Use your GPS.......

anthor thing gps may be great and i plan too get one too, but too only too use as a aid , nothen more, i still like my my map book, and internet, google earth, but the thing i noticed on any map hardware, i havent tryed it on gps yet, is they dont show the hyway lane clouser due too the accdent, or shut the hyway down too compltely redo the hyway.

 

I use my GPS as a secondary source also. I have a TD510 and, while it is pretty accurate, it is not perfect. I also have MapPoint on the computer and use Google Maps to look at satellite view and compare what I see with customer directions and to see if there is likely to be parking available at or near the customer. Like the others, I like the GPS for distance to go, ETA for delivery and for a quick alternate route if I need to detour.

 

GPS-less drivers will eventually go the way of glow plugs.

 

and dont ferget the air starters and ether cans on side of blocks too change out in the middel of a blizzard

 

When I ran OTR, I used mine mainly for the "next road" function so I could seethe name before I got to it. I'd always call the customer and get directions and then look up the streets on my GPS and it comes in very handy knowing the street nes before u get to them!! Now this was back in 03' and a GPS was about $900 then and the size of a work boot lol.....now it's just common fair. I only use mine now for ETA as I go to the same place every day.

 

last winter had a job that the gps was the only way to go to where you need to be
all I had was coordinates
go .5 mile in this field to find the spot, cross the stream first!

now I use the where am I button to make a comment in the log for nearest city, etc.

 

I like that Google Maps and Earth but today I was helping a friend and when she got to where she needed to be in Bethlehem Pa which wasn't on my old copy of a well known routing program as the whole industrial park wasn't built when the program was published. After she got settled in the lot I was looking at my home and it was funny because that street view was different from the overhead! The overhead was this summer which I could tell from my 2 new maple trees and the new vents on my roof that were put in 2 months ago, but the street view was from July 4th 2007! My neighbor across the street was still there, my roof had the new shingles on it and the flags around my yard light were still there! He moved just after we both had our roofs re shingled and took his camper and boat out west!

Take what you get on the internet or a GPS with a grain of salt!

 

I like it because it gives me directions home and tell me how many miles i have to go and what time i will get there now if i could remember my address

 

Ok i'm new too gps, i wacthed all his movies on the other post here, i was really wacthing that gps part of it, now do you punch in all your fuel stops, directions,before every trip, or ? the thing that got me on that last videio said your destion was on your right, yet he turn left , went up along side the building on a narrow drive and gps said it on the right all the time but yet he back into the left building ,hum.strange

 

If you can't find that chemical plant or refinery without a stupid GPS, you don't need to be driving a truck!!
I still have not found a need for one of those toys.