If it seems there are a lot of large trucks getting jack knifed and stuck on local and back roads of late your not wrong in thinking it.
The reason many of these trucks are getting stuck is the amount of inexperienced truck drivers not familiar with roads they travel
But the biggest culprit is fact they are using normal GPS units designed for automobiles and not trucks.
Tom Tom ,Garmin and others make a specific GPS unit designed just for truckers which routes them around low underpasses and tight curves and intersections
The reason drivers will not purchase the Truck Driver Version of GPS units is either they do not know they exist and fact they cost more for the service.
They also refuse to use old fashioned truck maps which are available .
The other problem is dispatchers who assign delivery's not using truck routing maps when getting and printing driving directions for drivers.
You have to click for truck freindly routing depending on mapping program you are using.
With the High Fines in the thousands and expensive damage done to rigs you would think trucking companys would take care to prevent these issues but apparently they are not. SWIFT trucking is one of the companys with a large amount of these stuck and jacknifed trucks problems .
But then again they are one of the few companys that will take the risk and give young inexperinced drivers behind the wheel to a well paying career .
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