SAT NAV Error

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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I found some pictures on my lappy (clearing disk space) from a couple of years ago. Sat Nav error fun, Artic got stuck outside our house. For 3 days. :open_mouth:

Setting the scene, as you exit the A40 near our little spot of heaven, the road narrows quickly to a typical residential street, with a sharp 90 degree left hand bend. 30mph signage, plus two of these bad boys:

200 yds later, the road narrows to one lane, with lots of overhanging trees, and steepens down a windy typical cotswold hill sceneā€¦:

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Now by now, I would have stopped, reversed and retreated. But nope. Matey boy presses on to just beyoned the garage with the red door, decides to turn into a soft field entrance to do a three point turn and promptly gets bogged.

3 days laters, after three failed recovery attempts, our lodger leaves.

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Credit to the guy for cracking on! Who says truckers are quitters eh!

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Captain Caveman 76:
Credit to the guy for cracking on! Who says truckers are quitters eh!

:smiley:

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Why was it sat nav error? Looks like a regular driver error to me.

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Spanish agency man :grimacing:

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seth 70:
Spanish agency man :grimacing:

Agency espanolia eth eth eth :grimacing:

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Rentadent:
Why was it sat nav error? Looks like a regular driver error to me.

Fairly common (or was) on that lane as it runs parallel to the high street (A361) only 200 yds distant. Driver said as much too.

Perhaps sat nav interpretation errorā€¦

:laughing:

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seth 70:

seth 70:
Spanish agency man :grimacing:

Agency espanolia eth eth eth :grimacing:

If I recall, he was in his hi-viz flip flopsā€¦

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seth 70:
Spanish agency man :grimacing:

Rare to find a spaniard driving that ! Maybe he just wanted to go the pretty way!

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Looks like Burford to me, even if youā€™re foreign, all the ā€œbig roadsā€ off the roundabout and driver takes the smallest. I canā€™t even think why a car sat nav would send you down Barns Lane as thereā€™s no industry down there.

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seth 70:
Spanish agency man :grimacing:

:laughing: p.m.s.l :sunglasses: :sunglasses:

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As I live in Murcia but mother trucker here in UK these Cerezuela guys are no longer Spanish but now Bulgarian as they have now gone down the pay scale and use them and usually with there Bulgarian units as well so all I can say is ā€œyou pay peanuts you get monkeysā€ but if he was Spanish perhaps he was a little ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  driving on the other side the road and fancied a single carridgeway!!! Por favour