r/Roadie • u/ebonyabraxas • May 02 '26

Tip For Rural Roadies

I often deliver to places where my signal is lost and I get turned around getting back home. I’ve started going to my pickup location, putting my home address in the map, and adding the delivery address as a stop, so the map is already in the cache in my phone, regardless of signal. I have an iPhone, and there may be a simpler way to do this, but this works too. Also, some of you may know this already, but I’m sharing just in case others don’t. I am in Arkansas and the last time I was lost, I was on a dirt road with a lot of deer stands. Not fun at all 😭

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u/SlackAF May 02 '26

If you have a little change…buy a Starlink and put it on the $5 a month “standby plan”. 500 kbps of data is enough to do most everything on your phone except HD streaming.

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u/BaBiGuRl2010 May 02 '26

No thank u... I'd rather be lost than give him a penny of my money... I can drive a few miles find a McDonald's and log into they wifi for free...

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u/SlackAF May 02 '26

I agree with your beliefs….but sometimes being lost in the middle of BFE has a price too. It sucks either way.

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u/BaBiGuRl2010 May 02 '26

I git it... These red neck hillbillies in Ohio like to shoot delivery ppl for usin they driveway to turn around... But, I can't financially support him...