A good GPS for a city driver?

Sometime the reason it takes u out arounnd is becasue of truck routes,
Once you get into a city gps has a tendency to get ya into trouble.

 

I honestly just use a map here in Chicago driving a ready mix truck. You can buy a very detailed city map for about 50 bucks for the area that you will drive in. Also you have to search around but you can also find maps with the bridge heights for EVERY bridge in the area. I have one for Chicago and the list is well over 100 bridges. Also once you learn the area you will rarely use any of it. The only thing I use my GPS on my phone for is just to pinpoint an address if its in a neighborhood that is not in Chicago or if it is on an angled street in Chicago then I go back to my map on the best route to get there. In my opinion a GPS for Local city driving is a waste!

 

I agree totally with the above. The thing with my job is I go down no truck streets and streets with 5 ton weight limits EVERY SINGLE DAY! That is also because I have to in order to get to my customers. I also back down city blocks, drive the wrong way on one way streets and all sorts of other stuff that is against the law but has to be done in most instances.

 

CoPilot Truck has a map that does ok at showing restrictions at a glance. Just having a map like that that tracks along your position is enough to figure out routing on the fly.

 

Heck ya, I know the RM will panic sometimes if you don't go the way it says ,, and it will try to get you thrown in jail while getting you back to where it wants to go. Brooklyn and Pittsburgh area come to mind.

 

Get a map book with truck routes clearly marked and make a point of learning the city as well as you can. GPS seems pretty useless in the city. Also, find a radio station with reliable traffic reports.

 

You still probably have your settings for STAA and you are trying to get on NON-STAA roads.