Am I just old fashioned or what ?
I don’t think I could ever trust these fancy programs to manage my routes. I will rarely look up a post code, only if I’m to deliever a kitten to somewhere I haven’t been before and don’t have maps to cover the area. Doing tramping I never know where I’m off to in the truck before the same day mostly. It’s just good old fashioned map reading or phone-a-friend. Mostly it’s just a question of getting in to the right area and then use the nose, the crystal ball or just plain female intuition…LOL.
Owens_girl:
Am I just old fashioned or what ?
I don’t think I could ever trust these fancy programs to manage my routes. I will rarely look up a post code, only if I’m to deliever a kitten to somewhere I haven’t been before and don’t have maps to cover the area. Doing tramping I never know where I’m off to in the truck before the same day mostly. It’s just good old fashioned map reading or phone-a-friend. Mostly it’s just a question of getting in to the right area and then use the nose, the crystal ball or just plain female intuition…LOL.
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Jo
thats why i have a bag full of maps in my car. somewhere in the region of 30 A-Zs i think?
fifty a-z’s at £6 a go… = £300 plus truckers atlas…£315…
get 2nd hand laptop for about the same…plays dvds…load up ms autoroute and get a sat receiver and voila…
i use sat nav all the time alongside my truckers atlas, and mk1 eyeball …i dont have to many problems with it…i’m slowly adding bridge hts to it…i may make the file available on this forum…
as for paragon, glad im not the only one who dont like it…!!
beauty of laptop with satnav is it is easy to read in the dark !!
Logistics Loader:
fifty a-z’s at £6 a go… = £300 plus truckers atlas…£315…
get 2nd hand laptop for about the same…plays dvds…load up ms autoroute and get a sat receiver and voila…
i use sat nav all the time alongside my truckers atlas, and mk1 eyeball …i dont have to many problems with it…i’m slowly adding bridge hts to it…i may make the file available on this forum…
as for paragon, glad im not the only one who dont like it…!!
beauty of laptop with satnav is it is easy to read in the dark !!
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the ones i buy are a tenner a hit. i have spent over £400 plus truckers atlases. i buy them as they are updated
leehellcat:
I think I have been to the sand and gravel place there.
I reckon, off m25 at J6, then off onto A25 westbound, Then about the second right turn after you go over the M23 (cormongers road). I went sailing past it, as it don’t look like a real road. Go along there for a bit, and the sand works comes up on your left. The road should have become Nutfield road by now, chilberton road comes up on your right.
No height limits as far as I know. And weight limits get ignored if they are only there to annoy me. but don’t think there is a weight limit until you get past the sand and gravel place.
dYou can ignore the weight restrictions but not the 6’ 6’’ physical width restriction just after the sand pit
Try again
Logistics Loader:
fifty a-z’s at £6 a go… = £300 plus truckers atlas…£315…
get 2nd hand laptop for about the same…plays dvds…load up ms autoroute and get a sat receiver and voila…
i use sat nav all the time alongside my truckers atlas, and mk1 eyeball …i dont have to many problems with it…i’m slowly adding bridge hts to it…i may make the file available on this forum…
as for paragon, glad im not the only one who dont like it…!!
beauty of laptop with satnav is it is easy to read in the dark !!
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the ones i buy are a tenner a hit. i have spent over £400 plus truckers atlases. i buy them as they are updated
It’s the OS maps he’s on about - the countywide ones. I’ve got the vast majority of them and wouldn’t be without them, they’re a God send. Any new Ind Est’s I come across which aren’t listed I just draw them on.
thats what i do Rob. if i come across something that is not listed, i add it both on the map and in the index at the back. i also add mini roundabouts etc if the map is not accurate
Id die rather than use modern technology ,Im a bit of a Luddite at heart! I do have Autoroute, which is pretty accurate, so if I get the postcode the night before, sometimes I’l look it up, but quite often I dont know untill I get into work that morning what I’ll be doing, so I dont really bother. I just rely on good old A-Z’s, & just amend them with little scribbles here & there. My absolute bibles are my Truckers Atlas with the bridge heights (all the pages are now loose as the ring binder spine thingy fell off about 4 years ago!) & my hard backed Greater London map. It cost me £25 about 15 years ago & it is now falling apart, but I really dont want to part with it!
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i use truckers atlas with the bridge hieghts, loads of old a to z, if i get postcode night before use autoroute to print out final destination, also have aa milemaster on the computer and you can specify hgv route to avoid low bridges you just put in youre running hieght and it calculates route for you
