Do trucking companies furnish a GPS?

My brother is an O/O and recently got a Rand McNally 720 and couldn't be happier with it. He saved up points on his Pilot/Flying J card for over a year and paid for it off his points.

 

... and be VERY careful if you miss a turn and ask the GPS system to Reroute you...

... MANY is the time that option has taken me into truck restricted residential areas, asked me to make 120º right turns into dirt alley's, asked me to drive PAST my destination and get on the freeway to take an exit and turn around and come BACK to the exit to my destination, routed me onto an unpaved road during a driving rainstorm into "gumbo dirt" in Alabama, etc. etc. etc.

Best thing if you missed your turn is to find a safe place to STOP, ask for the reroute, THEN get onto Google Maps and figure out if the new route is safe or the best route.

 

Microsoft Streets and Trips with the Truck Stops Plus add-on (http://www.truckstopsplus.com/) is nice if you want something for the PC. A lot of users also like CoPilot (http://copilotgps.com/us/truck/), it is available on a lot of different platforms (iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Windows Mobile).

There are lots of options available but none are perfect. Probably best to consult 2 or more when doing your trip planning.

 

We have the Smart Truck Route app on our phones. We use it sometimes. It's only $40 for a year.

 

Lol, it has a power button. I forgot that, mine had a picture viewer where you could upload pictures on it. You know how some hang pictures up. It also had a built in MP3 player where you could load songs as it was hooked directly to the stereo.

It also had a Pilot, Loves and Flying J icon. You pressed on one of them and it would tell you where everyone of them were starting with the closest. I liked that feature along with the yellow pages built in. I could find any restaurant in the area and get food delivered to my truck. I'll never forget a China man delivered me some take out in his broken English he said "Ohhhhh, I never deliver big truck before".

 

10 foot bridge = bad
10 ton bridge floor it and hope for the best

 

My company uses Teletracs which puts a GPS unit in each truck that doubles as a message system and tattletale.. Downloads maps on the go through the ATT mobile data network. Does a good job most of the time though the map database does need to be updated more often than it is.