Once again, I’m with robroy (we’ll have to start dating) I’m 69 in June and can find my way round most places. As he says, sat navs are handy for the last bit, but as for relying totally on them, bollox. I also prefer a gear stick and no poxy brakes coming on for nothing or a wheel shudder cos I didn’t signal to an empty road to change lanes. Etc, etc,etc.
Drift:
I aim at postmen/women or couriers for info near delivery addresses
What ! You shoot them ? [emoji379][emoji402]
They’ll definitely give you directions then. Lol.
peterm:
Once again, I’m with robroy (we’ll have to start dating) I’m 69 in June and can find my way round most places.
Think my luck is changing 
From bad to worse
The finding your way round bit scares me.
anyway you’re too old for me, and I am also too old to be a toyboy 
I remember years ago reading about a guy in America who bought an RV and took it on the highway. He set the cruise control then went in the back to make a cup of tea! And the most astonishing part of this was that
a - He sued the manufacturer for not making it clear the CC didnt drive for him and
b - HE WON! Hundreds of thousands if I remember correctly
Whist in cab technology has nade people complacent,all the technology in the world cant compensate nor help your general muppet on the road
I use sat nav all the time, even when I know where I’m going. It displays speed, distance, time of arrival, junction distance etc. Invaluable for calculating breaks etc. TomTom start 25 brilliant! Car Satnav and common sense!!
I total
I absolutely agree with this post and almost wrote something similar a few weeks ago.
I passed my class 1 20 years ago and drove trucks for 5 or 6 years i never had a mobile phone, sat nav and it was all manual boxes. I drove for a construction products firm delivering to building sites, shops etc and some were a nightmare to find. That said i manged and got on with it with no real issues.
I then had 15 years away from driving and just came back to it a few months ago.
Jesus what a difference, I now have 2 trackers in the cab, mobile phone, sat nav, on board weigher and an auto box.
Is it easier? God yes
However this is the issue I feel there is no real skill to truck driver any more.
Get your ticket tap the post code in the sat nav put the truck in drive and just turn the wheel now and again .
I personally do use a sat nav but always cross reference it with a good old fashioned map.
To prove this me and another driver left the same place at the same time a few weeks ago. He just followed the sat nav whilst i did the above. I was there nearly an hour before him and unloaded by the time he arrived.
Whatever tech you have in the cab it can’t replace good old common sense.
Sadly lacking in today’s society
well imm from the age of maps but i now use the sat nav the difference between then and now is you used to be able to drive along looking at your map of stop and take a look or stop and ask someone but now any of these actions would land you with a fine of get you nicked times change embrace the techy stuff it makes life easier
We warned the girl from the office next door once, that M1 was chocker due to a roll over all the way from on the Nothbound side, trying be helpful as we knew she was from Leicester.
She replied “is Leicester north of here?”
We were in St Albans. Bless her.
The-Snowman:
I remember years ago reading about a guy in America who bought an RV and took it on the highway. He set the cruise control then went in the back to make a cup of tea! And the most astonishing part of this was that
a - He sued the manufacturer for not making it clear the CC didnt drive for him and
b - HE WON! Hundreds of thousands if I remember correctly
Whist in cab technology has nade people complacent,all the technology in the world cant compensate nor help your general muppet on the road
Good story but an Urban Legend. snopes.com/autos/techno/cruise.asp
These days, the victim(s) will often be described as an older couple, people you’d find it likely to believe would be baffled by the technology. In earlier versions from around the time of the Great Gasoline Shortage in the U.S., you’d be told the victim was an Arab with too much money and too little sense. In versions earlier than that, the victims were unfamiliar with the technology not because they were new to this country or plain mechanical klutzs, but rather because the technology itself was new.
Read more at snopes.com/autos/techno/crui … vWgJ81k.99
I am a new driver but I never* use a sat nav - but then i’m not on multi-drop work, I drive a low loader delivering either to farms or dealers and usually get time the evening before to have a good look at the map and a peep on streetview etc. That really is the ■■■■ when you have a trailer that cuts corners like a bugger and often have machinery which won’t like a brush with overhanging trees.
*I say never but i have used the Google maps feature on my iPhone for the last few miles or to get my bearings.
Ive been out with another driver recently who had to have his satnav on even tho i know where im going
To me they are all arse about face . you only ever need to know the last mile or two of journey . instead it tells you to turn left out the yard !!!
Idiots
Mind you the only piece of modern technology i want we never get : a DAB radio . it cant be that expensive
boredwivdrivin:
Ive been out with another driver recently who had to have his satnav on even tho i know where im goingTo me they are all arse about face . you only ever need to know the last mile or two of journey . instead it tells you to turn left out the yard !!!
IdiotsMind you the only piece of modern technology i want we never get : a DAB radio . it cant be that expensive
Completely off topic but I once had to spend a day with a new 7.5 driver my old place had set on.
Not saying he’d lied his way into the job, or that my TM at the time would set on anyone with a 7.5 entitlement. But this guy carried more pairs of specs with him than Elton John, if he used the ones he needed to drive in, they couldn’t focus on a satnav.
Apparently his old employers didn’t expect them to bother with the tacho (yeah, right)
I told him he was only being allowed to drive my brand spanking new 13 plate motor at the time, because I wanted to get back early. Gave him a total list of do’s and dont’s. And with that he reversed into the first and only tree within about a 1000 yard radius.
I don’t work there anymore, but he does, and according to one of my mates, he still has to night out if he gets the Manchester run.