maps or gps

I use a garmin street pilot for trucks. I bought it on sale at best buy for $229. I double check it with a truckers atlas. I don't always follow the GPS, but it is a good tool.

 

Bigjohn, I work fine P&D with a good city map. On rare occasion do they send me somewhere off my map, then I will sometimes call the shipper/receiver to get directions. The map cost me about $10 compared to a GPS at $?
Good luck.

 

Same thing here. Use GPS and double check it with my atlas. I don't need to be backing up 3 miles because of a low bridge or low weight road. It hasn't failed me yet.

 

Backing up three miles? Does this happen to you a lot?

I use a GPS unit (Tom-Tom 510) and my Rand Mcnally and rarely have problems finding any place. For multiple stops in town, A GPS uint is hard to beat. I watch for bridges and roads myself, never seem to have any problems with that issue.

 

Does anyone have any preferences about which unit works better? I'm leaning toward the Garmin Streetpilot C330. I can get a used one for for about $150-175. My instructor says it will pay for itself in two runs or less. I will still use a road atlas to plan the route, but the GPS really shines in helping navigate the cities.Any thoughts???

 

Get it. It might not be perfect, but it will be a nice backup to your atlas. One note, the 330 only tells you to turn right or turn left. The 340 will tell you to turn right on High St. or left on Elm St.

 

As long as you learn to use it properly, they are a great aid to driving. If you cede all responsibility to it for route planning and hazard avoidance, you will be under a bridge soon. The advantages to one is that they focus on the location you want to go to, and constantly reroute you to there if you have to detour for any reason. They also show you street names, when they are hidden in fog, rain, darkness, or hidden under a limb.

I use a TomTom 510 and have had it in the truck since last December. Used properly, they are wonderful. I don;t allow mine to override my common sense, and i still check for weight limits and heights myself. but for finding a location, they are hard to beat.

 

Same here, I use my laptop and a map, and have only had to "hunt" a way out of a place one time. And that was my fault, not the GPS's.

I generally log all my stops into the system when I reach the first one, and let the GPS handle it from there.

Of course, common sense isn't included with the price of the system.