Taking the TND730 back for a refund

Any GPS will sometimes freeze up in very dense areas when you need them the most, especially in navigation mode. When I ran the 7" RM TND, I found I could not reliably run the traffic feature (wifi) off my hotspot in large metro areas, it was almost guaranteed it would freeze up at some point. You may very well have a bad memory chip on your board. But I moved to the big Garmin and prefer it. The Garmin Dezl worked better FOR ME. Others will be better suited with the RM TND.

Around NYC, my experience is that none of them can be counted on in navigation routing mode to not freeze up. Setting the vehicle height to 12'-6" seemed to help with the bizarre routing and the freezing on both a Garmin and RM.

If you go with the Garmin Dezl, you might consider turning off traffic once you get deep into a metro area during rush hour, and near the destination. This feature can bring them to their knees when traffic issues are rampant all around.

 

have you updated your copilot. there's an app update AND map updates. the maps are now 1.8 gigs and not 1.5 gigs now.

it never freezes even with traffic in the big metros. but does get annoying in los angeles rush hour traffic.

 

I would take it back. I have the 720 and nothing but disappointment. I expected that a company that makes maps would at least have all the roads that google maps or mapquest has. Nope.

 

As far as "roads" go, and when talking about Garmin Vs Rand McNally Vs PCMiler, I think they all use the same map data supplier (Navteq). It's just a matter of who publishes the most current and frequent updates to their subscribers. But also, it's a matter of who does the best job with weights/heights/restrictions routing features. (And it could easily be argued Garmin is very weak in that regard and RM probably wins that battle)

[And I don't want to leave out Cobra, Magellan, and others but I have no personal experience with these and can't speak for/against them]

 

There's a Rand McNally GPS thread in the electronics folder that one of their beta test engineers monitors. He frequently gets things to work that seem to mar the experience for many folks. You might try hunting that one up and posting your trouble in there.

 

I have both RM and Garmin truck units. The Garmin is much more reliable but the displays and ease of use are different. I have never used it in NYC, so take that into account, too.

Check this forum out for help from a Rand engineer.

 

Garmin provides Basecamp as a free download for a desktop supplement to their product which is better suited to hiking and camping IMO. Not sure why you would need to use Basecamp in the context of trucking. If I'm wanting to do cross country trip planning/saving/printing, I would probably use Google Maps via a web browser and laptop