Cellular Device as GPS

[oldngray]

There's a street in a town I cover where some houses are numbered off the town numbering system and some houses Re numbered off the borough system(we have boroughs here instead of counties).

So imagine three lots side by side addressed
12501 East Main Street
715 West Main Street
12551 East Main Street

Get lots of NSNs when rookies run this.

I delivered an area that had county and city numbers on the same road. There were houses with the same number about half a mile apart. It has since been cleaned up though.

 

[oldngray]

one of the maps I used was called a "card file" ... hehh ehhh

I remember the clerks would have a card file for the weird addresses. Some drivers would have a sheet in their truck listing where common problem addresses go for cover drivers.

 

[Brownslave688]

Explain how having a quick reference point at any point in the day without having to use a paper map or punch in addresses on my phone is a failure...

Explain how you're gonna get your job back when you get in an accident from distracted driving.


Yeah well boss I just glanced down at the tablet real quick to see where I needed to turn and they came out of nowhere. Lmao

 

[You've Got Mail]

Explain how you're gonna get your job back when you get in an accident from distracted driving.

If, not when.

 

[Brownslave688]

If, not when.

Driving with a tablet on the dash.



WHEN

 

[Wally]

We get paid by the hour. Let management worry about if you have a map or not. Trust me, once they know the day will tank, you will have a map-pronto!

 

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Here's a pic of a "road" google maps just tried to take me down

 

[Oak]

Here's a pic of a "road" google maps just tried to take me down


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Ha! Proof that Google and ORION know each other!

 

[sailfish]

Here's a pic of a "road" google maps just tried to take me down


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I had that happen to me once. I was probably one or two hundred yards into it before I realized the "road" was only going to get worse (as in completely impassable). I then spent the next twenty minutes backing out of it. I flip it off every time I drive by it now.

 

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I had that happen to me once. I was probably one or two hundred yards into it before I realized the "road" was only going to get worse (as in completely impassable). I then spent the next twenty minutes backing out of it. I flip it off every time I drive by it now.

Ladies brother came down it on a quad. Took the box.

 

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Ladies brother came down it on a quad. Took the box.

Told me even though their address is x street you can only get to it by going down z street

 

[SCV good to go sir.]

Here's a pic of a "road" google maps just tried to take me down


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If that was the suggested route from Orion, I would driven on it and prayed to cardboard Jesus that my truck would get stuck on it so that I could call my center manager and justify my actions by saying I was trying to follow Orion.

Sigh.... It's alright. I'm only here for the rest of my life, I'm sure I'll have my moments. =D

 

[soberups]

When I had my ORION ride the guy was looking at his little Google Earth tablet and wanted me to make a right turn onto "4-wheel drive road."

I had to explain to him that "4-wheel drive" wasn't a name...it was a warning.

 

[soberups]

Here's a pic of a "road" google maps just tried to take me down


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When you finally make it up that road to the house, is there a little inbred hillbilly boy sitting on the porch playing the banjo?

 

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When you finally make it up that road to the house, is there a little inbred hillbilly boy sitting on the porch playing the banjo?

Never made it.

Guy came down on a quad and told me "you can't get there from here" and took the package as it was for his sister

 

[UPSGUY72]

I use a map unless I'm running sat air. When I run Saturday Air I separate the packages by zip code and then use google maps on my phone if I don't know where the street are.

 

[Brownslave688]

If that was the suggested route from Orion, I would driven on it and prayed to cardboard Jesus that my truck would get stuck on it so that I could call my center manager and justify my actions by saying I was trying to follow Orion.

Sigh.... It's alright. I'm only here for the rest of my life, I'm sure I'll have my moments. =D

Yep. I know a place that for Orion and the Orion people told them to cut through a field road to save a mile. Driver said ok but first time it's wet I'm burying it axle deep and calling you.

 

[Dr.Brownz]

I use my phone sometimes to look up address breaks in areas where I know the streets just not where the numbers change.

 

[Foamer Pyle]

Good for you. I'm in this game for the long haul. Maybe if you run fast enough you can come take stops from me.

That's funny kid, 26 years in, 4 to go. I have already made the long haul, and I certainly didn't get here running. I will take any safe short cut that makes my life easier. Paper maps are like 8 tracks and VHS tapes, obsolete.

 

[upschuck]

That's funny kid, 26 years in, 4 to go. I have already made the long haul, and I certainly didn't get here running. I will take any safe short cut that makes my life easier. Paper maps are like 8 tracks and VHS tapes, obsolete.

You have 26 years in and still don't know where you are going?