Damn....Slowmover you are a plethora of knowledge. "Roads Scholar" of sorts.
As you know, truck driving is a job where time can hang heavy.
Then, too much happens at once.
Radio reports with contradictions make one
wish for a referee (meter) while sorting.
A whole sack of related problems just showed up. Accurate assessment of what’s ahead is the thing.
Dropping a gear. Or three. Mentally, one is changing possible arrival time at receiver two days ahead with reports coming in. Time to perhaps alert company. A helluva lot more evaluation of overtaking traffic ensues. Reaching for the atlas.
Changing the GPS screen for a different map layer. Etc.
Slowdown, or stop ahead? Inability to assign stars to better/worse radio chatter is a current flaw in the process of time & distance analysis.
The LDG meter series stands out (whether or not it could be adapted to a non-Yaesu radio).
And a good memory helps. But this set of topics (radio) is pretty new to me. Because I owned them didn’t mean I paid a great deal of attention until it became genuinely hard to make a Class 8 installation “work”.
This site is the scholarly reference (for a guy like me). Discussion of equipment and the practical. Theoretical still past me.
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