Truckers Tablet

Never heard of them.

 

Found out it is called IGO trucking. There is Igor for cars but the truck is seperate.

 

I have heard of iGo for cars. They barely mention "truck" on their site or press releases, so they are not hammering that aspect, at least right now anyway. But if I had to guess, I would say that it is an NGG (or iGo, whichever is more correct) Android app.

Having been involved in electronic truck navigation (i.e. GPS) since it first arrived on the scene, I can make 3 general statements no matter whose brand is stamped as "truck."

1. Truck restrictions on every block, every side street, every bridge, tunnel, and road on the entire continent of North America - is an ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL database to create and maintain. And it changes far more often than a regular car (i.e. maps, road names, and shapes) database. Many "truck-labeled" GPS programs or GPS's are NOT making this database themselves - they buy it from NavTeq or TeleAtlas, etc. Doing that way allows you to label a device as truck-friendly. But those big name databases are not complete, especially in the city streets. So companies that either make their OWN, or overlay their own ON top of a NavTeq or other maps database are, by definition, going to have more complete truck attributes (ALK/PC Miler, Rand McNally, ProMiles, etc.)

2. The OTHER features of the software (not related to truck routing) like POI's, driver log, weather, etc are vastly different depending on the programmer.

3. The actual HARDWARE that the map data and the software is RUNNING are vastly different. The quality of the screen, the speaker, the power, the internal processor and memory, the buttons, wifi or not, Bluetooth or not, Android device, Apple device, laptop, etc)

When you combine those three things, you have the total picture/opinion. I have often posed the following scenario: If you had to number these three things (with 1 being the most important to YOU and three being least, how would you: Hardware, Features, Maps/Routing.

I have nothing either negative or positive to say about this tablet because we have never tested one in the real world. But I sure am curious to see as it goes. Unfortunately so far, every "review" that I have found has been a rather obvious connection to someone involved with the company. But with 50,000 drivers on this forum, perhaps we'll get more clarity. And if this NGG releases it as an app on the iTunes or Android general market, then likely much more clarity I suppose.

 

Ordered the TT2 yesterday and it is being shipped out in the mail this morning. Hopefully this will be a good sign
that this company is making a good product that will be another alternative on the market for us truckers then
just having a few gps units. Only time will tell on this but i will keep the masses informed on here about this product.

 

yeah, keep us informed.

 

Well 1 week is almost up with the new Trucker Tablet TT2. Hands down this is so well worth the money($279.00). I Cannot see myself going back to RM again. The navigation on this is spot on. Takes me right where i want to go down to the very last 6'' it seems. Lets me save all my addresses, trip log information, easy on the eyes. Performance wise i can not be disappointed. If you are going down the road and you decide to go another way this will instantly reroute itself in 1-3 seconds. never a lag in setting up which RM seems to take forever.
Another great app on this tablet is called: BigRoad. This is a log book app. This will even let you sign the logbook, you can fax or email the records so in essence if you really do need to switch to electonic logs this does qualify...found out the easy way, got pulled into the scale and they asked to see my logs. pulled this out of the trucks and handed this to the inspector, inspector was impressed when he then compared it to my qualcomm logs and it was matching. He wanted more info about this app and i gladly gave him the info. Yes he said this is 100% acceptable. With this app i can see right away without stopping how many hours of driving i have left in the day, when i get more hours back, when my 30 minute break is due, when my 10 hour reset is finished and all that nice stuff we need to keep track of. More to come along with a youtube video i will do on it.

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigroad.ttb.android

 

Keep trucking is also a logbook app. and its free. And works with a blank for field.

As for electronic logging. unless it ties into the truck. it'll be a dead app once the eobr regs kick in.

 

I'm sure the same chinese factory churning out those tablets will have a bluetooth dongle for the truck ecm port just like Garmin and the rest are coming out with.

 

I have been using truckers tablet almost a year now. Had so many points on my fuel cards decided to get new RM720 and run them side by side to compare. Truckers tablet wins by far for routing accuracy, rerouting speed and hazmat routing. RM has some features I would like to see added to the tablet but I will depend more on the tablet. I now always have a spare backup.
Like I posted before, it is a great GPS but a poor tablet for anything else.