Drivers, why are we using GPS units?

WHY GPS???!!!
(Time is money, GPS will save you time. It also keeps me from looking for truck stops, scales, CATs, rest areas and detours.
I literally punch and go, it has never steered me wrong because I will catch it first.
Just because you hit go doesn't mean you don't monitor and verify.
Bottom line, it will make you money by saving you time, what's not to like about that?!?)

( I love my gps. Lil bugger has gitten me into places I never would have found otherwise.
I gone places where both the company directions and the customers directions would
have put me in bad (and expensive) situations)

(I like mine for the ETA, and knowing where and when I have to turn to get to a new customer.)

( I rarely rely on one to "get me there" but they can be life savers in the event of a road closure and fog so thick you are literally "flying on instruments",
to manage the last few miles getting to that place you've never been before.
Customers get tired of answering directions requests from dozens of drivers every week and besides these hand-written,
mis-understood, mis-stated directions are more likely to get you into trouble then a good GPS will.)

(Let's see............ When a highway gets shut down.
It will tell me hey follow this route to get around,
alerts me of upcoming construction, accidents,
delays and will ask if I want to reroute or sit in traffic.
Gives rough eta and mileage to plan my trip)

(Nope, i don't check my routes, nor do i hope it gets it right.
like i mentioned above the darn thing WORKS. been using it 3 1/2 years.
won't use anything else.) /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

""""IF YOU CAN READ AND UNDRESTAND WHAT MENTIONED ABOVE,COLLECTED FROM TRUCK DRIVERS CROSS THE COUNTRY,
DO YOURSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE A BIG FAVOR AND
BUY THAT DARN GPS!!!!!!
DISMISSED.""""

 

A tool like a wrench hammer, tractor, etc. Is only as smart as the use. A frikin GSP is only a smart as those who frikin program it.

 

Roads and local laws change faster than database updates are issued. Better have a RMCA, and your online map service of choice handy for when the little box tries to send you into a recently created truck trap.

 

most of us who been out here a while can too without a gps, name a state and a highway...we can tell you the scales, truck stops, how many miles, where the cops sit, etc....

 

Sad part is used to know most of that myself but I am forgetting more and more.

 

It was closed

 

Bravo bravo...............however, some of us are supposed to be taking GINKO to help memory.......but we keep forgetting to take said vitamin. Now I would NOT be speaking from experience, I've just HEARD that..................................<smirk>

 

Huh??? Take what??? Remember who??? I keep forgetting!!!

LOL!!!

 

Tried that ginko once.

Never again.

 

Oh god the auto-zoom is maddening! I cannot figure out how to get it to stop.

So here's the trick driver (assuming yours is the same as mine), go to "where to?" and open "recently found" and it should pull up your destination addy. Usually at about .2 mile resolution. That gives you all the local streets for about a 1 mile radius. And if you're close your icon will show up too, just not in the center.