bigdavehull:
well with it been my first week in an artic, im enjoying it but finding that postcodes arnt always right and you end up having to turn it round in the hardest of places or going miles out the way
whats everyone else do? same or is it just me? twice in the last week have been difficult to find
One of the worst ones i did was follow the sat nave to Sainsbury Dartford. I ended up on the right road BUT separated by a housing estate. Long reverses, much embarassment and a missed tip.
Nice to know i’m not alone then ,Yeah if you don’t know it you end up on a housing estate, fortunately i stopped at a roundabout and got out and checked out the road ahead on foot, the road stopped & went into a footpath with bollards and no easy place to turn around in an artic, that was because i exited at the second juntion after the bridge, 1B iirc should of exited at 1A ,
I used to use these things called Maps. The phillips street atlases are brilliant.
I would look up the address, the street name in the index would have the first part of the postcode with the street name so you were pretty sure you had the right road, then looked it up in the pages where you would find an A5 illustrated map of the area where you wanted to be. Even most of the farms had the names in the books.
The biggest getting lost issues I had were being given registered address’ instead of delivery addresses. Often turning up at a small high street solicitors office with a dozen pallets always made them worry.
Once had a very wrong reload address was in antwerp,i had maps back then no sat naff, the address i had been given was a house in a housing estate, which belonged to the MD/owner of the company that was supposed to be collecting from, it turned out that the company address was Nr bruges and the load was still in transit en route somewhere in the ukraine, And wouldn’t arrive in belguim for 2 possibly 3 days, but as the unit i was in needed it’s M.O.T the next day, i came back empty,lol
Honked:
Part of the job, always has been. Before these new fandangled gadgets we used to have half an address and lots of AtoZ’s to work to, they told you where the road is and that’s all you got.
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Gonna sound like a right old ■■■■ now but you lot don’t know you are born. Phones, Sat navs, google ■■■■ earth, truck router…■■.ffs you have more tecnological help today than James Bond and the Apollo space missions combined…and you still get lost? Jeeez
At 21 yrs old in the days (when truckers were men )you had to use your loaf and a map my first run was just the name of a street and ‘Catford’…320 miles away and pre M25 days
I didn’t even know where Catford was let alone what area of London, I went down there like a lamb to the slaughter
The best one was street name and ‘Portsmouth’ I got down there (luckily it was 1pallet so took the firm’s pick up down there) to cut a long story short after touring aimlessly around Portsmouth, I found out (after finding a phone box ) that it was actually for a small workshop in Portsmouth Yorks.
Lucky for me it was my boss who showed me on a map the way down to Portsmouth South coast so I was in the clear.
Today I use the (car type) sat nav as guide only and a low bridge map and done that on both UK and Euro, I nearly knocked down a small 17th Century Chapel turning around after getting lost down a narrow road in Belgium a few years ago but I won’t go into that , but as I said you lot don’t know you are ■■■■■■ born so stop winging
many many years ago i got a good one…it was a post box in warrington! told the boss shall i take 22 tonnes of paper to the post office?..he got me the proper address
I have one of the TomTom truck satnavs. Only had one issue where it tried to send me down a road that was 7.5t b road. I think it was quite a new restriction though. It has tried the trick of sending me down very narrow streets to go left and left again to get back on route. But this is only if I ignored its route to start with, and the issue is more parked cars rather than the actual street being narrow. I check the route with a Phillips truckers atlas. Satnav seems best for avoiding the majority of the 7,5 limits as they aren’t on the truckers atlas.
Honked:
Part of the job, always has been. Before these new fandangled gadgets we used to have half an address and lots of AtoZ’s to work to, they told you where the road is and that’s all you got.
)
Gonna sound like a right old ■■■■ now but you lot don’t know you are born. Phones, Sat navs, google [zb] earth, truck router…■■.ffs you have more tecnological help today than James Bond and the Apollo space missions combined…and you still get lost? Jeeez
At 21 yrs old in the days (when truckers were men )you had to use your loaf and a map my first run was just the name of a street and ‘Catford’…320 miles away and pre M25 days
I didn’t even know where Catford was let alone what area of London, I went down there like a lamb to the slaughter
The best one was street name and ‘Portsmouth’ I got down there (luckily it was 1pallet so took the firm’s pick up down there) to cut a long story short after touring aimlessly around Portsmouth, I found out (after finding a phone box ) that it was actually for a small workshop in Portsmouth Yorks.
Lucky for me it was my boss who showed me on a map the way down to Portsmouth South coast so I was in the clear.
Today I use the (car type) sat nav as guide only and a low bridge map and done that on both UK and Euro, I nearly knocked down a small 17th Century Chapel turning around after getting lost down a narrow road in Belgium a few years ago but I won’t go into that , but as I said you lot don’t know you are [zb] born so stop winging
Plus wan slim dusty I remember my first waggon fine nag Jimmy lou Mcmaiirghhh etc etc ohhh the days and so on and bleather rabble tom tom …
Honked:
Part of the job, always has been. Before these new fandangled gadgets we used to have half an address and lots of AtoZ’s to work to, they told you where the road is and that’s all you got.
