DO NOT Blindly follow your GPS

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dockbumper, Mar 30, 2021.

  1. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    To be fair there are a lot of businesses with multiple locations in a town. If I have an address on the paperwork, that's where I'm going first. If they moved, and not simply opened another warehouse, they need to beat the suppliers until the suppliers put the correct address on the paperwork.

    It's even worse when the truck entrance isn't even on the same road as the business address. The plant I deliver to the business address is almost a mile away from the truck entrance. While there are signs pointing out as such coming from 1 direction, that leaves 2 more directions with expressway access unsigned.
     
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  3. SoulScream84

    SoulScream84 Road Train Member

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    I can't remember which warehouse in Denver, but there's 1 which unless you've looked up Google reviews you will NOT find the entrance to. Not only is the truck entrance on another street, you have to take a different exit off the interstate to even get to the different street.
     
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  4. Frank Speak

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    Miller (used to be Coors) in Golden is like that.
     
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  5. SteveScott

    SteveScott Road Train Member

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    Whenever I visit a new location, I always check it out on Google maps before getting there. Half the time the truck entrance is on another street. GPS has its limits.
     
  6. SoulScream84

    SoulScream84 Road Train Member

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    I haven't done that 1, the one I'm thinking of is out in the northeast side of Aurora, think it's off either Tower or Airport. It'd be a great hunting ground for you with all the lost truckers, but I doubt many are Kentuckians.
     
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