Rand McNally 500 gps

Couple of great threads on the Rand GPS' in Electronic Connection.

 

Yep! Love it!!

 

I just bought this about 3 weeks ago. So far only had one incident where it tried to send me down a no truck route. luckily it was marked. other then that only thing I keep forgetting to do on it is set it up everyday to match my hos for the day. I screw that up but still fun to mess with. I have it warn me when I am 3 miles over the speed limit, 3 miles from a weigh station, 1 mile from state line, 1 hour before my drive time expires for the day, 1 hour before my 14 and 70 as well. Since I run with a satellite system that is tracked by the company I have to log the way I drive. Not a bad thing but not the way to make money either. I also have the copilot which I found to be a waste of money. but it won't work with windows 7 anyway so it's useless on this new laptop.

 

yup i use a garmin 465t it works well for me. if i was looking in to another one i would like to check out the rand macnally

also I'm not going to lecture you on the safe and proper usage of a gps in a big truck....but come on you can't blindly follow it. always check it's routing with yours. don't count on it to get you to the truck entrance. and we are professional drivers so were supposed to be watching our signs on the road and looking for truck routing, low clearances, weigh stations,ect...

speaking of weigh stations...if you miss one cas you are not paying attention to your signs don't wip your dam truck over the grass area (almost turning your truck over in front of me) to get back on the ramp to the scale house.
just pull off to the shoulder in front of the scale house and walk your happy but up to it and say please advise. usually they will say go to the next exit turn around go to the next exit and come threw the scale. o and then stop and bring in paperwork. lol