How much cellphone data need for over the road?

It really depends on how much porn or you tubes you watch. You can use use Truckerpath, Google maps, and listen to police scanners 24 hours a day and only use a gig and a half a month. Watch 4 movies and you are on your data cap.

 

I was wondering who would bring up
Porn glad I didn't have to

 

When I was staying out 4+ weeks at a time, I was using 35-40 gigs a month.

 

I watch a lot of Netflix. Sprint starts sending evil emails once you go over 24 gigs. Then they throttle your speeds. No issue. Just use the other phone. After that 24 gigs, use the 6 gigs of hotspot.

As far as the porn, how can you burn that much data, I mean really, your not trying to hold out to impress anyone. It's your hand for crying out loud. You don't want a hand cramp LMAO. And I know your not watching it for the quality acting. LoL

 

Not really. Youtube... internet.... Pandora for when the iPod gets to repeatin g my same 1000 songs over and over.... trip planning with Google maps and street view to get a good idea where it is. (No I don't follow the directions just use the maps for well, a map) and Netflix or hulu if you got it. Data adds up really quick

 

I think most drivers agree the Qualcomm GPS navigation system is not very good. I have no confidence in mine when I'm tempted to use it. I enter the address and sometimes it's right on and other times it's nowhere close.

I think some drivers use CoPilot a phone app that loads street-level map of USA on your phone taking a couple of GB of space and they say it works very well and uses practically no cell data. You don't have to have a GPS. I'd probably buy a car GPS before I would rely on my Qualcomm navigation. I did OTR for years without a GPS, new drivers turn over ALL decisions to their GPS. smh.

 

It varies per person even truckers. I use 24 gigs rollover plan with Verizon. Non truckers freak out over that since they use wifi at home and their job but for me 24 GB is not that much.

 

The GPS built into my truck uses copilot. It's decent. It's gotten me screwed up a few times tho. I like to use itwhen I'm close but I always check the route with Google to make sue I'm going to the right place. It has a habit of trying to take me to a different address. Only once did it try and route me through a bad road tho.. otherthen that I use my big book of maps and Google to figure out the fastest Interstate combo

 

Verizon works good, their unlimited data sucks. Extremely extremely slow once you run out of gigs. I watch a lot of YouTube and burn about 40g a month.

 

Well.... Tomorrow you can redo your verizon plan.

$80 unlimited talk text data.

So there you go.

Slow you down after 22 gigs according to the reports.
You can only hotspot 10 gigs so no big screen stuff or online gaming.

Costs more money after that. But device data is unlimited now....

Dumb truck drivers are so uninformed.

Lord knows I lost of trends while out on the road.