)
Gonna sound like a right old ■■■■ now but you lot don’t know you are born. Phones, Sat navs, google [zb] earth, truck router…■■.ffs you have more tecnological help today than James Bond and the Apollo space missions combined…and you still get lost? Jeeez
At 21 yrs old in the days (when truckers were men )you had to use your loaf and a map my first run was just the name of a street and ‘Catford’…320 miles away and pre M25 days
I didn’t even know where Catford was let alone what area of London, I went down there like a lamb to the slaughter
The best one was street name and ‘Portsmouth’ I got down there (luckily it was 1pallet so took the firm’s pick up down there) to cut a long story short after touring aimlessly around Portsmouth, I found out (after finding a phone box ) that it was actually for a small workshop in Portsmouth Yorks.
Lucky for me it was my boss who showed me on a map the way down to Portsmouth South coast so I was in the clear.
Today I use the (car type) sat nav as guide only and a low bridge map and done that on both UK and Euro, I nearly knocked down a small 17th Century Chapel turning around after getting lost down a narrow road in Belgium a few years ago but I won’t go into that , but as I said you lot don’t know you are [zb] born so stop winging
Plus wan slim dusty I remember my first waggon fine nag Jimmy lou Mcmaiirghhh etc etc ohhh the days and so on and bleather rabble tom tom …
Oh yeh that’s right, I forgot to add that bit then there was the Albion with no heater blah …blah…crash box… stuck Shap…etc blah blah…in digs…frozen diesel…blah etc. Kates cabin
Btw just flicked through some of your posts.
Looking forward to some of your 'trucking tales ’ …when you get the stabilisers off your motor
Our office gives us postcodes that don’t take you to the place you actually need! What you need to do is get the post code off the office, they don’t give a zip if it is the place or the general area!!!
Then get yourself a contact who has been with the firm for ages and who knows where most of the places are, then get him to “talk you in”, once you get there bookmark your location on the sat nav and then you have it for future jobs!!!
Our firm has all the vehicle cab numbers in the manual!! Handy!!
Yup I’ve been hopelessly lost in Manchester at 3am thanks to a map and directions that were 20yrs out of date and the map had been cropped so it didn’t show the critical junction
A decent trucknav should get you to within a few minutes or at least on the right road/street/industrial estate, then if you’re still not sure phone the place or the office. Mk1 eyeball and brain help too, if satnav shows the the time or distance rising then you’re probably heading away from your destination. Deliveries to rural destinations can be a bit of a nightmare as the same postcode can cover 4 or 5 properties miles apart and/or hidden up tracks, Wigtownshire can be very ‘interesting’ basically you just have to get as close as you can then ask and hope they’re local
Once you’re there (and likely to have to go there again) enter ‘my location’ into your satnav favourites and give it the name you got sent to.
try doing it in Ireland where theres no postcodes apart from about 10 areas of Dublin,other than that theres nothing to help you apart from your brain and a good guess
109LWB:
I wouldn’t ever navigate by a postcode. Some postcode areas are miles big, you could get yourself in some serious issues if you follow a satnav blindly.
+1,never rely on a sat nav,i don’t own one and never will,dont trust them
109LWB:
I wouldn’t ever navigate by a postcode. Some postcode areas are miles big, you could get yourself in some serious issues if you follow a satnav blindly.
+1,never rely on a sat nav,i don’t own one and never will,dont trust them
Tell you what mate I used to say the same and laugh at the young guys that had them when they first came out. I got one as a present off the wife and wouldn’t be without one now. As long as you use them as a guide only, with a map as back up, and don’t do everything they tell you they are spot on.
I hardly ever now get out to ask directions as I used to, and have chucked away all my A to Zs (which were all useless now anyway as they date from the 80s ) but mostly because the print is too small for me now and I need longer arms to read them
Just keep an open mind and try one, I guarantee you will like it.
109LWB:
I wouldn’t ever navigate by a postcode. Some postcode areas are miles big, you could get yourself in some serious issues if you follow a satnav blindly.
+1,never rely on a sat nav,i don’t own one and never will,dont trust them
Tell you what mate I used to say the same and laugh at the young guys that had them when they first came out. I got one as a present off the wife and wouldn’t be without one now. As long as you use them as a guide only, with a map as back up, and don’t do everything they tell you they are spot on.
I hardly ever now get out to ask directions as I used to, and have chucked away all my A to Zs (which were all useless now anyway as they date from the 80s ) but mostly because the print is too small for me now and I need longer arms to read them
Just keep an open mind and try one, I guarantee you will like it.
theres been no point in asking directions in the uk for years…its either a blank stare,or if there pink,there flipflops with no speekda English ,you cant park anywhere near a petrol station,plus if you can,then they wont know anyway for the previous reasons… satnav,and a bit of intuition wins for me,especially on the otherside of the chunnel.plus theres always the advantage of having a good argument with the condescending English voiced ■■■■■ when shes telling you where to turn etc…il turn when im good and ready to turn,not when you tell me ya cow…works for me…
I’ve been to some jobs recently and used longitude and latitude in the sat nav as an address wasn’t avalilbleand the next best thing was directions from someone who didn’t exactly know where they were or how they got there ,some remote transmitter stations was where I ended up .
but you lot don’t know you are born. Phones, Sat navs, google ■■■■ earth, truck router…■■.ffs 
you have more tecnological help today than James Bond and the Apollo space missions combined…and you still get lost? 
Jeeez
) that it was actually for a small workshop in Portsmouth Yorks. 
then there was the Albion with no heater blah …blah…crash box… stuck Shap…etc blah blah…in digs…frozen diesel…blah etc. Kates cabin 
