Paper or plastic?

The latest rand mcnally hasn't done me wrong yet, still fails a bit when it comes down to side streets which at that point you can just zoom it out and look for yourself which roads are the best to use. I use the atlas (paper, just buy a new one every year) frequently as well. You old crusties are too set in your ways.

 

$10 rand mcnally, $6 pocket t/s guide, dumb phone, pen and paper.

works just fine and more money for coffee.

 

Yeah, I suppose we should shut up about buttonless cell phones that won't work in cold weather and radios with dim puny little buttons you can't see in the dark as well.

 

I find that it helps calculating the route by the route my company gives me, look at my atlas and then comparing that to what my GPS routes me. I make changes when I deem necessary, but I think relying solely on a GPS is a little dangerous, sometimes that thing takes you down what I call, "Death Trap" meaning small street where trucks cannot go down, down country roads and to dead ends. It happened a few times, and that is why I now use all three of my tools.

 

had a driver on here a while back.

can't read a map and had poor sense of direction. NEEDED a GPS.??

dang shame. needs a stationary job.

 

I use both. I find myself relying on my gps a little to much though.

I have to break that habit.

 

I don't blindly follow it where it will put me on a bad road or in a tight spot.

I just don't spend enough time mapping out my major routes sometimes.