stop counting on the GPS

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jaws

jaws

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Following GPS route, 30-foot box truck becomes stuck on Engineer Pass

I was just up there in our Jeep. This IDIOT went a long way up before trying to turn around. Now the pass is blocked. This pass has some great scenery, but is rough at best. Also has large signs at both ends that say 4wheel drive and high clearance only beyond this point.
 
I borrowed a gps for a service call for my company, and it really helped a lot, even tho i am old enough that i can read a map. Just for giggles, two blocks from home, i turned it on to see what it would say.
It would have sent me at least two miles out of my way, in the wrong direction.
I just drove home.
 
Semis drive up our street and can barely make the turn. It's a block shorter than going to the stop light. :BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:
 
My buddy from Michigan came to visit me in Chicago... I told him to stop using the GPS as my directions were better... I grew up around here and know the streets better than the software...
 
gps is a fine tool,..but my faith lays with a good old rand mcnalley laminated truckers addition atlas! it dont update, reroute,reboot, or go dead! makes a fine desk top or eating table to!
 
:lol: I wonder if GPS instructions would include the military escort (Shore Patrol) we got out of China Lake Naval Weapons Center one sunny desert afternoon? :rofl:
 
I still remember when I was buying my 69RR which was before the 70 440-6 car. Guy lived in a one way in--one way out cul-de-sac, and it was a complicated destructions getting in. One day I had to go over there, I guess I was there 3-4 times before the deal was all done--and I looked at the map trying to find a better way. AND THERE IT WAS. So I drove around on my "short cut" and before long I was at the end of a dead end----with a big drainage ditch between my end and the rest of the street across the way LOLOL
 
I took a road called "logger loop" up in Big Bear, CA to get somewhere. Well, you guessed it: it was a logging road and I'm not sure how the F a logging truck could navigate this deer trail! Dirt 'road', huge washed out sections..I took it for about 5 minutes in our minivan before I managed to turn around in some meadow... I said "No F'n way is this a road!" plain as day on GPS to get from A to Z. I told the lady at the shop we were trying to get to and she laughed saying that is not the first time she heard that 'logger loop' story. I think a central american country had a military convoy actually take a wrong turn via GPS and crossed into another country, maybe Nicaragua and Honduras? Oops!
 
Followed a short cut for miles to find out it was a closed mountain pass. Ran into a naked man wielding a pistol. That was California. I was using a paper roadmap. Soooo...
 
The street I live on is a dead end dirt road, but mapquest directs people down here, to get to the subdivision on the other side. Not a big problem for cars, but any decent size delivery truck, has to backup 2 blocks before they can turn around. I have actually had a small semi try to use my driveway to turn around (not).
 
GPS can be helpful but, a lot of times when we are on our way home from a trip the most used thing in the car is the compass. That's right...compass... I like to get off the interstate and just navigate home using the compass. I call it "The back roads of America".
 
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