Drivers, why are we using GPS units?

Not sure what navigo is but if I'm reading your post correctly it seems like it does what a gps does.

GPS is great for eta and good for knowing when that turn is coming up in the town I've never been to.

I was against them at one time but find it to be a real good tool. It's not necessary though. If just starting out and short on funds I wouldn't make it the highest priority.

 

How do u know they get tired of those calls?? Don't sound annoyed when I call

 

yeah my garmin was so mad at me on i 80 that i thought it was going to slap me. imagine all those low weight limit bridges on the interstate. lol

 

a GPS is another tool, it is an up to date electronic map, so long as you update it. I can zoom out, and check my entire route, zoom in to check sections, and zoom all the way in to see if I agree with the SUGGESTED ROUTE. I don't miss my exits, I know that in 2 miles I need to exit, and can adjust to traffic to get to the exit... I know I have a left turn coming up, and can adjust and get in the left lane with ease...

Never had a problem with my garmin in nebraska... did have a problem with it in PA, on the turnpike...

And when the inevitable delay happens, I could adjust my stopping point, to a closer place, without violating my hours of service, and quickly find that closer place.

 

I get lonely and want somebody to talk to me.

 

Ok, if you say so.

 

my cb must be broke, cuz it don't seem to work on them highway detours.

it didn't work at all on the 5 in los angeles.

i know how to use a map, i was taught old school. gps didn't exist back then. but why should i take the time, gps is soooooooooo much faster.

besides, i can't read the small print anymore, anyways. thank goodness my gps works. doesn't require a spanish speaking phone call. or an atlas. to which i can't read without a magnifying glass

as much as you all like to harp on people. there ARE gps's that DO work like they should. it's not our fault that your twice as expensive brand only works half the time.

only time i have a problem, is in them towns that weren't even designed for horse and buggy, let alone a truck.

but i don't use a rand, been there done that. or garmin, or google.

 

And yet stexan you didn't answer my question. How do you know they get annoyed??? What makes you an expert on how customers feel about their phone calls???

 

When you call a shipper/receiver and get "directions" from a clerk who provides you with the route they take to work but is unsuitable for a truck, or they mistake your direction of approach 180° and tell you to turn L instead of R, get back to us on the resulting adventure. The first thing you must realize is NOBODY CARES if you get stuck looking at a LOW CLEARANCE or a NO TRUCKS sign (conveniently posted 100-400 yards past any space where you can reverse your route/where it should be).

No driver should ever have to interrupt a client for directions, and a driver follows those they may receive at their own peril.

I used a $150 Magellan GPS315 (2001), but plugged into my laptop running MS Streets & Trips. IMO a big truck requires a map display proportional to the size of the fine one might receive for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and no standalone GPS unit has that.

 

Had a guy go on for a full minute about how he was tired of just that before he would give me the directions. Why a place in Chicago that gets many trucks a day wouldn't put directions on a recording is beyond me but this dude wasn't having a good day and I was the straw.

So yes, I guarantee you some do get tired of those calls. That's not a reason not to call though. Just because someone gets tired of doing their job is no reason to not ask them to do it.