My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

some guys have them on the floor in front of the passenger seat, some strap it to the catwalk or behind the sleeper. or you could just stick it in then end of your trailer (if theres room).



American Trucker

 

Thank You!

I have a Rand McNally GPS and I love it! I highly recomend it, yea it makes mistakes every now and then BUT nothing that could cost you your job....

Heres and example of what it did in Upstate NY, I was looking at the map on the screen and it wanted me to zig zag threw albany... BUT because I know that IT knows what its doing I decided to go with it to see why it was doing that, well I get to the first intersection where I'm suposed to turn (zig) and I look across the intersection and theres an 11' bridge and I'm ah ha thats why I'm turning! Then at the next turn (zag) there was another really low bridge and it did that at every turn......but it did route me to two 12' 2" BUT thats because it KNEW I would fit my 13' 6" truck under it, now I of course didn't trust it I got out and looked before I went under but it was right again It knew that it was allot taller then was posted......I don't know many GPS's that will do that or that when you want to take a "short cut" on a Road that is resticked to trucks it pops up a screen that says "routeing on this road is restricked to commercial vehicals" so that you Don't get a big ticket for driving down that parkway you DIDNT know trucks couldnt drive on....


I have a 29 myself good radio!


American Trucker

 

So I re-did all that routing stuff last night and should be about 3 hours away from Conover, NC right now....but i'm about 9.5 hours away lol


And this time it wasn't a customer that did this, it was our Indianapolis terminal! I finished my last four stops today and was going to go Indy to have them load some more furniture on my trailer that needs to go to conover, well I was going to get there about 5:30pm but they go home at 4PM! so he says see ya in the morning......

So now I'm about 10 minutes away from the terminal at a pilot, I was going to go to the terminal for the night but since there phone card doesnt say anything about whats there I said screw it. With my luck it would be the size of the NJ terminal but be like the SLC terminal and have nothing there and be all locked up. So I figured here theres food/showers/WiFi lol

But anyway I'll be in a door by 8am! thats not an option its Going to happen! haha


Then hopefully they can load me quick and I'll be off on my long drive to conover....and as long as theres no major problems I should be in conover around 6 or 7 PM.







American Trucker