! (who knows who's knocking on your door at 3 am, you know?)

It's so easy to get lost when you don't know an area. That's why I always have the internet and Google maps. If we get lost, I find a street name and, if necessary, we stop until I figure out where we are. Not fun.

 

I find a street name and, if necessary, we stop until I figure out where we are. Not fun.[/quote]

thats the problem with vermont, not many street signs

 

i drove a concrete mixer truck for several years and one thing i have learned. as bad as people hate to see a mixer truck turn around in there drive or lot, they really hate to see a big rig turn, or even sit for a while even though they are taking your money. although i can see the concrete truck thing, with a full load they will just roll up the blacktop in a residential drive, as a rule.

 

I got turned around and stuck in a pickle in New Jersey once. Went one way, got to a 12 foot bridge. I got turned around, went the other way, got to a 12' 6" bridge. While I was sitting there contemplating where to go, a local police officer pulled up alongside me, asked me where I was trying to get to, and led me out to the turnpike. I guess he'd rather take the time to do that than take the time to fill out an accident report.

I learned my lesson, though. Now I have my laptop with PC Miler and MS Streets and Trips. Also, a Verizon internet card so I can check Google maps with overhead satellite imaging just about anywhere.

Haven't gotten lost since.

 

Do those programs have the low bridges and restricted truck routes, and anything else pertaining to big trucks that would be needed as well?

 

Instead of asking


Ever make or miss a turn and find yourself where you should not be?

You should have just asked have you ever drove a truck? I missed a turn in chicago last week. Thing is to remain calm. This is part of trucking. We all do it. Many won't admit to it. I will say it has been awhile since I have done it, but I guess I needed humbled a little!

 

Oh ya, I been several of times in one year. Well, I was following the qualcomm directions and it was very dark outside. I got all the interstate as it said too. It warns you not to take a road because there was no turn around. Well guess what? The road that I turned into was that road that I was not suppose to turn into. I could not see the sign very clearly as it looked like the road that I needed to be on because it was spelled about the same. Well I had people driving up my behind and I seen a road where I could pulled in and back it up. When I pulled in the road, I finally saw the No Trucks sign as it was too late. You know how those signs are if you were turning right, they are too far from the road to see on time. Well, I said that ok with me since I was going to backup. Well as I backing up and I stopped all the traffic, someone was cuzzing me out and beeping their horn so bad that I got pissed off that I decided to go forward into the No Trucks road and went on. About a maybe a half a mile down that road, I got pulled over with some flashing lights (I though it was a police officer, so I though OH ####!) It turns out this guy was a ex-truck driver and he said not to go down anymore since there was no place to turn around. He had a small driveway that he use to help truckers to turn around, I said there no way I can back into your driveway with that mailbox in the way. The next thing that he did shocked me, he pulled his mailbox out of his ground. I looked at him as he smile and said "You not the first one that been here." He even helped me by guiding me since I didn't have that much backing experience at the time. I was able to get out of that hole without a wrecker and I tried giving him some cash for the help, but he refused.


The other one is where I got off the interstate at NC to find a turnaround back to the other direction, it turns out that there was not a turnaround and got stuck on that road. I ask for directions and got me going to a road that takes me back to the interstate, but I somehow missed it and I tried turning fast into a parking lot that was NOT design for a tractor-trailer. It was a steak house and the building was in front of me and I had people behind me. I did manage got the rig in the back of the steak house, but that when my trouble started There was so many light poles back there and they were so close that I could not had made a turn that wide without hitting any of them. I was forced to go into their land (grass) and made a wide turn in there. There was some people watching me as I was nervous as hell. I could hear under my truck hitting the curbs when I was entering the grass. I got out of that jam and everything was good to go.

PS: PLEASE, always look to see where you turning into I learned that the hard way