GPS that lets you program route

I have the Garmin 570 and thats what I do. You could do it with the old 560 also.

Several ways of doing it. Can add destination points to the existing route,.. or do step by step increments (My preferred method) to plan out the route.

This is a must have feature for when doing permitted routes that the GPS will otherwise not normally route.

Also,.. the Garmin is not infallible,.. it does require some common sense. Never blindly follow the GPS with out checking its routing first. The Garmin drives me nuts coming from CT down through the Bronx to cross the GW. Some of the bridges are marked 12'5 on the ends,.. the Garmin will want to route you down through the Deegan and back up. Stay on 95 despite its aggravating insistence that a low bridge is coming up. Anyone who has ever been through NY will tell you,.. "Friends dont let friends use the Deegan".

Hurst

 

Have you done this? Make a specific route on the computer, and then send it to your mobile? I just did it, and it sent the start and end, but not the elaborate route that I made up on the computer.

As far as using the Garmin dezl 770 to make a specific route, it's a pain in the butt. It works pretty decent if your routing on big roads and state roads... but if your trying to route on county roads? It'll take half an hour to do a hour drive. Setting a via point at every turn, waiting for it to calculate before you set the next via point at the next turn... I gave up on it.

 

Copilot has the capability of dragging route. AND adding stops.

Least it used to. The app has been updated recently and it kind of sucks now.

EDIT::: You can add stops. I don't see the drag route anymore.

 

Because I did a lot of O/S I had to program my Garmins to follow the permitted routes. I did as already mentioned--entering via points to get the correct route. A little trick--to minimize the problem you mention--is to enter the via points from the destination backwards. I found that I had to enter fewer via points that way and so it was quite a bit quicker plotting the trip.

 

I've done it before, with 4-5 stops. I thought that it was using the routing I had selected, but it turns out the app must have picked the same route when I loaded it on my phone. Just tried again now with a different set of stops and got the same result you did. Darn!

Maybe I'll put in a feature request for the functionality I thought it had!

 

No updated drivers for your antannae?

 

When I use my Rand McNally to plot a route for oversize I never enter my dimensions or weight and sometimes have to reduce my weight to 12000 lbs gross weight before it will properly calculate the route from point to point.

I enter the via waypoints by zooming in and touching the location on the road, like picking a point somewhere on the exit ramp. I save the route in a folder if I know it's likely I need to run it again in the future.

 

Thats actually a good idea. I always change my dimensions to suite the load,.. but I see where doing it your way would make doing point to point routing much easier.

I love my Garmin,.. but it can be like a fussy woman sometimes when you know the way and it wants to route you differently.

Hurst

 

The first oversize load I tried to program by changing to actual weight and dimensions. The resulting routing was nowhere near close and refused to let me stay on route even with very tight point by point via connections.

Then I remembered that in parts of the oil patch in Oklahoma I often have to drop my weight in parameters because many roads and bridges are weight restricted. The oil companies cut deals with local governments to use and abuse roads during drilling and fracking.

So I tried that with the oversize load, also going back to standard dimensions. Then it worked like a charm.