always check google maps

Cowboy

 

GPS has been out since the early 80's and didn't need it then on my paper route.

No, never called a shipper to get directions. Never. Seen it done. Seen the results and decided there is a better way most of the time. I am not above that, just never seen the need and seen a lot of bad results by doing so.

 

I love google maps. Always use it for traffic and i love that you can drop pin with the touch of a finger.
I've only been driving for 6 months. It's well worth my 5 minutes to see how a place is laid out.

 

I use google maps all of the time. Saved my hide in Billings MT. Route I was going to take turned into a no trucks route. It just didn't look right to me. So a little bit of planning ahead of time saved me 30 minutes of headaches and confusion the next day.

 

I want to go back to the days when there were pay phones, sacks full of various paper city maps, and there was no "pay at the pump", and showers were "shared", and a 290 cummins and 1400 lbs torque was about average ... then I will once again be a "super-trucker"

 

Seriously? The early 80's? I don't recall GPS being used by civilians until about 20 years after that. When I started, some high-tech truckers were using GPS receivers plugged into laptops, but there weren't any stand-alone devices at that time. I'm guessing your paper route kept you basically in your neighborhood on foot or a bike, not across the country in a big truck.

Now really: how do you get someplace? Some very specific place? The trusty Rand McNally will get you to the city. I get that. But how do you get to an address in that city? Do you have paper maps for every county? Do you stop at gas stations around that town, asking where the shipper is?

I seriously want to know. I'm curious how you do it. When I started, it was the trucker atlas to get to the city, and then either known directions in a huge book of our established customers, or a call to the place. How have you never had to call a customer for directions? I have never heard of that.

 

Gps signal was scrambled by the US government until 2000 when Bill Clinton oked commercial and private use. Modern navagation became avaliable after that.

 

The first commercial GPS receiver didn't hit the market until 1989. Wide spread use began in the mid 90's

 

Thank god for google maps people...lol

 

No widespread use in the 2000s. Because the military still scrambled and controlled the signal until 2000. Before that you only got what they let you get and they kept it innacurate for non military use