If you were charging 10 grand for the thing, no bloody wonder they went = elsewhere. 100 quid for car sat nav, 10000 quid for a lorry one. Rip o= ff.
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A law sponsored by your company you mean?
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Perhaps when such a haulier gets fined £100k because his lorry gets jammed between two properties or whatever they might take notice.
Maybe they should build roads properly in the first place.
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Agreed. But just as easy to just drive to the via point! Which is what I did. No need to waste time putting it into the satnav.
Do you read before you post ?
As I said, there are a myriad different restrictions that need to be catered for. Hence no such thing as a "Lorry" sat nav.
*shrug* tell that to the owner, who sold the business last year for a few million.
When I was there, using the *suite* of software (of which the route planned was one component) could save a haulier around 10%. If they ran
10 HGVs that's one less HGV and driver a year. I had a few firms say that equated to £250,000. So a £50,000 software investment was cheap.
Do you read before you post ?
I used to work there, before career took me elsewhere.
Fair point. But I haven't read of it happening ?
Most rural UK roads weren't built for cars, let alone lorries.
Assuming you know (a) what it is and (b) how to get there.
No so easy when you're 200 miles from your home town.
Exactly. I used a paper map and selected one! But it was easy to remember how to get there, so I just drove.
The problem is we've reached the point where sat nav reliability - at c.
90% - pretty much makes it a ridiculous waste of resources to cater for a plan B.That said, the annoying 10% unreliability (for all sorts of reasons) can have a severe effect, depending where you are when things go south.
For me, it's almost invariably by myself on a motorway. So no chance of asking a passengers help, and no chance to adjust the device lawfully - let alone safely.
The fact this has happened with my *inbuilt* car sat nav (Citroen - it just froze until the engine had been restarted) just reinforced my vow to use portable exchangable devices in future.
Well I can't now, as you "muted" it.
There should be a lorry option which doesn't tell you to go on narrow roads, or roads "unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles", or ones with low bridges. It should stick to the most main roads possible.
10K still seems steep for software. I guess if it's not mass produced t= here's a big difference.
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Not in that great a detail.
It would still be a law sponsored by the company you work for.
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Because the loss to the company of a damaged lorry not delivering goods = on time is punishment enough?
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Exactly. In America they have decent wide roads.
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Just stop on the hard shoulder. Not knowing where you're going is an emergency. Better than driving up and down the motorway for hours being lost.
So sending prohibited loads over motorway bridges ?
I suggest you immerse yourself in road traffic regulations for dangerous and regulated loads *before* dispensing your wisdom here.
I'll be honest that *I* didn't know that compressed gases were not allowed in tunnels until I had to work on a map for a company whose entire operation involved moving ... compressed gases.
It makes a lot more sense why you have specialise hauliers.
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