Drivers, why are we using GPS units?

Get a load of this guy. He thinks I'm an old fart like pack rat or something!

Haha, no my new friend. There's a good chance you may be older than myself, and I got into trucking to pay my tuition bills for my BA in networking tech so I'm fairly technologically inclined.

You're missing my point, the majority are getting it, though.

Someone a a few posts made a good point about the hand cranked fuel pumps, and analogy about how the modernization of this industry isn't all bad. I agree.

but...These GPS units...they're more trouble than they're worth...it makes us lazy and allows the new guys to find out the hard way that here junk.

MY biggest gripe? The cost. I'll never pay more than $100 for some piece of crap that is going to cause more trouble than it's worth.

like your gps? Hey that's great. Throw your .02 in and move on. No need to get so hostile.

 

Oh I forgot to answer these:

*sigh* paccar, the company that makes Peterbilt and Kenworth have worked a deal with Garmin to add a gps unit to the center dash area for heir trucks. From this touch screen dash you can access gauges, technical, spec, performance and maintenance data from the truck. It also has a nice Bluetooth feature, allows you to work with the built in Sirius radio, and finnaly yes- use the built in gps.

just because there is a Garmin dezel in the 587 I drive doesn't mean I had any choice in what went into it.

Also woefully incorrect about the different brands of gps being dissimilar. Again I will grant you that there are some big differences, and I would say that the rand gps sets are by far the oddest in how they're setup to find points of interest and addresses. BUT- overall having owned garmins, and PC millers, and cobras, and rands, hell I even used a magellen and tomtom! - I can say they all operate along the same lines. What's more, I can say that with experience


Another thing I can say? They all suck.