Heard similar from other drivers too.
Eventually it will bite the companies.
It already has had a negative impact on the safety of the industry itself and the integrity of the freight.
Had a GPS zombie show up at my truck exit and argue with me about where I worked, he insisted I was stupid and his GPS was right.
He then said he was going to drop his trailer at my truck exit.
The problem is, he’d signed for a load worth almost two million.
And he was seriously going to drop it at a truck exit miles away from the place he was looking for.
Makes me wonder how often that happened.
Sounds like the trucking version of those zombies that step out into traffic while staring at their smartphones.
I think the dumbest thing I saw was two gals at a truck stop trying to figure out their scale ticket.
They had just finished their training with See What I F###ed up Today and had been thrown in a truck to carry a load to NYC.
They were fretting because they were very overweight.
The look on their faces was so pitiful I asked if I could help.
Dear Lord they were dense.
They didn’t know their steers from their drives from their tandems. Plus they were looking at a weight table for SINGLE axle trucks!
I had them pull to the side and gave them an hour of Hands On instruction.
I made them place their hands on the steers and explained why they were called steers, ditto with the drives and tandems.
After that I went over the scale ticket and showed them how to read it and adjust their tandems. I took a marker and blacked out the single axle column to avoid future confusion.
I spent another hour answering questions they had.
They told me I had taught them more in those two hours than their “trainers” had taught them in three months.
I almost cried.
Anyone that relies on a GPS isn’t all there to begin with. Steering wheel holders, not Drivers.
When I started driving the guy who trained me didn’t let me drive until I could back into a dock with ease.
When I could back into any dock we came to he started letting me drive some. He stayed in the passenger seat and observed and commented as I drove.
While I was learning to bump the dock he had me planning trips from shipper to receiver and learning the log book.
That was about thirty years ago.
Can’t get training like that these days.