Freaking Qualcomm/GPS frustrations! Any suggestions?

Do tankers less back road BS. Most chemical plants have nice entrances, nit all . Pittsburgh is hard to drive in. Cincy has a couple of spots in neighborhoods, hard to drive in. Bonus tankers is 10 feet shorter too. Or is it 11.

 

We have a driver "still" making payments on a $13,000 overweight fine, in PA, his GPS took him on, just sayin..

 

When did slavery come back?

A driver should have a say in their routing.

 

A say, yes, but within reason.

What would you say about a driver heading from Chicago to Atlanta routing thru Memphis to avoid the mountains? Or running from Cario to Paducah via I57 and I 24 instead of US 60? Or running from Green Bay up thru the UP, down to Toledo to avoid Chicago?

Those are all real things that "drivers " have done - not to run around weather, or to avoid road shutdowns but because they wanted to go their "better way".

Or we had the guy who didn't want to run state routes and took the interstate, which was fewer miles. Only problem was the bridge was out between the interstate and the customer. 4 wheelers could take the detour, but class a trucks didn't fit.

A company telling an employee to do the job a certain way isn't slavery.

 

Actually it should not. No different than getting a tow. The ELD cannot use GPS for movement, and as long as the truck isn't under it's own power on the ferry it's no problem.

 

Case in point. Small PA town on the Delaware River south of where I-78 crosses over from PA in to NJ.
At the only stoplight in town, turning towards the river points you right at I-78 a good 6 or 7 miles into Jersey and civilian GPS units route you that way.

So you drive the two blocks past the light bridge signs and ignore the turn that takes you back to a truck route to risk the dolly legs and 'skirts' if you have them to drive over a tiny girder bridge over the canal to make a hard right to fetch up at the guard shack of a 2 ton bridge that turns loaded pickups away [had a wooden floor until the 80's!] and now Mr. Steering wheel holder has to figure out how to back out...around the 90 degree bend and back up over the tiny canal bridge and back enough to take the side road out while 10,000 angry commuters are #####in.....

Happens at least once a day, usually a Swift or similar 'Mega' carrier.

town's Facebook page wants barriers to keep the adventuresome guys from driving over the canal in the first place. Some want to load up the cannon at the monument and stop the trucks with force!

 

Change your settings.

 

Use atlas for the general route, and google maps can help you with route when ur getting to pickup/delivery, google mas street view can help you see no truck signs also....once u plan ur trips a couple times on ur own it will get easier and u wont rely on the qualcomm to much which is a good thing