Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

You just had to reveal both JB HUNT & Swift Drivers secrets to success, didn't you LOL jk

 

All of the above and in addition the filtering for truck stop size should have and follow the size standards of the truckers friend directory. Small, medium, large and extra large. It is ridiculous to go from a truck stop that may have only 3 parking spots to the very few truck stops that have over 150 in one jump.

Also Mark, if yo still looking for someone to test a different cable I am willing. Just let me know. Thanks.

 

red dot is gone on my route an end of day. unit has been this way since i bought it. have changed settings on auto zoom to every one there but after a few seconds it still go back to being zoomed out to far when going down the hwy

 

Good Morning mark,

After taking the time to sit and sift through large amount of info in this section of the forum and rading over what few of the suggestions folks have added, I may have come up with a few that could definately not only help the driver, but also could potentially help Rand to not only move to the top in the food chain, but possibly help them to surpass their competition virtually over night.

We all know that the vass majority of Truck Drivers carry with them some, if not all of the following:

A Cell Phone, TV, MP3 player, DVD player, and just within the past few years, two way communications via satellite.

With that being said, what better way to serve the American Trucker than to be able to implamenta unit, weather through the use of a sd card or anthother form of portable memory card or on the motherboard, the ability to access portable video, Bluetooth technology (for integrated use of the ceell phone) and or, a dvd drive built it to watch a program (while the truck is not moving, of course).

We know that garmin, some of the tom-tom & magellin units already use the Bluetooth technology, but what many Americans do not know, is that there is a company over in china that is already using on their public hwys, a GPS unit that:

• Will take still photos
• Will record up to 30 min of video via a build in camera behind the unit facing the widshield
• will hold / store up to 4 hrs of mp4 videos for play back
• Stereo Audio
• audio & video inputs to accept a portable dvd player plugin
• Store upto 3gb of mp3
• full turn by turn audio directions in 40 different languages
• is fully progamable for adding maps for use in other countries

This unit also has a 7" screen, can be used for both plugin as well as portable,(for up to 4 hrs before requiring recharging).

Now while I know that it was not designed for use in commercial vehicals, what a great idea for an almost all in one unit while navigating. the last time I checked, (about 6 months ago) it's US price was around $275 - $350. or somewhere around in there.

So it's not a matter of if it is possible for Rand, it's the matter of "Should", "If" & "When"?

IF I get a chance & can get the Mrs to show me again their website, I'll post that info here for ya to pass along to the higher ups. But as a previous as well as a future driver, I can almost bet, that, virtually every Truck Driver out there would want to have one of those, "IF" Rand was not only willing & able to get the current issues at hand fixed / corrected:

POI's, Correct Road Information, Correct navigation instructions, Correct Address information, correct weigh stations locations, correct road weight / height & bridge weight / restrictions information.

In my opinion, "IF" all of this were at the top of it's potential & integrating what the Chinese units already have, then the TND 700 units would be Very Well worth the $500.00 price tags that rand has on them.

Here are some of the units the Mrs had pointed out to me (Keep in mind that she is from china):

http://www.esaleschina.com/4-3-inch-gps-system-wince4-2-20-channels-558.htm
http://www.esaleschina.com/7-inch-gps-navigation-system-mp3-mp4-fm-556.htm
http://www.manufacturers.com.tw/showroom-6864-4-5-0000069802-0.php
http://www.manufacturers.com.tw/showroom-6864-4-5-0000080310-0.php
http://www.himfr.com/d-p11149871007..._car_gps_Car_tracker_gps_receiver_gps_system/

Just to name a few. (she's having trouble trying to find the website that she showed me) As soon as she finds it, I'll post it

 

I think both are no good. You should be able to put in a maximum speed, and the unit should use either that speed or the speed limit on that particular highway, whichever is slower. There should also be corrections for small highways going through towns etc..