I haven’t been traveling all that much for business recently
(it’s the economy, you know), but I did have a recent 90-minute drive to the
Milwaukee area to attend a press function presented by Milwaukee Tool, which is
be featured in the July 6 issue ofThe NEWS.
The trip did give me a chance to really test the Global
Positioning System (GPS) I got for Christmas and haven’t had much use for since
then. Where we live, the roads are pretty flat and straight and having been on
them repeatedly for several years now, the car seems to know where to go.
Fact of the matter is I sometimes know routes that make more
sense than the way the GPS wants me to go. In fact, have the volume turned on,
and veer away from the GPS route and a very polite, but very firm female voice
will announced, “Perform a U-turn when possible.” It is kind of fun to really
mess with “her” mind and make “her” make that announcement as often as possible
- kind of a variation on the old “Hello Bob” college drinking game based on a
catch phrase from one of the old Bob Newhart TV shows.
The GPS did indeed find Milwaukee Tool easily enough which
definitely shows that the company is an established presence in its
neighborhood. By contract, the street in the newer subdivision where my wife
and I live it apparently isn’t GPS’d yet, since it never seems to be able to
find our home.
Powell's Ponderings: Learning GPS
By Peter Powell
Peter Powell is Refrigeration Editor. He can be contacted at 815-654-7270 or peterpowell@achrnews.com. Peter was formerly Editor/Publisher of Service & Contracting, where he gained his refrigeration experience. Among his duties, Powell is responsible for the monthly Refrigeration Zone sections in The NEWS
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