How to find local truck routes- map?

They used to say NOT to do that in certain cities, because local thugs would guide you down a dead end street, set upon you and leave you naked and bleeding in the street, and strip your tractor and trailer down to a pair of frame rails.

Oddly enough, never met anyone it ACTUALLY happened to, though....could be an "urban trucker legend"....

 

Sorry but stuff like that doesn't happen in Chicago..... They just shoot you while you're still on the highway.

 

Google "Truck GPS."
some of the latest and greatest are pretty good, with low clearance and narrow warnings.
No GPS is 100 %.
I got one on Craigslist that was about 6 months old from a guy retiring - last year.

 

Call the customer anyway.They've routed so many truckdrivers in they know the correct route in their sleep.

 

X2!! In the 80's and 90's before all the cell phone frenzy, I stopped a ways out and called the customer.... Only got bad info one time, and that was from stopping and asking a guy at a fire dept in Boston, Mass area.

 

No. Peoplenet will not keep you strictly on truck routes 100% of the time. I use a combination of atlas, gos, Google maps, and a healthy dose of common sense. A call to the customer never hurts either.

 

The old school way...the atlas.
Clearly shows you available roads.
Calling the shipper-receiver is another way to verify route.
Ymmv.

 

If I am going to a location I have never been before, if I have time I will use Google Maps and Satellite View. Then I use Street View. Often the address given to you will put you on a street that isn't the truck entrance. In Street View you can read the sign that says something like, "NO TRUCKS! Truck entrance on 3rd Street". You can even "drive" the route in Street View and it's almost like you have been there before when you actually drive it.