LUCY - with regard to you calling me mr green, i didnāt understand(thats why i was a bit miserable earlier and iām sorry 
) what you meanāt by it (as you all guessed, i am thick), but in that context i am probably mr ever-green, but i do inspire to become as good as all of you in my chosen profession.
so the sat nav must give you an initial readout of the whole journey then, in order to check your route first?
sidan:
so the sat nav must give you an initial readout of the whole journey then, in order to check your route first?
From my point of view the most important thing it must provide is a browesable map - so you can look at your routes and options, possibly even before any planning is done.
After that I want to be able to get a route plan out of it, and even then I would normally want to view the map to see routes from the trunk roads to my destination.
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Gazzareth:
sidan:
so the sat nav must give you an initial readout of the whole journey then, in order to check your route first?From my point of view the most important thing it must provide is a browesable map - so you can look at your routes and options, possibly even before any planning is done.
After that I want to be able to get a route plan out of it, and even then I would normally want to view the map to see routes from the trunk roads to my destination.
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pretty much covers what i was going to say, but iād still use a truckers atlas to check height/weight restrictions on each road, satnav just means that i donāt have keep looking at a map while driving. Satnav is just my preferred device as it takes up less room (mine has uk and europe on it), but everyone is different which is good coz otherwise life would be boring.
Hi all well when i first started i found the truck maps the best hight lim and all that in but life and tec can go a lot faster than maps i still have maps but i got my self a tom tom go 700. and yes you do have to look at the rout you are takeing . but it saves time at the end of the day . now i have just two maps and tom tom AA maps are good of europe. as i live in germany but i all ways look for junction numbers that is a good way of finding your way to dropes that you will do all the time. we all need a map at sometime in the job as long as you find the town city or village there is allways a petrol station there to ask thay all ways have a a to z of it drive safe
Dr Keys:
Must admit, the thing that bothers me most when I get a job is not finding the town, but finding WHERE the drop is within that town. I can spend just as much time once I am in a town looking round for the building I am going to as I have actually getting there in the 1st placeSteve
ditto mate, thatās where the sat nav is a great advantage. After all you canāt have a map of every town in the country, but the sat nav will take you to just about any postcode. I use the paper map for intercity journeys then once iām there i ask about or usuall y try to find a petrol station or postman.
Iām saving up for a tomtom
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After all you canāt have a map of every town in the country
Why not? I do, as do many others. 
Rookie, Keep chilled, man. I donāt think Lucy was really having a go.
Personally, I donāt like satnav as it is rarely geared up for trucks. I tried it for a time- cost a bloody fortune with the street level maps for Europe- only to find it trying to send me down a footpath. Also, I get worried when a woman is giving directions!!!
Itās horses for courses though. I almost would want it here because city navigation can be entertaining. Over there I guess I got so used to finding places that the general geographical knowledge became second nature and I never cared about abandoning the truck so I could collar someone for directions.
I did that down in Pennsylvania a few weeks back. I ended up using a beer stores phone then a cop came in ready to nag. He was great though. Blue light ā ā ā ā ā ā into the customer!!
Get some maps. Good UK map with some town plans in the back then you can find the areas on there and call the customer to get better directions.
I certainly wouldnāt suggest you are thick. Neither should you.
Do me a favour and eat a decent pasty in my name!
Cheers
Rob K:
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After all you canāt have a map of every town in the countryWhy not? I do, as do many others.
Me too. 
bobthedog:
Do me a favour and eat a decent pasty in my name!
My Mum makes the best, but then I think that goes for everyoneās Mum 
Rob K:
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After all you canāt have a map of every town in the countryWhy not? I do, as do many others.
a map with every single street and road in every single town and village in the whole of Great Britain ā¦ā ā ?
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Rob K:
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After all you canāt have a map of every town in the countryWhy not? I do, as do many others.
Yes. Problem?
I think the only ones I havenāt got are Devon and Cornwall.
Iād forgotten that photo Rob, please donāt tell me you keep them in alphabetical order in that big old crate?
Coffeeholic:
Iād forgotten that photo Rob, please donāt tell me you keep them in alphabetical order in that big old crate?
Well of course! 
I do the same with my CDs and Vinyl too, am I the only one then? 
Thing is though, does Northamptonshire come before or after North Hampshire? Thatās the burning question! Technically āNorthā preceeds āNorthamptonshireā because itās shorter, but the āaā in Northamptonshire comes before the āHā in North Hampshire, so?? Hmmmā¦
Rob K:
Well of course!Thing is though, does Northamptonshire come before or after North Hampshire? Thatās the burning question! Technically āNorthā preceeds āNorthamptonshireā because itās shorter, but the āaā in Northamptonshire comes before the āHā in North Hampshire, so?? Hmmmā¦
Try Saint Anne and Sainte Anne!
You keep your vinyl whats in AO, Rob? Alice through Vera toā¦?
Really, though, I think you should get satnavā¦! All those nasty pieces of tree cluttering up the cab!
I have 4 maps now. Alberta detailed, Canada General, Ontario detailed and United States of America. Note I kept them in AO!
This was said tongue in cheek! See, I can do it when I try!
Rob K:
Thing is though, does Northamptonshire come before or after North Hampshire?
If youāre following the same alphabetical order as a dictionary/encyclopaedia/telephone directory, then North Hampshire comes first - the end of a word always ātrumpsā a longer word with earlier letters.
Iām a paper map person, Iāve never tried SatNav, because I cant afford it.
The majority of our drops are regular - fortunately - so cutting out the need for maps at all.
However, we do get new drops, and often load ātodayā for tomorrow delivery. Now, being a day driver and no longer a tramper, i have access to my pc each night. This enables me to use sites like www.multimap.co.uk to suss out the finer details.
If I only have the company name, Iāll go to yell, or bt, to find the address to look up ā¦
Iāve even been know to phone my kids, mother or friend during the day for them to search these sites for me, should our illustrious TM drop a strange address on me during the day. Failing that Iāll phone another driver, as between us weāve got pretty much the entire country covered by paper maps.
Recent example: One of our āold handsā rang me to see if Iād been to a drop in North Wales. I hadnāt done this, and the only other driver who had done it was away on holiday, I called my daughter - aged 13. - who looked up the address on Streetmap, related it to me over the phone, and I, in turn, passed it on to the other driver. Result? One driver, complete with artic, right where he needed to be.
All Iām saying is thereās more than one way to skin a cat. What works for one, wonāt neccesarily work for everybody.
Thatās all folks. 