Rand McNally intelliRoute TND 500

Mark

Does the TND700 show the surface roads in more detail?

And does it auto zoom based on truck speed?

Thanks

 

Running in car mode makes absolutely no sense. My Tom Tom does that VERY well and costs a fraction of what the TND does. I would like to see a route and the restrictions on that route marked so we can make a decision. Simply not giving you a route because it cant find what it believes is or isnt a truck route makes it a useless tool. Just like the other driver said about small towns in the NE. Not every business is in an industrial park right off the freeway.

 

Please clarify this. The Rand unit already color-codes the roads so that you can get a general view of the truck-legal routes. It shows more or less of this type of detail depending on your zoom level of course.

In your scenario, what would the GPS show? Like a weight limit, hazmat symbol, or bridge height for every bit of road? And it would do this for the route once you calculated a destination in - or do you mean on ALL of the roads being shown on the map regardless of whether they were part of you current calculated route?

If it did show all of the various restrictions, would this information change depending on your current truck profile settings? Or would everyone see all of the restrictions regardless of their height, weight, length, or hazmat status?

 

He means if the unit cannot find a legal route, it plots the route anyway, tells you there are restrictions it can't get around, and gives you the option of running the route through the restrictions (which may or may not be there.) The 465t does this.

 

Since it has a bigger screen - more details? depends on the zoom level. And the auto zoom is depended on how close you are to your next turn. In the next version you have a wider choice of zoom levels that you would like to view as you near your next turn and then the screen would only go back out to the level you have selected.

Thanks,
mark

 

Exactly! Show me the best possible route it can come up with along with any possible restrictions and let the driver figure it out. You can bet if you have an address and a load of freight, there will be a way to get a truck in there.

As far as the restrictions changing by truck profile, they would. If you plug in a 13'6" van, an 11' tanker could make it under that 12' underpass. I always assumed thats what the variable truck profile was for. If I'm not running Haz-Mat I surely wouldnt want to drive 40 miles around a tunnel. I could also drive a 15 ton truck over a 15 ton bridge but might not want to drive a 40 ton over it. Basically when it plots the route it just tells you on the screen that there is a weight restriction, underpass or whatever. It could even warn you about it like it does the scales. "One mile to low underpass" or if your my wife " OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOUR THIS STUPID" or something of that nature lol jk.

If it tells you about the restriction it believes is there, then its the responsibility of the driver to research it and decide if its safe to do drive it. Look in the back of the Atlas, call the customer like we normally do anyway, call the state police if you cant find out any other way. There are ways to find these things out. I just dont like the TND telling me I cant get there.

 

Just a note - the restrictions are in front of all Rand McNally atlas's.

What you wish to have is a warning showing you the distance to the height\weight restriction?

Thanks,
Mark

 

Pop up a list, like the turn list, of restrictions where we can click on each one and see the map where it is. As for the map, just stick a sign on it, like a little road sign. We can tell from the shape what it is.

 

I would like to see a route no matter what the restrictions. Currently it just wont give you one if it cant find what it thinks is legal or safe. I would really like to be able to rely on this thing a little. Running it with no restrictions reduces it to a PND. And no route at all is frustrating, I can figure out what I need to do if it gives me a route and says there are restrictions on it.

When the Tom Tom is routing you and it finds things like toll roads or ferries it will ask you if you want to avoid them or not. It will also tell you if a road is gravel. If Rand would do something similar, lets say you want to go into Chicago, it gives you a route but informs you there is a low underpass along the route. It has it marked with an icon so you can check it out and then a warning when you are approaching it just in case. Its basically giving you something to work with rather than nothing.

Today it was telling me that U.S 59 North in Texas was a weight restricted route???? 37000 lbs.

 

passed this on to RM ..should have an answer on the weight restriction issue.

Thanks,
Mark