How to find local truck routes- map?

Sometimes its best to call the customer and see if they know the way in.

 

Some states/cities provide truck routes, restricted routes, etc on their website. The difficulty is in finding the sites. You'll likely come to find it's rare when you run into problems.

Most large trucking companies today provide customer directions along with load information on the in-truck messaging system.

Trucker atlas is critical for the "cross-country" portion of the trip. Try and stay on highlighted truck roads. But the first/last miles of trips are where you have to rely on your senses and smarts and any other helpful tips you can pick up by various means.

Truck GPS devices are a very important tool but they are not perfect. You need to always look at it's route overview and use your common sense and spidey sense to determine if it doesn't look right, before you get too far into the trip. You will soon start to learn its idiosyncrasies and bad behaviors and know what/when to be on the lookout for.

 

Chicago has a Truck Routing phone number to call. 1-312-746-8630 or 1-312-746-7992. It is a live person that will guide you around the city. Possibly other cities have the same type service/info.

Otherwise post more details here on where you are heading. Chances are someone has been there are nearby.

Mikeeee

 

They usually provide "written directions" that would be written down and followed manually. Peoplenet navigation is not 100% dependable, either. Any GPS mapping system is not completely up to date with truck-specific data, and/or will likely have old or erroneous data causing it to route around problems that aren't there or route you through problems that are now there.

The "overview" I speak of is simply zooming out and/or scrolling along to follow the route and see if it seems to match what you expect based on the information you may have. Example ... some routing (My Garmin does this regularly) will make you go past the correct exit, way down to the next exit, around through town and back to the destination ... because it thought you could not cross the center median island to turn left into the destination because it often is not aware of median opening to allow left turns.

 

Call the local police department and ask them. They should know.

 

Yeah, just make sure you ask for the receiving department when you call, because the old guy in the guard shack will guide you in the same way he drives to work, right through the 9ft clearance stone bridge on Old Main Street Extension.....

 

Back in the day.....we keyed up channel 19 and said " how bout some local information". Don't know if anyone would come back to you these days.