Looking for a good gps

Never heard of anything called "DieselBoss".

Are you looking for a GPS system to use with a laptop or a stand alone GPSr?

 

I use a garmin it is truck route.

 

A GPS just gets your location, but if you're looking for something to route a truck (due to a lot of reading here and other places), it looks like the software that routes a truck, with a GPS is chancy. I've used a GPS for many years, and have recently began to learn to be a driver (not yet one, but understand the concept). It seems to me (I have a Garmin handheld) that it's better to check your atlas against the route that your GPS gives you. I know that there are a couple of companies that claim their maps will regulate height, length, and weight restrictions, but haven't heard that everyone trusts them. As a newbie driver that loves GPS, I'll use the GPS, but check it all against my atlas.

 

Ya, no truck routing is 100%... they all will say something such as "must follow local truck routes and limitations"... another words once you get near a town your pretty much on your own far as local truck restrictions. They have the low bridge thing covered fairly well (again not 100%, i would say 99% for low bridge)... So, you have to pay close attention to truck routes in town...

 

Any one heard of worldnav trucking routing gps? I found a site that sale it and its only $400 bucks.Anyone know about this system?

 

GPS is a helpful tool, but only one of several in your "toolbox". It needs to be used together with a Motor Carrier Atlas, specific instructions from the shipper/receiver/carrier, and, most importantly, what your eyes are telling you on the ground. GPS is invaluable in being able to zoom from an overall view right down to street level. You could never carry enough street level maps to equal this capability. A unit that includes truck specific information, or that allows you to adjust the routing to accomodate other information you may get from the atlas and other sources would be prefered. Don't fall for the routing any GPS gives you without weighing it with other sources.

 

I like Microsoft Street and Trips for Laptop $80 with GPS $35 without. Don't use it for NE as it plans route by travel times based for cars not trucks and doesn't have truck restrictions but I have used it long enough and been a trucker long enough to know when to modify routing to keep me legal. For the northeast I use Co-Pilot ($299) but I just cant learn to love it in the rest of the country. Screen brightness is major Problem I have. Also as far as actual GPS goes I prefer not even to use it. I don't need to know exactly where I am on the road unless I have a problem. I prefer just to route myself and go.

 

Oh also Microsoft is correct within 1 block i figure 99% of the time. Co-Pilot is right within 1 block about 90-95%.