Speed Limits Seen as Targets

[BIGDOG]

Must disagree with you and agree with Pontoneer on this.
I was in charge of a few drivers (all young) at work who apparently could not move unless the TomTom told them which way to go. I gave one an address to take some urgent fittings to the emergency team waiting on site, 20 minutes later I looked out the window and he was still sitting in the works car park. I went out and he explained the TomTom had been left switched on and the battery run flat he had plugged it back in and was waiting on the battery recharging to find out how to get there, but it was slow in accepting a charge. I have had that happen to me, so it was possible.
I told him, he knew the area well enough to get within a mile of the address, start heading there and the TomTom will have started working by the time he got near, or, get your smartphone out and look up the address on Google maps? He said, I didn't know you could do that!
I started work in an age when we had no A to Z maps books, let alone smartphones or sat navs, we headed in the direction we needed to go and if we couldn't find the address we stopped and asked someone. All the old guys when I started knew the district like the back of their hands, not only could they find most addresses without any help, they could tell you the what side of the street the gas main ran and what size it was!
Problem nowadays is young people do not need to retain any knowledge like this as they have so many other options which means they have basically stopped thinking for themselves.

In your example I’d say that the recruiting manager needs talking to about his screening and interview skills.

 

[Dryce]

I started work in an age when we had no A to Z maps books, let alone smartphones or sat navs, we headed in the direction we needed to go and if we couldn't find the address we stopped and asked someone.

I used to have a mid 1960s AA gazetteer and road atlas of England & Wales - and another late 1960s one of Scotland. And in the 70s had newer editions (my recollection is that they were smaller). These contained detailed road atlas and a reasonable amount of distance information marked on the maps.

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These predated the big floppy road atlases that seemed to take over by the early 1980s.

I can also recall touring maps - showing major roads but not enough detail for the minor ones.

 

[rf065]

In your example I’d say that the recruiting manager needs talking to about his screening and interview skills.

These guys originally worked for a contractor company that we took over and were all TUPE'd employees, so no interviews.

 

[rf065]

I used to have a mid 1960s AA gazetteer and road atlas of England & Wales - and another late 1960s one of Scotland. And in the 70s had newer editions (my recollection is that they were smaller). These contained detailed road atlas and a reasonable amount of distance information marked on the maps.

I'm not talking about finding towns or maps of the city centre etc, we're talking about specific streets, especially new build estates of which there were many which sprung up after the war years. Even today with all the modern info, you move into a new estate and it will be a nightmare getting deliveries as your street is not on any maps.

 

[chic0821]

What a great forum, every day is a skool day. I always thought the speed signs meant you had to achieve that as a minimum to keep the traffic flowing. Dose not say anywhere on the sign it's a maximum. I'm forever tooting at people doing under whatever the sign says

 

[BIGDOG]

What a great forum, every day is a skool day. I always thought the speed signs meant you had to achieve that as a minimum to keep the traffic flowing. Dose not say anywhere on the sign it's a maximum. I'm forever tooting at people doing under whatever the sign says

It’s been so long since I had a speeding conviction (yes, tempting fate) that I’m in the mind frame of just going as fast as traffic allows outside of known speed cameras. I quite rarely even look at the speedo.