Sat-nav blunder for lost-gistics driver
Date: 25 February 2008
A haulage driver has been left red in the face after getting his lorry stuck in a narrow country lane when he unquestioningly followed his sat-nav system.
In the end, it took three days for experts to free the stricken haulage vehicle, which had been carrying timber from north Wales to Birmingham, from the lane near Wrexham.
Much of the difficulty was due to the fact that the 44-tonne haulage vehicle kept slipping back because of the lack of road surface.
The embarrassed haulage driver's employer, Richard Atkinson, explained to the local Daily Post that the man had broken company policy by using the navigation system.
"He was using sat-nav. As a matter of policy we don't use them. He was using his own.
"I assume he was doing what the sat nav told him."
This is not the first time that sat-nav systems have caused disaster for unobservant haulage drivers. In 2007, there were a number of reports of drivers getting their vehicles in unusual places such because they blindly followed their gadgets.
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