Truck GPS apps

It's good and I'm still using it so far so good. If it got me out of NYC then you should know it's legit but, each to it's own.
Ps. Yes truck version

 

well this should pop a few blood vessels but I use the regular version. BUT I use it only as a reminder of turns, to tell me how far till next stop and basically as a tool. I program it. I tell it where I want to go and how I want to get there. My company has very good, driver written directions we can get on the qcomm though.

One other thing I just discovered about CoPilot and my Nexus7. I also use an app called Truxster. It has most of the truck stops around this fine country. I used to use the Truxster app on my phone to look up the address and then input it into the CoPilot app on my tablet manually. Since I installed the Truxster app on my tablet now when I find the truck stop I want in Truxster I just click the map tab and I can use CoPilot to bring up the location. Now all I have to do is click the "Route through Here" button in CoPilot and it will add the truck stop to an existing route I have already planned. Never knew it would do that

 

So when you review a route copilot has decided for you, you can change the roads on that route to the ones you want to take? I am looking for a gps that will let me decide what road, highway to take.

 

Yup, you can select any road and then select "route through here".

 

Thats outstanding! That sold the product. That is the way I always run my routes. I have an old Magellan that lets me decide what roads, but is just for cars.

 

yep what cowboytech said. One thing I noticed lately is the miles to destination now shows the miles to the "route through" point I selected. Sometimes it's OK but I usually want to know the mileage to my next stop not some point I selected just to get the route I wanted.

Plus also, get that Truxster app. it downloads direct to your tablet/phone so once dl'ed it needs no internet to work. then you can basically use it as your POI's. Truxster also does rest stops, locals (various things close to your GPS location) and walmarts

 

I kept debating on getting a RM or an app but now that im pretty much local I have been memorizing the routes and when I am delivering to a Target I have not been to yet then a guy who has been on this dedicated fleet for 11 years is my GPS when I call him up lol. other than that I use the quallcom but I have to be careful since lately it has been trying to send me down restricted streets in certain areas.

 

A couple of things to keep in mind when using your phone as a navigational GPS:

1. The GPS chip in the phone isn't nearly as robust as the one in a dedicated GPS. It was designed to give an approximate position to 911. The limitations are due primarily to size. Both work fine on the open highway, but when you get downtown, the phone GPS will fall apart a LOT sooner than the dedicated GPS.

2. If you are navigating and the phone rings, you lose your map...

 

No and no...

All the Android phones have've had been accurate within twenty feet, even in most buildings. Also, you can have the navigator in the foreground while on a call in the background.

 

I agree with Cowboytech. My phone (although I use a tablet for nav) can pinpoint me inside a building when I use Google maps in Sat view. Plus with ATT I can talk and use data at the same time...but never when driving!

The tablet uses the same number of sats that a dedicated GPS uses. I can watch the bars for each one dance while it shows their signal strength.