Truckers GPS?
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by vic0102, Jun 21, 2018.
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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!)nredfor88 Thanks this. -
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.
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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.
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