Do local day cab companies have gps?

I use the "Maps" app on my iPhone to look at routes. Once I find the route I want to take I use the satellite view to look for entrances to my deliveries. Since most of the places I deliver to require me to scale in and out the entrances are not hard to find using the satellite view. I look for a guard shack and a scale. I'm sure I'm not the only driver who has arrived at a destination only to find out that the entrance is not at the address given by dispatch.

 

GPS has the same exact info and more in it as my atlas,its not a big deal to use one.

 

I have zoomed into deliveries to see posted on a gate that the address you deliver for is clear over on a different street, across a canal, yada, yada. If you see a train trestle you can zoom in and check it out, as long as the signs are posted where you can see them; this same goes for bridges or overpasses.

GPS is not a hundred percent foolproof, but it is a help. But don't blindly just follow it, the paper road atlas needs to have the low bridges checked out in the front first.

As far as companies letting you pick your own route they don't go for that usually, most company drivers they like to route on roads that are not tollroads, are 50 miles shorter, but only 2 lanes in a lot of cases and going through towns instead of using an interstate route. How they propose this saves fuel I don't know when you are stopping and going at every red light. Some companies only allow about 10% out of route miles and can charge you for the out of route miles. US X was threatening $1.00 per mile back in 2008; I saw on other TTR posting a guy was charged $2.00 per mile on a confused home time trip home.

 

Ive seen day cabs with built in GPS, they where not truck set up GPS's