Google maps... what IS it good for?

Scary! Get your head out of your er MUSIC and get your eyes open!

 

Yeah true

 

I LOVE google, doing a lot of LTL deliveries it comes in handy to check the best way to get into a place, direct routes, use street view to check bridge clearances, look for no truck signs on certain routes, traffic updates. I would love to see google introduce a truck version. Would be the best.

 

trip planning no its not the best but for getting a visual of the last legs of the race of the trip you already have planned out, getting satilite view to see a realistic look at what the roads around the shipper will look like, street view for a good view of the shipper if its a tight place you haven't been to so you can see what it will look like when you pull up just like standing in front it.

 

That's all well and good until the customer directs you under a 13"5' bridge on a road not in the atlas. We need fact based data, not customer reconIng.

 

"Google!"

"Maps!"

"What is it good for?"

"Absolutely"

"NOTHIN'!"

"Say it again, yaaaah"........

 

HAVE YOU HAD A SHIPPER OR RECEIVER DO THIS TO YOU? It sure is all the sudden funny that what drivers did for years and years before GPS or Google got by with this information. Next point you have better reread my comment. I was not talking about roads NOT in the atlas.

When I was active 90% of the time I went to places I had experience with or my company put warnings in the dispatch. I very rarely called a customer. However when I did I always got good information. In that comment I quoted that person has said something NOT true.