Do Folks Want to be Tracked Every Inch They Go?

Ah just Flip it all. I don't even flippin' care. . .

 

Ok i just got home from my run this week, i don't have all those fancy gizmos in my trk. I get dispatched the old fashioned way i call they give load info. I call customer for directions and call before i'm mty if i'm off my normal run. Other wise i get dispatched on monday for the whole week. Don't talk to dispatch until the following monday. Not micro managed, company i'm leased to knows i do my job and do it well. With that said i was sitting at customer last night in denver area. A cr england driver came up to me and asked if i could show him how to do a paper log. And if i had a map to show him how to use it. His elog went down and it also routed him he was utterly lost and confused been driving 8 years and never looked at or bought a map.said he didn't need to because he had no need for it. I looked at him and said "well i guess you are up creek without a paddle, i'll try to help, but funny how you new drivers depend on modern electronics but are so ignorant of the basics of doing something simple". I guess this is why big fleets push this crap because drivers they get are ignorant or lazy and can't be bothered unless a computer tells them how to wipe their own backside. I think it's funny as ****. But in another it's sad society is so dependent on these idiot boxes. People don't interact much at all face to face. Pretty sad state of affairs.

 

This post so makes me wish the 'Atlas' thread hadn't gotten locked up!

 

Its all about perspective if you got lost in the woods and were hungry would you know how to catch food? But if some old time woodsman found you he would say the same thing.

 

as a matter of fact yes i would, i was raised up in the mountains of mt and learned to hunt and what plants etc you can safely eat, also several years in military and took survival training classes numerous times. I guess what i'm trying to say is society as a whole is smarter in many ways, but also dumber in a lot of ways on the basic fundamentals of life. Way off topic sorry. Just can't believe how such simple tasks are foreign to so many.

 

If I worked in the woods, I would.