aposhark:
robroy:
Beetlejuice:
£300 is nothing in the scheme of things ,Especially for new lads/ladies just starting out .
Imo.it’s the worst thing a new driver can buy.
How is he going to actually LEARN how to do the job properly if a thing stuck to his windscreen is telling him absolutely every little thing to do from spoon feeding to when to wipe his own arse.
I’ve seen me even with my experience use a sat nav to get somewhere (after checking of course),and could I hell give anybody any directions afterwards, and that is just a basic car sat nav.
This is why we have so many terminally crap and pathetic truck ‘‘drivers’’ today…, initiative is a redundant concept. 
That makes sense if the driver can stop and take the time to look at road maps.
Lots of runs are so time-critical and some jobs don’t allow the driver to stop - Hermes and DPD don’t allow the drivers to stop when the trailer has parcels on for example.
Yeh, well there is no way in hell I would work for one of those type outfits anyway, so it doesn’t apply to me.
How anybody can put up with some ■■■■ in an office, pushing and monitoring them to that level and extent beggars belief in my book tbh mate. 
aposhark:
robroy:
Beetlejuice:
£300 is nothing in the scheme of things ,Especially for new lads/ladies just starting out .
Imo.it’s the worst thing a new driver can buy.
How is he going to actually LEARN how to do the job properly if a thing stuck to his windscreen is telling him absolutely every little thing to do from spoon feeding to when to wipe his own arse.
I’ve seen me even with my experience use a sat nav to get somewhere (after checking of course),and could I hell give anybody any directions afterwards, and that is just a basic car sat nav.
This is why we have so many terminally crap and pathetic truck ‘‘drivers’’ today…, initiative is a redundant concept.
That makes sense if the driver can stop and take the time to look at road maps.
Lots of runs are so time-critical and some jobs don’t allow the driver to stop - Hermes and DPD don’t allow the drivers to stop when the trailer has parcels on for example.
If you need to stop, you stop. Keeping them informed would be wise and don’t make a habit of stopping without good reason, again keep them informed.
You have to call dpd or hermes to go the bog .You are not allowed to just go .
It is ilegal to make a call while driving .So if you were to call hands free and have a crash dpd and hermes would not be in court .you would be …
So i agree never work for those type micro managers .
switchlogic:
Captain Caveman 76:
switchlogic:
Errr, is really is very obviously is a map. Not sure how you can argue it isn’t. Street level maps of the whole continent. I’ve been driving for a living for 20 years and I do have back up, if my Satnav doesn’t work I’ve Google Maps on my phone, if my phone didn’t work Google Maps on my iPad. And Google Maps is better than any physical map money can buy, though no doubt next you’ll be claiming they aren’t maps…
Whilst the advantages of having all your maps in a 6 inch by 3 inch box are obvious, there are pitfalls to an over reliance on technology. Software glitches, battery failure or even dropping the thing will screw you over. All of your plan b’s are also susceptible to tech failure but with the added issue of needing a phone signal.
The chances of all my electronic gadgets going down at once are probably on a par with the chances of your paper map spontaneously combusting. P.s I have downloaded maps on all three devices so I’m not reliant on a phone signal. Besides, people talk as if paper maps are as rare as hens teeth. If all my gadgets went down I’d only have to walk into the nearest fuel sation and buy one, they really aren’t hard to find.
Game, set and match I think.
Beetlejuice:
You have to call dpd or hermes to go the bog .You are not allowed to just go .
It is ilegal to make a call while driving .So if you were to call hands free and have a crash dpd and hermes would not be in court .you would be …
So i agree never work for those type micro managers .
Exactly…Never.
These sort of ■■■■■ only run the job like that because drivers have gradually allowed them to do it and get away with it without question.
When the staff in the Highways dept of the county council don’t know the difference of the road colours on a map what hope have the rest of us got .
There was talk on research areas about making sat navs used by LGV/HGV/PSV to be only allowed if it was intended for large vehicle use , ie not car based .
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