Real World Test: Garmin 465T Trucking GPS.

I have Dr. Nightmare voice downloaded into mine. I've only had one problem out of mine where I was in Waco, TX. it apparently got confused trying to get from I-35 to M&M/Mar's which company directions are confusing as well the first time there but other than that I've haven't had a lick of trouble with mine. I alway's double check with my map and the shortest route setting is basically the same thing companies use for fuel routing which is pretty much 99% the same.

I update it everytime I come home and sense it's based on the same routes my company gives and my company doesn't allow for use of the QC while moving then it save's me time from having to write down my route and local in town directions to a customer on several different reasons. I like it, has saved me time. Just have to keep it on mute most of the time because Dr. Nightmare tends to talk to much and pop off to many smart ### remarks ha ha.

 

I will plan my ### off and review the company rout and cross check my lap top maps and upload to the 465T and do it all over again, and after triple checking the ATLAS, you know what..... Something will go wrong on me and I will have to command the situation like a pro....( being a rookie)... Yup! I'm worried I might have to re-rout myself to the proper direction and location ( and I absolutely KNOW IT WILL happen to me eventually)( Later rather than sooner I hope)... This takes a pro to make it look easy & effortless.... I must obtain poise and self control and execute like my trainer would. (A backup plan for all exits?) hummmmmm ..... This is where experience is KING and a rookie DIES, and people, I'm leveling with you all, I don't want to go threw this..... Turning the unit around in NON FORGIVING rush hour traffic.... " But I'm LOST people"...... You see, I understand.... I will MASTER control of my unit and all else will follow in place. I am a heck of a driver and the skill needed to manipulate a 80 ft unit is a matter of knowing my parameters and becoming 1 with my truck. I will be able to feel my fenders and back end soon after I start driving. The (CONE) placement has realistic meaning.. I will developed my parameters feel with the orange cones on the training site.... I must learn this... 45Degree backing and knowing where your fender faring is & what about the bumper.. The GPS 465T will be just a tool assisting my planning skills (or following company rout skills) with a grey matter engagement all the way... I realize this will come after school is out and road life is being introduced to me.... I will plan, and plan again... ....

PS: I hear rumors that all traffic will stop for you and let you turn around or manipulate your unit and then when they are sure you are finished they wave to you and smile and then continue on their way.

 

My major gripes about the 465T is that it won't allow me on some of the Parkways in Kentucky, even though they're rated for trucks.

A few times I've run into it telling me I can't be on a certain road due to either weight or length restrictions out of somewhere when it just routed me down that road to get to the shipper/receiver.

Also, it will reboot itself when I turn onto exits to get fuel rather than recalculating.

Other than those three things, it's been very good for me.

 

Yea I need to retract my previous endorsement of this product.

It was with me the whole time on my last tour of the country and it is really pretty bad. I had to finally take it off Truck mode and just use the Car mode. It would seem they did no research about truck routes ETC and it just seems that putting it in Truck mose just messes everything up. It has zero idea where a truck should and should not go. I have had it with this thing. It doesnt even know basic truck routing such as trucks cannot go through Atlanta on 75. I have seen this thing spit out some completely ridiculous routing. Just the other day I needed 9th Ave adress, but this thing would not let me input it and defaulted to 9th st every time with no way to change it. Only by my own wits did I get to 9th Ave. No thanks to this paper weight.
I wish I had saved the money and just got the cheap car one. I will now try to Ebay this piece of crap off on someone else.

Final Vote.
Two thumbs down.

 

I have had to replace mine twice.

Software glitches:

It will turn itself off.
It won't reboot.
It won't turn on.
It won't turn off.
It can't caluculate the route.
It defaults back to where I was a month ago, if it will reboot.
I cannot erase stored information.
I cannot update the software.
It freezes.

Other problems not related to some software glitch:

It does not give truck speed limits.
It give bad routes, at times, because many roads are identified as non truck routes.

I run two GPS units, side by side because neither is reliable. I have the Nuvi 660 and the Nuvi 465T.

When they work, they work great. The problem is to get them to work. I am ready to give up on Garmin and try another brand.

 

I have had the NUVI 465T since it first came out, 2 years ago. I use it, am happy with it. I do update it every 3 months, and I paid for the life time map updates. It does good on truck routes for me.

Entering Addresses does take some time when it won't give me the option for 9th AVE. Usually find out the city needs to be changed, and the street is there. Now I verify the route it SUGGESTS, and do make corrections to the route as I drive. Never had any problems with it recalculating the route.

Trucks can go into Atlanta on 75 and 85 and 20 for local deliveries. My currently updated unit, on my last trip near Atlanta routed me around on the loop instead of through, so maybe garmin has fixed that flaw.

 

I've been through Atlanta on 75. I've seen a few that have but I don't recomment it because the lanes are so #### tight and a few place's you can't even fit the truck between the lines no matter how hard you try.

Garmin has an option to let them download from your GPS the infomation on routing as long as you didn't hit cancel on a route that was actually restricted and it goes into their system for updates and restricted routes. If you do go down a restriced road and the GPS knows it and you hit cancel then you just gave false info to them but if you go down a road that the GPS shows restricted but it really isn't then that's good info they need.

 

wait tilll you update it .no longer offers truck routing