Just found myself some temporary work doing Italy with a fridge.Although it’s been a good 10 years since venturing abroad I am wondering if,given the tricky out of the way nature of some European collection points,I can utilise any ggogle earth mapping to help me see the bigger picture when venturing into the more rural locations?
Is there a way to utilse my laptop without signing up for a contract that would be expensive for example?I have used a snooper syrius in the UK for a year with good results but can’t imagine it cutting the mustard in the remoter regions of Italy for example.Any feedback will be gratefully received?
Not sure about google maps but been using my trusty old tomtom 510 with full european maps for years and never let me down…even in remoter parts of Italy
Thanks Ripper,I only ask coz in a previous enquiry I put on the forum,someone replied saying that sat-navs are calibrated for the left hand drive operatives and road layouts reflect this situation.Must admit i’m bricking it a little after such a long time on milk runs here in the uk and my memories of Italy and some of their,let’s say-rudimentary-road systems,has me reaching for the valium bottle.
Welcome back to the fabulous world of Continental trucking.Maps and directions are the least of your worries.If I can explain in the simplest of terms.France and Italy are as busted as we are,the enforcement people are attempting to clear their national debts by imposing penalties on those in employment and work.US.Do on your travels adhere to the law of the land if you don’t expect to pay penalties which can be measured in 1,000’s.Other than that drive on the right and enjoy.And you may get some on this site telling you they have never had a prob,I haven’t but I get stopped in France almost weekly,sometimes twice by their traffic commisioners and Italy,well it never changes.
Sobering thought,can’t help but think given the scale of the present economic sitch that the fuzz of both France and Italy wouldn’t exactly be rectifying their respective countries national debts by virtue of fining truckers surely to god?I imagine they are paid relatively well?
spitfire69:
Thanks Ripper,I only ask coz in a previous enquiry I put on the forum,someone replied saying that sat-navs are calibrated for the left hand drive operatives and road layouts reflect this situation.Must admit i’m bricking it a little after such a long time on milk runs here in the uk and my memories of Italy and some of their,let’s say-rudimentary-road systems,has me reaching for the valium bottle.
I don’t think so… When I was driving to Poland with my friend, who’s using Sat Nav it was smart enaugh to know that in UK you drive on the left and in Europe on right…
spitfire69:
Thanks Ripper,I only ask coz in a previous enquiry I put on the forum,someone replied saying that sat-navs are calibrated for the left hand drive operatives and road layouts reflect this situation.Must admit i’m bricking it a little after such a long time on milk runs here in the uk and my memories of Italy and some of their,let’s say-rudimentary-road systems,has me reaching for the valium bottle.
I don’t think so… When I was driving to Poland with my friend, who’s using Sat Nav it was smart enaugh to know that in UK you drive on the left and in Europe on right…
there is a feature in menu for altering from right to left hand drive
if poss get the truck map sorted onto tomtom ,good map for europe
Not having the joys of trucking in France, nor Italy, but having been over to France in the car twice, to Brittany and then EuroDisney, I have used a Navman ic610 on my first trip, (About 4 years ago.) and latterly a TT1V3, (Last year.) without any problems at all.
Neither of them let me down, and sat nav mapping is getting better.
Just remember to alter the settings to reflect European driving.
Armagedon:
Welcome back to the fabulous world of Continental trucking.Maps and directions are the least of your worries.If I can explain in the simplest of terms.France and Italy are as busted as we are,the enforcement people are attempting to clear their national debts by imposing penalties on those in employment and work.US.Do on your travels adhere to the law of the land if you don’t expect to pay penalties which can be measured in 1,000’s.Other than that drive on the right and enjoy.And you may get some on this site telling you they have never had a prob,I haven’t but I get stopped in France almost weekly,sometimes twice by their traffic commisioners and Italy,well it never changes.
in my opinion armagedon, your doing something wrong if your getting stopped that often, as for france and italy attempting to clear their national debt by fining us, rubbish. back to the question, i havent used any of the specialist satnavs, i use a garmin and i cant fault it, i paid £120 for it on a whim
Thanks for all the input chaps…even the somewhat splenetic ones.This forum is the best thing i’ve encountered in a long time.Awesome in fact…Tight Nuts to you all.
gezt:
there is a feature in menu for altering from right to left hand drive
if poss get the truck map sorted onto tomtom ,good map for europe
that feature only reminds you to drive on the left of right, you don’t need it to be turned on, any mapping software automatically routs you the correct way for the country you are in.
With regard to countries giving us fines to pay their national debt, I would think the foreign trucks coming to the UK must be thinking the same with VOSA and their new on the spot fines…I have never seen them so busy as they are now
jimti:
With regard to countries giving us fines to pay their national debt, I would think the foreign trucks coming to the UK must be thinking the same with VOSA and their new on the spot fines…I have never seen them so busy as they are now
The big difference is the level of the fines, they were published in CM a few weeks ago and most are less than £100 and you need to be into serious tacho messing to get over that. It seems the Spanish have a fine with a commer in it for a mode switch violation, it seems these multi thousand euro fines for things like “laminating an EU authority” are becoming commonplace.
how do they check paperwork to see if it is not a mickey mouse one , ,we kept our paperwork inside a folder which had numerous plastic pages where the paper work would be kept clean and safe but could be pulled out for a doc,c check as and when required, as for fines well each land has its own list in fact we get the same moans on agerman site that i use all ways saying that it is not right and they would rather pay a fine at german levels ,which is lower but this is not the way they work , sorry you will never change the EU that much not in the next 10–20years i do belive
how do they check paperwork to see if it is not a mickey mouse one
I see where your going with this and to an extent agree with you, but 4,600 euro’s is an awfull lot of money for what could be (and it turned out to be) an genuine EC authorisation.
Nor recording a 100km car journey following 4 days off 2,100euro’s!!
Does that add up to a punishment that fits the crime??
