I was in a CPC course today and was pleased to hear, Tesco have banned the use of truck satnav use. If you are caught using a truck satnav you will be banned from their sites and could lose your job. I think this will be introduced by a lot of companies now and is in my opinion a good thing. You have to use a traditional map and they even check that you have one. Lets hope this continues and other firms quickly follow.
ho hum…thats the weekend mince kicked off now… 
Yawn…
the nodding donkey:
Yawn…
Nothing to yawn about here donkey. This is a good move by a leading supermarket. I hate SatNavs and I hate drivers who just follow them.
It’s not new always been the policy at tesco.
karl67:
It’s not new always been the policy at tesco.
Well it is new to me as I have not done Tesco before, I think its great.
Why would you need a satnav on Tesco store deliveries anyway, don’t they give you printed instructions and maps for each drop?
Follow a map? My firm are instaling live feed driver facing cameras, and have sacked drivers for daring to do anything other than grip the wheel with both hands, and blink only once per minute. I’d like to see one of our drivers glance at a map in a moment of need and get away with it.
As I said yesterday, all drivers should ignore all bull[zb]restrictions, at all times, forever. What are they gonna do then?
zb 'em!
ezydriver:
Follow a map? My firm are instaling live feed driver facing cameras, and have sacked drivers
I trust you will be handing them back their keys and wishing them good luck with that.
AndieHyde:
ezydriver:
Follow a map? My firm are instaling live feed driver facing cameras, and have sacked driversI trust you will be handing them back their keys and wishing them good luck with that.
As yet, I haven’t been handed the keys to one of their motors with such a camera in (well, 2 driver facing cameras and an infra-red light). But as soon as I am, there really will be a problem, because I’m definitely not driving one of those zb’ers.
The sad thing is, when I do hand them back their keys, I will be the only one to have done so. All the others moan, and say “well, what can you do?”. My blood boils.
If a driver is daft enough to blindly follow a sat-nav why would he/she have enough common sense to be able to find a route with a paper map 
“well, what can you do?”
3 things.
- Live with it, accept you will soon be microchipped and allocated for orderly disposal.
- Tell them why to go ■■■■■■■■. Find another job.
- Tape over the lens and shove bluetac into the mic. Get sacked.
If one is your pick, your taking up space and stealing our oxygen. Just give up.
2 would be mostly my response, shows backbone. But, it’s only going to fall on the next schmuck and as soon as the collective grow enough in numbers, resistance will be futile where ever you end up going next.
3 shows massive testicles. Go through all the naughty boy meetings and warning letters. Encourage others. Join a union
Just keep doing it until they hand you a P45. Start legal proceedings, ■■■■ up as much of their resorces fighting you as you can. Stand tall, be the change you wish to see in the world.
The choice is yours.
your paid to drive its your job, drive. Tesco have always banned sat navs, in the old days there was no sat nav, head towards xyx take a left.
as a driver your are expected to have an extensive knowledge of the the uk roads
ezydriver:
Follow a map? My firm are instaling live feed driver facing cameras, and have sacked drivers
What firm do you work for?
Anyway,
Tesco have had this policy for a while, one of the reason why I was put off joining them.
May not be a issue for a tramper who has 1-3 drops a week or someone with a regular run. Multi drop driver with 20+ deliveries a day with different drops each day might not be so fun. Yeh, you can come in early to plan your route and crap but why if you can just use a prat nav.
UKtramp:
the nodding donkey:
Yawn…Nothing to yawn about here donkey. This is a good move by a leading supermarket. I hate SatNavs and I hate drivers who just follow them.
So co—pilot is not a satnav ?
So effectively blaming the device rather than the driver.
karl67:
It’s not new always been the policy at tesco.
For over 10yrs it’s been the policy for anyone Driving a tesco truck shouldn’t use a satnav, but this was before dedicated truck satnavs where sold. I remember in the days before they got rid of their own drivers doing store runs out of Doncaster, and you’d see drivers reaching down and putting the satnavs in the windscreen as soon as they where out the exit barriers
UKtramp:
I was in a CPC course today and was pleased to hear, Tesco have banned the use of truck satnav use. If you are caught using a truck satnav you will be banned from their sites and could lose your job. I think this will be introduced by a lot of companies now and is in my opinion a good thing. You have to use a traditional map and they even check that you have one. Lets hope this continues and other firms quickly follow.
When are you meeting up with Dozy??
tachograph:
If a driver is daft enough to blindly follow a sat-nav why would he/she have enough common sense to be able to find a route with a paper map
To true 
Thursday I had to go to Workington , came of M6 at Carlisle and saw signs for Workington and followed them as the new road was not on sat nav , if I followed sat nav I would have gone through city centre
Navs can be handy but can also be a pain in the arse. I use a car spec Garmin Nuvi58 but only maybe the last few km of an unknown address. Long live the paper map…