The Bad News and the Good News and the Bad News RM TND 720 vs Garmin 770

I'm not saying how to or how not to navigate to a truck stop. I'm commenting on the weakness of the Garmin GPS in some situations. Truck stop or receiver or shipper, is irrelevant. The point is, a GPS should be expected to get you to a location if they are immediately off of an interstate exit.

 

Things I have seen in dealing with Truck GPS since 2008.

1. Roads at end of Ramps show wrong restrictions.
2. Restrictions place at wrong Lat/Long to prevent routing to the TS.
3. Crossovers - map data not showing them or not in map data to allow routing such as a left hand turn.
4. Lat/Long of the TS in the DB shown on the off Ramp so if on the other side you have to go another exit and come back to the "location" of the TS.
5. Some roads are not STAA preventing routing to the TS.
6. Parking lots still showing as Dirt in the Map DB causing Dirt Road warnings.
7. New roads not showing on the Map DB preventing correct routing.

and the list goes on.

Items as they are found and addressed are sent to the Map DB Company. HERE.

Truck Data was not highly looked at until the stand alone truck GPS became more affordable. If you are in a car and you see an error, most everybody would just ignore it and it might get correctly later in life. Even today, I am told about restrictions, road, etc, that have been in place but were missing in the Map data.

If you see any type of issue I would love for you to PM me the information so I can test it and if it is not correct then submit to the correct people to get it into the Map DB. There are 3 million drivers compared to a handful of testers. I think it was shown on the HERE site that they correct about 10k items daily. This would be world wide.

Map data can take up to a year to be corrected. Any construction site is considered construction until the state signs off on it and then it has to make it way thru the paperwork trail.

 

^^ and sometimes there may be a perceived "island median" preventing approach from a particular direction and so it routes you way around and in from the back-woods ... even putting the device in car-mode (as I do regularly to help reduce these goofy routings to common stops) can be problematic in many situations.

 

Do you still use a coal-oil lantern to read that map? Or will you actually turn on one of those new fangle lights in the trucks they got these days?

 

Sadly. It's getting warm out, now you can follow your nose to any near truck stop. (pee lot).