Sat nav blunders

As its my day off I decided to reply to some posts on the truck net forum , One about sat nav blunders reminded me of so many of mine so I have posted some of them here
This is my first one:

Well my first trip out after passing my test was to collect the training companies 18 tonne Mercedes Actros from slough. I was driven down with the MD of J Coates and dropped off at their training centre. I had only been in a lorry 6 times , the 5 training days and my test :shock:

I was nervous as hell but I didnt let it show. I tried to remember the way we were going so I could get back without a problem but the roads were turning into streets with houses and looking very busy and small.

I got the up into the cab and made it look like I knew what I was doing. One problem I had was the gears, I had trained in a 4/4 splitter , this was a 4/4 knock box you had to knock the gear lever, I had read about them in the Truckers guide !!! ( yeah I did buy it before I passed) but I had never used one. I wasn’t doing very well with it but I plugged my sat nav onto my windscreen and tightened my cheeks and set off..

I was very nervous , yesterday I had passed my test and the very next day I was on my own in this massive vehicle , no one but me to rely on , oh and this little tom tom device shouting out directions.
I remember getting to the end of the street and the sat nav saying turn left.
Without even thinking I almost made the turn, and then just in time I saw the railway bridge ahead of me. the smallest bridge I ever saw.
I had never took any notice of heights and the test routes don’t take low bridges in So it was a shock. Whoops , I touched the brakes, bit too hard and stopped. I had to reverse in these small streets a bit and make a right.

The sat nav decided I should suffer and kept asking me to turn around back to the low bridge road . I tried the route blocked feature but It was all happening to fast, I followed the sat nav after it started to route me towards the motorway but I was into the country side now like a wood with low hanging branches banging on the roof of the truck and whipping the sides.
The mirrors were banging in to the bushes and I couldnt see in them.

I felt such a fool. The sat nav kept saying turn around , turn around, I had no where to go "shut up" shut up" I was shouting at it, the roads were getting smaller and then I saw another bridge on the road it had sent me I was really bricking it now , my first job with these and I was Effing it up !!!.
I could see the Motorway on the left of me on the sat nav screen but I was in the middle of no mans land; I just had to keep on ignoring the sat nav until I found a major road. I had the sweaty crack syndrome I can tell you lol , I made it out , and got back in one piece .Just ,but I do take a lot more care planning routes now and I bought the low bridges poi that night for my tom.
That was my first and even with planning it wont stop happening because after all a sat nav is only a map after all.
I have others including the one with the very angry man: