m4rky:
hiabman:
Balls to SatNav blunder accusations! Sometimes [zb] happens.
We go where we’re sent.
If you’re committed and past the point of no return occasionally this kind of nightmare scenario ensues.
Talk of blunders and pontification really does grate.Ha ha ha “we go where were sent” - Your route takes you off of the edge of a cliff?? [zb]!
Sauce.
Cheeky ■■■■■■.
Is that not essentially what we do as drivers? Go where we’re sent?
Edge of a cliff my arse.
I’m just saying ■■■■ happens.
I don’t think of myself as anything sweetie. Just pointing out that too many people are far too ready to take offense on behalf of others. And your one of them. The ■■■■■■ still stands by the way.
I’ve got capital idea, lets not call anybody anything at all. Just give them all a number instead, and by the way you cant have an opinion, or express yourself either. We’ll call it Mumsnet.
Freddie - unprofessional driver 
Makes me laugh all these the hardest bit of driving we do is a trunk run judging us drivers who go into central London with wide loads etc , we might have the odd mishap but that’s because we go into places which would you handing your lisense in . 
You dont know me yet you throw abuse by calling me a ■■■■■■ because of an opinion/view?
Surely this is a forum for discussion and debate, why demean yourself and make yourself look uneducated by not contributing intelligently and throwing abuse? Why would you do that to yourself?
‘Unprofessional driver’ eh? Well… you said it…
Just calling it how I see it. I don’t mind you saying I’m seemingly uneducated either, because I don’t have skin thinner than a Durex Featherlite…
Stop it Dave, he’s not worth it…
F-reds:
Just calling it how I see it. I don’t mind you saying I’m seemingly uneducated either, because I don’t have skin thinner than a Durex Featherlite…
I can assure you i have extremely thick skin and am used to more colourful language than anything you could possibly throw at me/anything heard at the average Brit truck stop, ex military (Special Air Service 22Rgt B Squadron) saw to that! I just dont understand why anyone would resort to name calling on a public forum thats all.
AndrewG:
F-reds:
Just calling it how I see it. I don’t mind you saying I’m seemingly uneducated either, because I don’t have skin thinner than a Durex Featherlite…I can assure you i have extremely thick skin and am used to more colourful language than anything you could possibly throw at me/anything heard at the average Brit truck stop, ex military (Special Air Service 22Rgt B Squadron) saw to that! I just dont understand why anyone would resort to name calling on a public forum thats all.
LOL my arse guess you were on the Herald of Free Enterprise too, and to be honest have met far more racist ex pats living in Spain than I have met racists in the UK, common comment from them was “Don’t know how you can keep living in the UK with all them bloody foreigners” Irony not being their strongest point
raymundo:
0FLIPping eck, he made a complete FLOP of that !!
quote … A lorry driver who smashed into a listed house in a narrow village street in a suspected ‘sat nav blunder’ has been arrested.
The lorry driver crashed into a brick wall damaging the historic home in the quaint village of Woolpit, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Flipflops strike again. They should ban the lot of them coming/working/living here. Cause nothing but trouble wherever they go. I can’t do with the [zb]s.
I got sometimes the Company Name,but then i got a different then on the Company house Wall. (COOP Thurrock)
I got a Postcode,but sometimes two different postcode with no explanation which one is it
I got no Street Name.
And that minimum once a Month. Now find it 
(You just follow the satnav without knowing where you will end up)
Immigrant:
I got sometimes the Company Name,but then i got a different then on the Company house Wall. (COOP Thurrock)
I got a Postcode,but sometimes two different postcode with no explanation which one is it
I got no Street Name.
And that minimum once a Month. Now find it
Any decent driver would use other tools available to him to find the correct address rather than carrying on and getting stuck because of an admin blunder. That’s why you lot should be banned from driving here because you don’t have a clue.
Carl Usher:
Immigrant:
I got sometimes the Company Name,but then i got a different then on the Company house Wall. (COOP Thurrock)
I got a Postcode,but sometimes two different postcode with no explanation which one is it
I got no Street Name.
And that minimum once a Month. Now find itAny decent driver would use other tools available to him to find the correct address rather than carrying on and getting stuck because of an admin blunder. That’s why you lot should be banned from driving here because you don’t have a clue.
It’s not rocket science is it, you bang in a postcode on the Sat-Nav, check the street/road name matches the paperwork, and if there are some bits on the route that may look a bit iffy, you crack out the truckers map and if possible check google street view.
