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<blockquote data-quote="JL 0513" data-source="post: 1796458" data-attributes="member: 50088"><p>3 day ride along for every new route? This can't be right, is it? The only time I had 3 days ride along was the first 3 days of my 30 day qualification when I knew nothing about the job.</p><p></p><p>In the last year and a half, I've learned 17 routes. Had a ride along on just 2. Everything else blind with no notice. There's no way I could do all that effectively without Google Maps. I have a map book for backup but never pull it out. Paper maps take forever to use and you are given zero time allowance to even refer to a map. Just making out the squished print on a map, especially city, is crazy. Last time I checked, there's no addresses on the paper map. Not good for roads many miles long.</p><p></p><p>The old timers probably think you need to type out a full address including city and state. Actually, with Google maps you just type in the # and first 2 or 3 letters of a street and it auto fills the whole address. It accurately predicts based on your location. It's a process that takes literally 2 seconds and can be done on the walk back to the car. Imagine looking at your map book on the walk back to the car? New drivers today aren't given any extra time to learn a new route. You are expected to run a route well on day one blind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JL 0513, post: 1796458, member: 50088"] 3 day ride along for every new route? This can't be right, is it? The only time I had 3 days ride along was the first 3 days of my 30 day qualification when I knew nothing about the job. In the last year and a half, I've learned 17 routes. Had a ride along on just 2. Everything else blind with no notice. There's no way I could do all that effectively without Google Maps. I have a map book for backup but never pull it out. Paper maps take forever to use and you are given zero time allowance to even refer to a map. Just making out the squished print on a map, especially city, is crazy. Last time I checked, there's no addresses on the paper map. Not good for roads many miles long. The old timers probably think you need to type out a full address including city and state. Actually, with Google maps you just type in the # and first 2 or 3 letters of a street and it auto fills the whole address. It accurately predicts based on your location. It's a process that takes literally 2 seconds and can be done on the walk back to the car. Imagine looking at your map book on the walk back to the car? New drivers today aren't given any extra time to learn a new route. You are expected to run a route well on day one blind. [/QUOTE]
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