truck gps

always had good luck with the truck garmin. now some other driver will say they are junk and this other kind is better. its kind of like which is better a chevy or a ford. what ever you buy try and get there model for trucks and not cars. lots of luck

 

read the threads. it's been asked a million times.

everybody has their own flavor. they all do the same thing pretty much. and if you don't have the parameters set. will all get you into trouble.

if your money savy. you'll buy copilot from the google play store. $150. own the software for life. and download free apps. you've got ALL the features of the more costly truck units. without the problems of the more expensive units.

or you could go with the one that everyone seems to like. and spend countless hours asking why it does what it does.

i've been using copilot for 4 years now. and it works just as good on single core processors as is it does on quad core processors. and will work on any android device. i save my old phones and use those as my truck gps. when i don't need the old phone anymore. it goes to a family member.

no one in my family is buying gps's. as the car version is free. or $10. and all old phones are kept specifically for gps.

 

Welcome to trucking! This is a very common question and has lots of threads already started about it. See that while box in the upper left corner of your computer screen... just type GPS in there, hit search and you'll find lots of good suggestions. Do a little research/reading and you'll find a good fit. My Rand McNally TND 720 is pretty darn good but nothing's 100% accurate, so make sure you don't become reliant on just a GPS because it will fail you and that could get very ugly. Good luck!

 

moving forward good advice its a tool not a way of life. when i started trucking in the 60s all you had was a atlas. i usually did not give the guy on the other end of the phone any grief about directions but if he said cant you read a atlas. that would set me off and my standard answer for that was yes but its stuck up your xxx and i cant read it. back then you did not have to be politicly correct be safe out there

 

IMO, that need to be politically correct is nothing but BS spewed from today's spineless society... there's nothing like our good old fashioned 'tough love' style, but some folks don't like to hear the truth these days. Needless to say, I hope drtuck will also learn how to read/understand a printed road atlas else s/he might end up in a thread over at http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/trucking-accidents/
but I certainly hope not!

 

moving forward thanks for not saying i spelled politically incorrect usually reread my posts a little better. you are right about our society,am retired now but run a school bus,had a mother call the school that i was four minutes late picking her kid up. it didnt matter to her that there was 12 inches of snow and slick. usually i am rite on time but when the weather is bad i tell the kids to say in the house and will honk when i get there. so it takes a little longer to get them on the bus. she didnt care she was late for work and those other kids could stand outside so she would not be late. i am 70 years old and it was really hard to be in the principles office on speaker phone and keep my mouth shut. b safe out there

 

Rand McNally 730 is a pretty good GPS. You can go to http://tripmaker.randmcnally.com/ and customize a route there, and then sync your custom route to your 730. Of course never discard your road atlas. When you create a custom route you need to make sure those bridge heights will let you pass under it.

 

windows 8 is one package. designed for phones, tablets, and computers. stupid move on msft's part.
i don't own win8 anything. but i do have the computer software. i don't see why it couldn't install on a tablet in the same manner. but it might be a seperate price between the 2 platforms. i know i had to pay for it on my laptop. even though i alraedy paid for it on android.

i have the win8 software. but i don't use it. and the 2 laptops i bought. we're deleted in place of win7.

win10 was released for beta last september. it's supposed to go public next month, last i heard.