Stay Ahead Of Your GPS

A GPS is defiantly one of the "double edge swords" of trucking. You will learn the roads faster if you have to pay attention to where you are and where you are going. It's too easy to just stay lost and let the GPS tell you where to go, never remembering where you were.

 

Yep. Always look at the "overview" of the route and look to see that it makes sense based on whatever you may know or think. If there is a discrepancy, need to reconcile the situation either in your mind or on your device.

For example, the Garmins do a lot of goofy things when it thinks (assumes) there may be an "island" when there isn't. Example headed west on I-70 in Indiana and want to go to the Flying J at Spiceland. [I used the GPS to plan my cross-country stops and distances in between them] Anyway, it will take you pass the J exit, down to the next exit, then have you double back and approach from the west. I have came to consider these flaws part of it's charm.

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I'd rather anyone with a question ask it and not worry about wasting poor moony's time

My truck GPS thinks there are low overpasses in that area and tries to reroute me.

 

I wanna know why one cant use their phone? Its no different then a tablet and my phone works just fine.

 

snowwy, the commercial GPS's supposedly know the low clearances and road weight limits and all that. Which I have found none of them do even a remotely satisfactory job of. Only way to do it is know your route before you go. Use GPS only as estimated distance to go and a "you are here" on a map.

No GPS is a match for using brain power. Unless one doesn't have enough gray matter ....

 

Youre not telling me anything new. Not many have brainpower. But theres nothing with using a phone. Perhaps the op should rephrase to car gps. My phone has had no problems using commercial software installed.

 

I downloaded the CoPilot App which has a CMV version so it's the same navigation program as we have on the truck's QualComm.

Most people will be talking about the "maps" programs on smartphones which are ok for cars but does not filter the roads for the limitations of a large CMV.

 

I like to think of GPS as a crazy girlfriend.

Half the time she looks out for me and does the right thing.
The other half she is trying to screw me over and embarrass me.

Once you figure out which half is talking to you it's pretty easy to stay out of trouble.

 

Too funny!!!