drivers-warned-about-gps-routes-after-big-rig-burns-in-remote-maine-forest/

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  2. rollin coal

    rollin coal Road Train Member

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    Gps? more likely somebody's collecting an insurance check on that one because they said to hell with it all lol
     
  3. Magoo1968

    Magoo1968 Road Train Member

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    Hmm there’s no pavement on this grass road but gps says it’s okay lol my gps tries to take me down a old logging road that hasn’t been maintained for a decade because it cuts off 75 miles between the drops in northern Ontario. I stick to the pavement because i know it’s a BS route . I even asked receiver one time if people actually take that road and he said only till they get hung up lol
     
  4. OLDSKOOLERnWV

    OLDSKOOLERnWV Captain Redbeard

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    Unfortunately you have to read English to understand the signs.

    picking up a oversized load at Boyd Cat in Pikeville, Ky and got to taking to a local rollback driver that was waiting to load too. He was telling me they have pulled quite a few trucks out of the side roads all because the driver couldn’t read the sign…..

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  5. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    "No officer, I'm not trying to get a claim check from the insurance company by burning my own truck. I got lost, yeah lost that's it, then I got stuck in the mud, and forest gnomes built a campfire under by truck, you know how forest gnomes love their fires, and then I called you. Now do I get the check from you or from someone else?"
     
  6. jaffles

    jaffles Medium Load Member

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    Yeh can't see insurance coming good on that fail.

    What would be better is a free heavy vehicle routes edition in google maps. I'm sure their profits could stretch AI for there social license. Maybe share some of that US tech company love
     
  7. mjd4277

    mjd4277 Road Train Member

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    If anything the driver might get a bill for burning part of the forest up along with his truck!lol
     
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