Hi Pat, hope you keeping well up there in the north east.
As I run a regular route I don’t really need a sat- nav to find my way around. I check the Google maps on my phone just to get the heads up on accidents or delays, but use a good old fashion map to get around any incidents. The problem is every cars sat-nav redirects them all the same way. So I have to find alternate routes to the sat-navs. Its unbelievable how many of todays drivers cant survive with out modern technology!
As a kid I had the A-Z of London and Birmingham and always plotted a route for my father or one of his drivers who I rode with and learnt from.
Running a regular schedule suits me, and a mate runs 15 mins ahead of me north bound, and I run 15mins ahead of him southbound so a quick phone call helps keep us out of trouble most of the time. Occasionally an old hand will call out on the CB, which helps out too.
Every now and then I’ll watch a vlogger from the U.K. on Youtube and they seem to rely on their sat-nav, could you imagine them over here?
Take it easy.