Best commercial GPS

NEWSFLASH::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::IF GPS wants you too turn on a street that looks SUSPECT........DON'T TURN::::::::
It will recalculate.

 

(((((((((I couldn’t find any reference to whether or traffic on Copilots site, it’s good to know they offer it. I may have to finally get a device to run it on. A phone is just too small for me and I don’t want to use a laptop as it’s just too big so I guess I will need to finally get a tablet.

Rand does require an Internet connection for weather but its traffic uses a special power cord that has a receiver built in. I think it uses a cell phone connection, not sure but it does not require the end user to have Internet.[/QUOTE])))))))))))

active traffic costs $10 per year i think is what i just paid 2 months ago. weather is just a forecast of your current location or destination. if i remember right. i've never used it. my copilot is just a gps with traffic added. i have phone apps to do everything else.

when i buy a new phone, i save my old phone. the old phone becomes my new gps tablet. i have tablets, but they never get used. the phones have 4.3 inch screens. which is the same size as my copilot hand unit. i don't need a bigger screen. i defenitly don't want the added lighting inside the cab at night. when the family gets new phones, i take their old phones, install copilot and give to their parents.

be creative and you'll find ways to use copilot. without paying for a actual device. and since copilot is, or was, free for cars. everyone gets a free gps.

gps, when set up and used properly, is actually the best tool one can have. and far outrules the atlas. it doesn't require you to read a map and write down your directions. but if you want to look at your route. by all means. it doesn't require you to speak spanish as your pulled over trying to right down directions. it won't make you drive SLOWLY through town while your looking for your street to turn on, BACKING UP TRAFFIC. it won't make you guess how to leave your destination enroute to your next destination. and it don't worry about if you have a cell signal to make your call. nor will it make you look for a payphone.

gps will do the job twice as fast as the atlas. so, while the atlas is looking for his destination. and hoping he doesn't go down the wrong street. cuz the atlas DON'T list bridges and what not inside of town. gps is already been and gone down the road, and taking a nap.

 

Snowwy has a smart and well thought out response to the GPS/atlas debate.
The gps has more info, visual and capability than any piece of paper could ever contain.
I have a truckers atlas, but its pretty dusty.I use a garmin dezl 760. It has a few flaws, and picks a few stupid routes. Thats partially due to my settings. I have it set up for 80,000lbs and flammable placcards. So it might run me around a block instead of a more direct route.... usually adding yards not miles to my trip.
It might have a brain fart every once in awhile but nothing that I can't get around. I'd say 99% of the time it is spot on.
My altas is like the wall of pay phones at the truckstop in 1989.... you had to stop, wait for a free phone, use your calling card, maybe get a busy signal, then transfer to someone on a noisey dock that gave you poor directions....

 

Please count on your gadgets, because you can't buy common sense.
You can't buy experience, either.
If I just started driving otr I would not use a gps for the first year or so.

 

You can use it immediately,just don't blame GPS if you screw up.

 

Now I would agree with you, but I don't see your logic in this. The army and DOD, along with other agencies like NASA, purchase items and gear off of a "lowest bidder" method. As Garmin is trusty and I have used them throughout my entire military career, the fact remains that they may (that is right I said MAY) not be the true best one out there.

Everyone will have their own personal preference when it comes to ANY electronic device that is out there. Myself, I will be buying the rand mcnally GPS. Figured if EVERYONE points you towards the rand mcnally atlas' than their GPS should be just as good! I have seen a tremendous amount of good reviews on it and plan on getting the newer version, the the 730 since it has a faster processor and less lag and wait times.

 

Why does it say Trucker: EX-29 yrs? Were you military 29 yrs ago?

 

How the heck would you know? You aren't even a truck driver.

 

If I switched from S&T that is what I would consider. How do you like the software? How much $?