GPS Navigation Gone Bad
Posted February 22nd, 2008 by Alex Ion
Just because you paid a lot of money on your GPS navigator this doesn’t mean you are going to get to your destination (safe). To make the story short here is what happened to a truck driver that followed the instructions and got stuck on a “tractors only” road on Wednesday.
He truck was carrying timber from north Wales to Birmingham and managed to block the track at Halton in Wrexham county
“He knocked down branches on the way and damaged trees and is now well and truly stuck.”
The result is, farmer Margaret Evans became very sad because the truck stuck in her farm lane and she now has to use a two miles longer road to get to that particular part of her land.
The company that owns the truck, Maxi Haulage Ltd from Ayrshire, announced that the don’t provide sat-navigation on their vehicles, but the drivers use their own. More on that matter there was a big sign saying that the track was not suitable to heavy goods vehicles (HGV). How was the GPS navigator supposed to know it?
You’d better trust your own instincts, too, not just your GPS.
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