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HandCarvedRabbits t1_iuom11e wrote

The thing that occurred to me the other day is this- Why doesn’t a GPS app make these warnings as part of the data attached to the road. They can do stop signs, traffic, road construction etc. They should make it so the second you turn on to this road a red warning shows up making clear that vehicle must be under X length to travel on this road beyond X miles. This should be especially true if there are GPS apps specific to truckers.

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-_Stove_- t1_iupazl7 wrote

Because truckers don't use a specialized trucker app- they use Google Maps or Apple Maps.

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landodk t1_iupoitb wrote

Not sure why google and Apple don’t have “oversized vehicle navigation” as an option like “avoid tolls”

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ethandavid42 t1_iuqxuhz wrote

I used to work for a data provider in Lebanon, NH, Teleatlas North America, that was eventually taken over by TomTom. The capability to put this information in GPS apps has long existed, but the companies that buy the data need to keep that data updated. Even Google Maps or Apple Maps have the capability. They can be fed cloud based traffic data. This would be easy.

But the truckers have to have an updated version of whatever software they use on whatever device they use. It's not the tech necessarily. It's user error, neglect, or ignorance, very often.

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GrnGlob t1_iur40iq wrote

In one of the articles about this, they said they've worked with the 'smaller' GPS data providers, and have tried/are working with GMaps and Apple Maps, but those two are very slow when it's a 'rare event' like this.

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