A bit strong to say “you lot” though Carl, as the cockups like the one on this thread are a tiny minority…
However I do have to wonder why the driver even started to make that turn, as he/she didn’t have a prayer of making that turn and should of known it! But again, we ALL do silly things when situations get desperate, it’s far too easy to judge when just an observer…
But on the bright side, now I know where I parked my truck!
They made the turn because satnav. That’s exactly my point. Too thick to think for themselves or stop and ask someone/ask another driver before leaving for the best route etc. Although it’s increasingly becoming the same with our native drivers, back in the day drivers used to navigate from landmarks and memory. You try giving directions like “go to the roundabout where Asda is then turn left until you get to the BP and then turn right” and they look at you like you’ve got 2 heads because they spend all their time looking at their satnav screen rather than looking at what’s out of window and note/memorise visual cues so they’ve absolutely no idea where the Asda or BP is.
Anyone who claims to be Ex SAS certainly isn’t. just sayin’. 
dozy:
Makes me laugh all these the hardest bit of driving we do is a trunk run judging us drivers who go into central London with wide loads etc , we might have the odd mishap but that’s because we go into places which would you handing your lisense in .
…the odd mishap…
What drugs were you on last night?
Just wondering about how many here have been caught out when following Sat Nav, especially when they first came in? I know on the odd occasion I was, not so badly as the Driver in the OP to be fair, but it has happened.
I think they are a great aid to driving, but only when used with common sense, road and route knowledge, and the good old fashioned brain, eyes and gob!
To be fair though don’t see how this lad could push on past the point of no return and end up like he has, unless maybe he is a brand new Driver, with zero experience, which is possible.
If there was a case for Get Out And Look it was here!
MickM
Steve-o:
Arrested why? Unless he ignored a weight or width restriction what’s the grounds for arrest? Even if he ignored a weight restriction that’s still hardly an arrestable offence is it? Damage occurred so what. Exchange insurance details and be on your way after recovery.
Arrested for careless driving. http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/update_lorry_driver_arrested_after_crashing_into_house_in_woolpit_1_4443563
MTM12:
Just wondering about how many here have been caught out when following Sat Nav, especially when they first came in? I know on the odd occasion I was, not so badly as the Driver in the OP to be fair, but it has happened.I think they are a great aid to driving, but only when used with common sense, road and route knowledge, and the good old fashioned brain, eyes and gob!
To be fair though don’t see how this lad could push on past the point of no return and end up like he has, unless maybe he is a brand new Driver, with zero experience, which is possible.
If there was a case for Get Out And Look it was here!
MickM
I’ve been caught out before and I’ll be caught out again. Mainly it’s A roads where you assume they’ll be ok that I find can catch you out as Im always very careful about routes on country lanes so ring ahead on those. Also if you’re somewhere you dont know despite your best intentions you can end up in the left lane for e.g when you needed to split lanes of use all of the right lane to turn left. Any driver who says they’ve never been in such a situation is liar.
AndrewG:
I can assure you i have extremely thick skin and am used to more colourful language than anything you could possibly throw at me/anything heard at the average Brit truck stop, ex military (Special Air Service 22Rgt B Squadron) saw to that.
Quality You’re my favourite for a long time. Which one through the window were you?
AndrewG:
F-reds:
Just calling it how I see it. I don’t mind you saying I’m seemingly uneducated either, because I don’t have skin thinner than a Durex Featherlite…I can assure you i have extremely thick skin and am used to more colourful language than anything you could possibly throw at me/anything heard at the average Brit truck stop, ex military (Special Air Service 22Rgt B Squadron) saw to that! I just dont understand why anyone would resort to name calling on a public forum thats all.
No, you clearly do not have thick skin, that’s why you are arguing with the Internet over you own issues.
Your clearly not a driver otherwise you would have been in the “average” truck stop to find yourself surrounded by ex military, most drivers I know are ex forces, oddly enough though none of them shout about it, I’ve been working closely with one guy for nearly six months and only just found out he was ex forces.
Coming on here trying to make a point valid by telling everyone you’re ex sas is tragic fella, one of my closest friends is ex marine and sbs who served NI, gulf 1, Bosnia and many others, he now works as close protection for an overseas royal family, does he tell anyone that listens about his past, nope, as my late father used to say in a broad Yorkshire accent " Them that shout always have nowt" .
I am sure you were at every major conflict, watched the ferry leave the dock, used your own chalk and can blindside with your eyes closed having driven non stop to spain and back pulling a 150 ton crane whilst running various Galaxies off the side of the road in order to make your slot.
Weapons grade muppet ( no offence to any furry hand operated toys )
