Kinda hard to ask the question in a way that makes sense so I'll just give you guys an example. If I am in Cheyenne and want to go to Dallas my Garmin, 3 year old truck GPS, will route me on I 25 to Denver then want me to take 70 to 35. I do not wish to go this way. Now, what I would like is a way to have it route me the way I want, that way I get total miles quickly. This would also be useful in winter when I know a storm is over a certain route. I hope this makes sense.
Does any GPS allow custom routing options??
Discussion in 'Trucking Electronics, Gadgets and Software Forum' started by ethos, Dec 16, 2014.
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If you add way points, from the route you want to take. It should route you more properly. If I am understanding you right. You can add up miles using your atlas pretty easily with the city to city
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I think it would be awesome if there was one that did that... But I think until the GPS picks up the route you want, you will have to manually add/subtract.
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Other than updating maps they really haven't improved much... I just upgraded to the rm 530 it has a quick route planner on it. ( I haven't messed with it, my deliveries are all within 50 miles of each other) but I still do way points to get going the right direction.
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Oh it does give me a multiple route choice... That is actually helpful.
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In the garmin you have to use the trip planner feature for that.
Enter your waypoints from your map planning.
That way you can avoid that pesky recalculating due to a one minute backup into car mode.
You can hammer detour. That sometimes works on a garmin.
I use Google for multiple routes for cars and see if I can legally shave off a few miles.
If all else fails you can use the online promiles calculator uship car/truck route & truck stop guide point to point routing.
....or just use a paper map & notecard until you get to the city.
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