Using Motor Carrier atlas

Good Lord, I'm an antique. I never realized how hard it was to read a map. I had a whole briefcase of city maps. NYC,Baltimore,Atlanta, LA, Miami, Denver, etc. Used pay phones for directions (had a phone credit card) called the shipper, receiver, etc. Had a spiral notebook and wrote down directions to every shipper and receiver I went to. I just considered it part of the job. I probably would do it the same way if I went back to truckin'. Easier for me and I didn't have to rely on an idiot shipper, lost dispatcher or confused receiver to get me there. Feelin older every day I read the forum.

 

Easy now hand some of us young un's still got respect for the old ways.....and enjoy learning from ya'll

 

I use my road atlas to make sure my gps doesnt put me on a road I cant be on and for low bridges. I try to avoid the reciever for directions because I have found they give you directions the way they come to work it has been the same with shippers.

 

When you call the shipper or receiver for directions, have you been communicating with the shipping and receiving dept. managers, have you been speaking to other office personnel (secretary, etc.)? Do you tell them you are in a 70 ft truck?

 

In the olden days of trucking, you'd go into the truck stop for eats, there'd be a payphone at every table. Banks of payphones along the walls. Drivers had to phone call it in for their loaded and empty calls, which is taken care of by qualcomm at a lot of companies now. I'm sure drivers had stacks of maps for every metro area. A savvy driver would have a fullsize map 1:1 scale in the truck.