Sat Nav Folly

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3D Courier Services

25600
Original Poster

I am amazed at the number of  "couriers" who blindly follow satnavs without question!

I recently posted a job out of Sheffield to the North Lincoln ring road. 50miles on the A57.

I accepted a bid off site and was surprised to get a call from the "courier" saying his satnav had taken him up the M18, M62 and A15. 70miles and he wanted paying for this.

He got quite irate when I pointed out to him that it was his responsibility to check the route he was quoting on.

Gripe over, gotta go now. Just setting off from Sheffield to Bristol and don't want to get caught up in the M25 traffic.

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd

10314

yeh had similar from someone doin a Luton to Stansted....after a while as i hadn't heard from em, i asked em for an eta..to be told "stuck on the M25"....wtf!!!!


Manadon Despatch

584

What's wrong with that? Vehicles get stuck on the M25 with monotonous regularity ... it's not known as the nation's biggest car park for nothing.

Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

What's wrong with that? Vehicles get stuck on the M25 with monotonous regularity ... it's not known as the nation's biggest car park for nothing.



I Hope the above comment was a joke !!!

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd

10314

oh dear.....the point i was makin is you don't touch the m25 if you're going from luton to stansted...unless you're usin satnav instead of common sense...mind you, common sense seems sadly lackin nowadays

Manadon Despatch

584

Not a joke at all. The most obvious route from Luton to Stansted is down the M!, clockwise around the M25, then down the M20.

Manadon Despatch

584

Unless he was meaning Stansted Airport but he didn't say that. He said Stansted (which is in Kent) ... down the M20 that comes off the M25.

Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

Stanstead is in Suffolk       Stansted is in Kent so with the spelling in mind the kent one would mean yes the carpark route.

Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

Stansted airport is near Stansted mountfitchet hence the name.

3D Courier Services

25600
Original Poster

Did some one miss the, check the route, bit? I had a guy in Worksop who had to pick up a load in NG22, Newark in 30 mins. He put NE22 in his sat nav and called me 1.5 hrs later cus he couln't find the address?

3D Courier Services

25600
Original Poster

Good job that guy going to Stansted wasn't going to Barnsley, could be anywhere by now!

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd

10314

blimey who'd have thought there'd be so much cuffuffle over a mere comment about satnav...lol

Luton to Stansted Airport ok?!!!...jeez

Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

Wooooooooooooooo Hooooooooooooooooo Some clarification.

I thought i would be up all night with worry.

So,  did the driver get to kent ok then ?????

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd

10314

stansted airport in essex ffs...lol....stop this talk about bleedin kent!!!!

RGM Courier Services

1737

Shows how much confusion there can be from not being specific about destinations! Didn't he check the post code?? 

I gave a job to a guy to New Brighton on the Wirral a while ago. After waiting an hour or so for a POD I rang him up asking where he the hell he was. "Just passing through Birmingham". 
You guessed it, he was heading for Brighton!!! 
Same guy turned back half an hour after setting off on another job I gave him. " I had to turn back because my red warning light was on", said he. It turned out he hadn't shut his door properly!! 

Manadon Despatch

584

"stansted airport in essex ffs...lol....stop this talk about bleedin kent!!!!"



You said naff all about it being the airport in your original post. It might be obvious to you seeing as you're based there but it doesn't follow that it's automatically bleedin' obvious to everyone else, especially when there are two or more place with the same name.

If you were told you had to deliver to NEWPORT and got told nowt else, would you automatically know which Newport to head for. There's ...

Newport, Mon.
Newport, Pembs.
Newport, Shropshire
Newport, Gloucestershire
Newport (nr. Launceston), Cornwall

Which one would you pick on without being told?

A couple of months back some pillock asked me to deliver to Chelmsford without thinking for one minute that I might find a precise address useful. Or perhaps he wanted me to chuck it out the window as I was driving through the town centre and hope the addressee might wander by and find it by sheer luck.

It pisses me off when job issuers give subbies half a bloody story and then expect them to use their crystal balls to figure out the rest just because they can't be bloody bothered to hand out accurate and detailed information.

And yes! ... this is one of my pet bloody hates.


End of rant. 


Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

Can we have the next question about pop music please !!!!!

3D Courier Services

25600
Original Poster

now, is that pop as in dad or pop as in popular?

Nottingham & Derby Couriers

3179

Here we go NO it's pop as in a fizzy drink.

Speed Couriers Nationwide Ltd

10314

well maybe i should have said that yes...he had the full delivery address post code etc etc....but still... cos he was a complete twat, went down the m1, round the m25 and up the m11...which is NOT the way anyone with an ounce of intelligence would go....you rant away....and don't assume i'm one of those idiots that gives random town names...we give all info its possible to get...so there!!!!

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