{"id":1771,"date":"2018-05-03T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loginextsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2026-02-04T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:14:50","slug":"where-are-your-drivers-trucker-lost-in-oregon-woods-for-days-with-wrong-gps-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loginextsolutions.com\/blog\/where-are-your-drivers-trucker-lost-in-oregon-woods-for-days-with-wrong-gps-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are Your Drivers? Trucker Lost in Oregon Woods for Days with Wrong GPS Info"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where are Your Drivers? Trucker Lost in Oregon Woods for Days with Wrong GPS Info<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A trucker was lost in snow-covered woods in Oregon for four days when the wrong address was plugged into the GPS. He managed to survive and walk back to more populated areas when his truck got stuck on small roads.<\/p>\n

The roads started paved but narrowed ahead. Jacob Cartwright, the driver, was hauling potato chips in a tractor-trailer from Portland, northwestern Oregon, to Nyssa along the Idaho border, slated to cover about 400 miles. He was working with wrong information, plugging the wrong address into the system, which prompted the GPS system to direct him through Pendleton, along a US Forest Service road.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His family and the local authorities searched for him tirelessly, until he just reappeared.<\/p>\n

A worrying story<\/a> with a happy ending.<\/p>\n

But as from anything, we learn and evolve from this. Jacob learned to doublecheck and verify every address he puts in the system. But, if not him, then someone else. This problem is bound to repeat as human errors are quite difficult to avoid.<\/p>\n

There is a better way. Even though it may seem like an attempt to leverage a solution, it isn\u2019t so<\/em>. There is \u2018genuinely\u2019 a better way<\/a>, and it has been implemented across many of the large transport companies across the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Live Tracking of Drivers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Track the movement and activities of all your drivers in real-time from a single dashboard. Little Trees Transportation, Jacob\u2019s employers, could track him as he moved with the potato chips. The tracking system also supports driver behavior analysis.<\/strong> If someone, not Jacob but any other driver, was speeding, unnecessarily detained, or taken a different route than the one planned, the company would get instant alerts.<\/p>\n

What should have happened?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Little Trees Transportation, had they integrated with logistics optimization solution like that of LogiNext<\/a>, they…<\/p>\n