Why Do You Use a Sat Nav When Doing Private Hire in Lichfield?

It is a question that comes up quite often when driving.

‘If you are based in Lichfield, why do you use a sat nav when you transfer us to the airport?’

Sure, there are out-of-town app-based drivers out there who depend on it for directions to Birmingham Airport for example.

We know where we are going as we visit all the main destinations on a regular basis. Also our operating base and private hire licences are all in Lichfield.

We use the sat nav for access to real-time traffic data.

By having a phone based sat nav running such as Waze, we can.

• Spot traffic building up and take an alternative route. (This even happens in Lichfield with the perpetual roadworks!)

• Get automatically re-routed when doing long journeys such as a transfer to Heathrow or Gatwick. The M40 and M42 seem to clog up for no reason at all, not to mention the A446 past The Belfry. So being instructed early to get off the motorway at the next junction has saved us being stuck in many traffic jams.

• Give the customer an estimated ETA at their destination. This is especially helpful when clients are rendezvousing with business colleagues or friends.

So yes, we do know where we are going when we run a sat nav, but we also want to have the option to go another route if we need to.