Truckers GPS?

Ok, call me lucky. Think I can get a million miles out of it?

 

I highly doubt it. But keep trying.

 

I can only speak of two units, the Garmin Dezl 770 and CoPilot Truck.

Dezl 770 does everything right, except navigate, show a map, and route options.

CoPilot is much much better for showing up to three options, maps with detail, and (since the driver has a say), routing.

Though CoPilot did give a six mile “fish hook” final approach to the FedEx Grove City Ohio facility (from Indianapolis).

It seems these two systems are truly afraid of giving drivers the information to enable practical routing.

Such as a mini spreadsheet showing:

Use of business routes, either as miles, or yes/no.
Count of left turns (intersections)
Count of right turns (intersections)
Count of traffic lights
Distance traveled (put it in the sheet, don’t make us look for it)
Turns tighter than “90 degrees” (that route to Grove City)
Some metric of inclines, declines.
RR Grade crossings (for the HazMat drivers)

May not fit on a phone, but it would on a tablet.

Until then, the vendors think they know better than us.
And it’d be nice to know how many truck stops on the route, the whole route, not just the first 50 miles (CoPilot, I’m looking at you!)

 

I used to recommend Rand McNally but not anymore. Their software is great but the hardware has become undependable. I have to figure out what to switch to.

 

Time for them to release the software on iOS and android

 

They have the software on android. But I don't think it's available anymore.

truckerstablet.

 

That is what I thought of also. My Samsung phone has run with no hardware problems for five years. I asked if they had an app but they dont.

 

It's called igo Navigation. I have it. They update maps 1x a year so it's always too far behind . I've tried them all.

 

They dont want that. They want you to buy a piece of #### unit every year. More profit for them.

 

I looked in to that igo. Seems to be a tough one to get. Wonder if it's even still around.