How many can read a map?

@Rideandrepair I haven’t been on 119 off of I-79. But from Ripley, 33 is a good road

 

Yeah, I really don't understand the "GPS is garbage" argument (okay, I actually understand it, but don't agree with it... even a little bit ). I'm like you, I use pretty much every tool at my disposal and I have several of them at hand. In fact, to be perfectly honest, I barely used the Trucker's Atlas even though I bought a new one very two years.

A lot of my driving was OS as well as going places without map coverage where the number one tool is to use your eyes and read the signs. That works really good for ordinary OTR too, so you'll know to duck when you're high-balling it under the 13'7" overpass ion Dalhart, TX.

And I'm very disappointed MS Streets & Trips was discontinued.

 

This is generational

Old drivers where actually driving as the country was being built so as new roads and highways came into play then that was all they had to add to their memory as goes for businesses. As more and more companies opened these old guys knew where they were located because they watched it being built

The country has changed with amount of roads. Traffic. And companies a lot since the 70-80’s

I have a friend. He can tell you where such and such company is. How to get in to their lot etc even though he has never actually been there

I use all 3
GPS. Cell map / Google and atlas
If they all jive to a new location I haven’t been then I trust my gps and that’s never put me in a wrong or has place

 

I can pretty much drive anywhere without a map or gps just from having run so long but I did get a Garmin dezl years ago to input my 500? customers into. I may not have been to a stop in 10 years so it's pretty handy and It's pretty good with the eta. And what @Rideandrepair said, part of knowing how to use a map is how it works in relation to all the different numbering and lettering systems used.

 

That's like exit 14 getting off in Bayonne. God help you if your new to the area. GPS is gonna be of no help. My 770 bricks out when it sees that Lol

 

All in all, I have to say, GPS is the best thing to come along, for Trucking. It makes it so much easier, not to mention saves fuel, makes checking mileage and comparing routes very easy. I was reluctant at first. I hardly ever look at my Atlas.