GPS before orentation

I waited until after orientation and wished I hadn't as it meant I wasn't at home to take advantage of cheaper online prices and had to pay full retail truck stop price.

 

Buy a trucking atlas. Learn to use it. Get routing from your company, if available. If not, call your customer and get local directions from them. Be sure to specify "truck" routing. (Had a gal give me directions once. And she had me following the bus route. Low Bridge!).

It's far better to tell an officer that this is the way my company/customer told me to go than to say "But my GPS told me to go this way". That just makes YOU look dumb. And GPSs are notorious for not having a clue where low clearances/low weight limits/non-truck routes are in cities.

 

My rand mcnally can sometimes give me hair brained routings but it has never routed me under low bridges or other hazardous non-truck routes. If anything it errs on tbe side of caution and squawks about exceeding weight limits for roads that were perfectly fine...well they were fine when I drove over then. Can't vouch for after.

Check the settings on yours to make sure the truck dimensions are cotrect for your truck.

 

Some of the new trucks have them. As for how good they work is in question. My friend drives a 2016 Pete, and his sucks, and uses his phone. I use Rand McNally, but of course at times you must be smarter than the GPS. Also, bet money is a CB, nothing better than being able to talk with your fellow driver when u need an answer to anything on the road.

 

Its the tnd 730. Its for trucks,but you can set the dimensions as not all trucks will have the same height and weight.

 

Some qualcomms have a navigation option. Mine does and I tried it a couple times but it is not as user friendly as the rand mcnally.

The big issue is that you cannot do anything with the qc nav when the truck is moving.

 

Learn how to use this:



It will get you to your destination better and more accurately than any machine. And it won't ever be out of service range and won't ever run out of power.

 

If my gps ever runs out of power I won't be able to get to my destination anyway...even with an atlas.