All these questions on routing???

We Cant Wait wrote:
Just curious about all the requests for best routes etc, some even between towns in the same state. Having drove all over Europe while in the military there, and all over the U.S. while driving truck the only references I ever had was, a European Road Atlas, and U.S. Motor Carrier Atlas. Are we as a whole getting to the point that we must have others do more and more things for us by others instead of researching things our self? With all the electronic routing possibilities available to us i.e. Mapsgoole, GPS's, I-Phones, etc it'd seem that planning a route is as easy as a couple of clicks on the key pad.

We are full time and can travel up to about 12,000 miles or more pulling heavy fiver. I use numerous sites on my computer, my Trucker's Atlas, and I run with a Rand RV GPS.

I still may ask about a certain route once and awhile when fine tuning a certain portion of a trip. Let me know when you find a internet site that lets you know such things as when the road was last paved, or does that road have a history of huge unrepaired pot holes....etc...etc...

Sometimes there is no better reference that what comes from local knowledge of the area.