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

My old company loaded.all their fuel stops in my 720. Every time I get within 2 miles of one it tells me. How do I remove them? I left and am with another company and dont need the reminders anymore.

 

Go to preferences/general/manage my custom poi and delete them.

I think that's the menu.

 

Thank you. Guess I missed it when I was looking. Deleted now.

 

I tried that and it did allow it to work/run a bit longer but then seemed to die off again. The loud buzzer/alarm noise has happened twice... BTW, it had been working fine in that part of NH and ME as I'm there at least twice a week. Guess I'll give Rand a call...

 

You may have hit a black spot where we have no cell towers. IE Columbia Falls and Jonesport are wicked bad for lack of service.

 

I wish that was the case, but it happened throughout a large area that I drive through all the time and have never had this issue before... it must be the unit. Thank you, though.

 

Shortest routing from Sidney MT go Pembina ND uses two roads with 8T axle limits (28 & 5).

Truck settings: 5 axles, 80,000lb. Dunno if RM is assuming that those 80,000 are distributed evenly over 5 axles, but in reality each tandem has 8.5T

 

How do you figure each tandem only has 8.5 tons? That's only 17,000 which would mean for me anyway that I was running very light. Now, if you were meaning 17k per dual- that would be a max of 34k per tandem axle which 17 tons. In any case I'd suggest changing the routing scheme and see what other routes do allow your truck settings.One thing with the 720 I've found over the last many moons is that if your not satisfied with what it gives you, you can change the routing assumptions by moving to faster, or all roads, or prefer freeways etc. Like with any other device, it's up to the user to exercise a little oversight over the unit to make sure it isn't routing over questionable roads.

 

Mark, I updated my 720 last night and I think I have a corrupted audio file. My voice sounds garbled. Any ideas what to try? Thanks.

 

Canada notes:

There is a Husky truckstop on 75 in Morris, MB It is in the system as a gas station instead of a travel center.

There is a CoOp fuel station/convenience store with dirt tuck parking in Plum Coulee, MB

The speed limit for the 20km north of Morris is 100. The TND shows it as 78 (80). But when you click on the speed limit to note a correction it alreadt lists 100 as the current speed limit

Most of the speed limits have rounding errors. 110 shows as 109. 100 shows as 99 80 shows as 78 etc

It would be nice if there was a "use native units" option so it automatically switched from us standard units to metric when you cross the border.

Is would be nice if you could force it to use a certain port of entry. My company/their brokers often use bizarre ports that are out of the way. For example, for a load from Plum Coulee MB to Patterson California -- they used Portal, ND as the POE. Even when I highlighted that road segment and added as via I couldn't get it to route that way (it would cross into ND at Wallhalla then head west until crossing back into Canada at portal, then doing a u-turn and crossing back into the US.

There are a number of Cenex truck stops in ND that arent in the system.

Yes, obviously I meant each axle in the tandem has 8.5t. And your suggestion to try another route would have more merit if one knew in advance the roads were rated at less than STAA weights.

Fwiw this isn't a TND issue, it is a RM issue since the atlas shows those roads as STAA