I don’t personally use a sat nav. Co pilot truck if I have to go to London or Nottingham in the artic, but that’s not often. Day to day, multi drop round Leicester I use google maps.
I thought a couple of weeks back that I would make my life easier by getting an az of Leicester. So I nipped in my local garage to pick one up. They don’t sell them! I tried a dozen garages and not one sold them!
I did get one eventually off flea bay, I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az. Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
johnteller:
I don’t personally use a sat nav. Co pilot truck if I have to go to London or Nottingham in the artic, but that’s not often. Day to day, multi drop round Leicester I use google maps.
I thought a couple of weeks back that I would make my life easier by getting an az of Leicester. So I nipped in my local garage to pick one up. They don’t sell them! I tried a dozen garages and not one sold them!
I did get one eventually off flea bay, I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az. Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
Moral of that story is buy a sat nav then. 
They do make life easier if used properly.
If you’ve done the job without one, then you don’t need one of those ■■■■ truck designated things, just buy a bog standard cheapie…job sorted.
There’s no way I’m forking out one penny on a sat nav. Got google maps and copilot on my phone and that’s all I need. Besides, I’ve got a Leicester az now. I had a Tomtom 6200 professional for a few days, took it back! I’m not carrying another device with me, I have no need of it. Besides, at least half the drops I know anyway by now.
I’m just commenting that if you don’t have a sat nav, phone signal, credit on your phone (if you need a map for whatever reason) you can’t buy one anymore. A sad indictment that those days are gone.
johnteller:
I did get one eventually off flea bay, I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az. Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
TBH that’s rare, much rarer than the A to Z being out of date which it is the moment it hits the printing press, let alone gets to the shops. And if their Satnav or phone packs up it is still MUCH cheaper to go to a shop and buy a new one than buy a bread tray full of A to Zs to cover the UK, not that they do as they don’t cover everywhere unlike a Satnav.
johnteller:
I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az.
I remember…
The old days when I nipped into the local garage and memorised the way from an A to Z.
johnteller:
I don’t personally use a sat nav. Co pilot truck if I have to go to London or Nottingham in the artic, but that’s not often. Day to day, multi drop round Leicester I use google maps.
I thought a couple of weeks back that I would make my life easier by getting an az of Leicester. So I nipped in my local garage to pick one up. They don’t sell them! I tried a dozen garages and not one sold them!
I did get one eventually off flea bay, I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az. Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
And what’s the difference between sat nav and Google maps
And how would it make it easier just going around Leicester especially if that’s where you live
johnteller:
Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
Some sell but doubt its in the numbers they used to. Trouble is, maps have a big flaw - you have to know where you are before you can find your way to the destination. Sat navs already know this.
Plus I don’t think the police really like people reading maps while driving - bit like watching films etc, kindof bad form and definitely not cricket. You can stop but be prepared for the traffic warden nazis giving out 60 quid fines. A few of those and you’ve paid for a sat nav where you don’t have to stop.
What happens - i buy a new one, fix the screen on the old one and sell it on eBay.
Can’t say what type as I don’t want Robroy’s missus calling me and complaining he’s staring at the corner ranting about those ruddy steering wheel attendants again! 
As pointed out above, isn’t co pilot a sat nav?
yourhavingalarf:
johnteller:
I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az.
I remember…
The old days when I nipped into the local garage and memorised the way from an A to Z.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
so do i.though it helped when you ripped the page out that you needed from one in the services. 
I’m just commenting that if you don’t have a sat nav, phone signal, credit on your phone (if you need a map for whatever reason) you can’t buy one anymore. A sad indictment that those days are gone.
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yep,i know what you mean there,
last week my farmer giles were giving me gyp and i went to the chemist for some leeches.
imagine my sirprise when they told me they stopped selling them 150 years ago and i would have to make do with an icepack and some preperation ouch!!!
dieseldog999:
i went to the chemist for some leeches.
You need to visit the dodgy housing estate of any town where you’ll find the local “chemist” and usually the leeches will be hanging around them. 
dieseldog999:
yep,i know what you mean there,
last week my farmer giles were giving me gyp and i went to the chemist for some leeches.
imagine my sirprise when they told me they stopped selling them 150 years ago and i would have to make do with an icepack and some preperation ouch!!!
This! The world moves on, move with it.
yourhavingalarf:
johnteller:
I remember the old days when you drove to the city of your drop and nipped into a local garage and brought an az.
I remember…
The old days when I nipped into the local garage and memorised the way from an A to Z.
I used to do that too.
Have trouble memorizing the way from shop back to truck now…
No-one cares that you read maps you boring ■■■■
trevHCS:
johnteller:
Have people really become so reliant on sat navs that maps no longer sell at all? What if your sat nav/phone packs up?
Some sell but doubt its in the numbers they used to. Trouble is, maps have a big flaw - you have to know where you are before you can find your way to the destination. Sat navs already know this.
yeah, fair point , but ……………………………………if your sat nav fails do you ! know where you are ? just to add , as some one who delivers to some very rural places there are often occasions when I really don’t know where I actually am . 
A month ago my Sat Nav gave up midweek. No problem their. Just downloaded trial version of Co. Pilot onto phone for rest of week. Ordered a cheap Chinese sat Nav at weekend from eBay.
The next week my phone gave up.
Fortunately first couple of days deliveries/reloads was easy as I’d either been to them before or they were easy to find.
Then I got some directions off other drivers or asked them to put post code in their sat Nav and pin pointed the destination on my route map.
The hardest thing was facing the Mrs at the weekend. She was worried sick all week with me not calling her. Ouch
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robroy:
First day back off hols yesterday, discovered I’d lost the ■■■ lighter charger plug end, now my sat nav has ran out of charge. 
I aint got a sat nav ALL WEEK !
What am I to do, can somebody come and rescue me I dare not move from this spot, I’m 300 miles away from home ffs! I’m traumatised here.
Any suggestions anybody? 
Time to get on your bunk and sleep [emoji39]
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Absolutely shocking isnt it?
Imagine not buying a map, looking up the street name at the back, finding the page, cross referencing the grids, finding the street, planning what route you need to take and stopping every so often to make sure youre still on the right route and instead you use a piece of technology which makes your job 100 times easier and quicker.
Why oh why cant we go back to the good old days
Was it Charles Dickens who wrote “it is often better to travel hopefully than to actually arrive at your destination”, sat-navs must have taken a lot of the adventure out of journeys? Anyway, I’m going back to my 1973 road atlas of Great Britain now! 