GPS will NEVER replace common sense or EXPERIENCE!
Where do you people deserve to be spoon fed all this pre-planned BS and or time to do it ?
You fish need to get a grip,expect flak from those you LONG before you cut their own trails out here with less then a map,pencil and a note pad.
GPS is what it is,a tool and nothing more. The technology is still nowhere near "usable"on any confidence level.(BOTH $500 units currently on the market are FISH BAIT)
I have a 255w thats helpful at times,and a PITA the other 85%.
Dealing with Garmin is like dealing with WalMart Dis. Center. THEY COULD CARE LESS THEN LESS!!
Ive listened to their BS for 6 months,be ###### if I drop 5 bills on another retarded POS thats smarter then the live person Im talking to
As with any tool you have to be proficient with it to get the work done useing it.
A Tradesman is smarter then the tools he uses,same applies here.
I set my 255w to GO and roll,I zoom to the destination and "look". The GPS will route you on surface streets that dont need traveled. Instead of takeing the GPS as the gospel when other streets are clearly seen,shut it down and by-pass the exit and let the unit RECALCULATE!! then follow the "better" route "YOU FOUND" from there.
Need a decent GPS
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by kilroy2963, Sep 13, 2009.
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And you're obsessed with maps. There are no hyper accurate maps. They are all wrong somewhere. That doesn't matter anyway. It's not the maps, it's the routing. Google has their cars driving around taking pictures of every street they can, you know like the ones with "No trucks" signs on them. They could stuff the knowledge into a gps unit that could keep you off those streets. -
By the way Kajidono, I found Google maps very useful. I used it when I did a route to NYC. I was able to get maps of each area of NYC where my delivery's were. I had the maps printed, highlighted the route, and with the aid of my GPS got it done. -
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Actually, I could give a flying leap what you do. You can go jump in the lake for all I care. However, a lot of your assertions are asinine, based on pure conjecture, and shear utter ignorance. Thus, it is my job to set you straight.
Trust me you dont have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what you are doing. Its not that complicated. Not only that but I can also tell that you are young and havent been around the block yet all that much, and speaking of being a genius, I didnt throw $500 dollars down the drain like you did on useless technology and then demonstrate that you still havent learned your lesson by claiming you are anxious to jump on the upcoming Rand McNally. Not to mention that I never would have entered the discussion in this thread in the first place had I noticed the bottom of your first post, so I regret getting tangled up.
Oh, by the way, when you get a ticket for being on a restricted route or lose your career for hitting that low overhead, blame it on your so-called truck specific GPS device and see how far that will get you. -
I mean aren't you the guy that got duped into buying the PCM 430 and when you realized that it was junk, you hurried up and jumped on the 465T, and now that you realize that it is junk too, you can hardly wait for the Rand McNally to be released.
If I had a mailing list to sell to shysters that sell crap via spaming your email inbox, I would want a thousand people like you guys to be on it because I could charge a premium for it.
In any event, I wasnt gullible enough to pluck $500 dollars down twice to learn the hard way what you should have known already like some of you guys did and are planning to do again as soon as the Rand McNally gets released. -
Thank God I dont have a difficult job like you do, because lord knows I could never handle it since I dont have an S stamped on my chest like you. Lord knows only the elite of the elite are qualified to become truck drivers. -
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