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SAT-NAV * UK - Wedges trucker in lane
* Sat-nav exclusively for trucks may stop vehicles being trapped London,UK -The Sun, by JOHN COLES -2 Nov 2007: -- A foreign trucker got trapped for THREE DAYS after being sent up a narrow country lane by his sat-nav... Czech Yuro Odehnal’s 40-ton, 35ft lorry became wedged between its banks and blocked by an overhead pipe...
When he tried to reverse, his wheels simply spun on the unclassified road’s slippy surface... Yuro, 45, spent the weekend sleeping in his cab until his bosses hired a tractor to tow him out of the isolated spot a mile from Ivybridge, Devon... Mat, 19, said: “This isn’t the first time lorries have been misdirected up here.” Yuro is now back in Prague... But it is not only a problem for overseas hauliers; many UK trucks have been trapped because they are using sat.nav systems used by cars. Until recently there has been no mapping available with the details of all the weight, height and width restrictions in the UK... The cost of sat.nav has fallen dramatically and it will make sense for it to be fitted into trucks – if the cost justifies it... (Pictures - 1. ABOVE: UK -Freedom ... tractor tows truck - 2. BELOW: posted by realworld, New Zealand: And this one probably had Sat nav troubles...)
When he tried to reverse, his wheels simply spun on the unclassified road’s slippy surface... Yuro, 45, spent the weekend sleeping in his cab until his bosses hired a tractor to tow him out of the isolated spot a mile from Ivybridge, Devon... Mat, 19, said: “This isn’t the first time lorries have been misdirected up here.” Yuro is now back in Prague... But it is not only a problem for overseas hauliers; many UK trucks have been trapped because they are using sat.nav systems used by cars. Until recently there has been no mapping available with the details of all the weight, height and width restrictions in the UK... The cost of sat.nav has fallen dramatically and it will make sense for it to be fitted into trucks – if the cost justifies it... (Pictures - 1. ABOVE: UK -Freedom ... tractor tows truck - 2. BELOW: posted by realworld, New Zealand: And this one probably had Sat nav troubles...) Labels: sat nav
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