tnd tablet/ practical miles configuration

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You will never get those numbers to match. No two programs will pick the same route. My GPS will often pick a different route than it did last time, on the same load, with all the parameters set the same way. Long as its close, like only a few percent different, that's the best you can hope for.

 

Unless things have changed. rand doesn't use a lot of roads. They're mostly staa roads.

When I tried it out. From Vegas to Phoenix. It wanted to use the 17 from flagstaff. Instead of u.s. 93 from kingman.

Trucks are allowed on that road. Till you get to the turn off towards 17. A few miles ahead trucks aren't allowed.

 

Things always has been the same since the first TND in 2008 @snowwy. What you did not do since you left your settings at Default (your omission) with the Trailer at 53'/102" is that is considered an STAA setting. AZ-93 and we have beat this subject to death the past 6-7 years between you and me.. What you failed to understand is that Parts of AZ-93 determined by the State of AZ were Non-STAA which is a 48'/96" trailer.. Remember AZ is the state and the state of AZ DOT determined parts of AZ-93 were Non-STAA. Rand does not set the restrictions on the roads, the State DOT's do.

Just because a truck is on it does not make it a truck legal route.

I have mentioned many many many many times since you seem to always bring this subject up and you only had your TND for several weeks. I offered to look at it with shipping both way paid for... but you got another Manufacture and dropped the TND.

What you could and should have done was simply change your trailer settings to 48'/96" wide and by magic you would have been routed on AZ-93.

So please again, drop this referring back to AZ-93 from your issue which was not an issue at all from the first time you mentioned it 6-7 years ago.

RM routes you on the roads based upon your truck settings and what the current maps on your unit have in them for restrictions.

Again,,, AZ put the restrictions in, not RM and this never was an issue. I posted several screen shots showing the difference in settings.

So before you go again knocking Rand down, think first and think about how many times I have explained this to you over the last 6-7 years..

Please move on @snowwy with this non-issue you have with Rand.

 

It depends on what maps and the year of the maps in part and the algorithm's used by the program.

PS. if you had looked a little further there is a support thread for questions like this for the Rand Units.

 

And yet the atlas says it's legal. Also produced by rand.

 

Your company probably uses PC Miler for the route suggestions and it goes by practical miles, RM does not and only uses quickest and shortest. The only GPS that I know of that uses practical routing is Co-Pilot as it's made by the same company as PC Miler so the RM will be different routing a lot of the time. This has been my biggest complaint of the Rand units so if you want to route the same as the PC miler routes you will have to put in Via points along the way.

 

When you first had the non-issue back in 2009/2010 a few sections of it were Non-STAA. I listed those.. Things actually progressed by the State of AZ.. They build bypasses. So WHEN you had the Non-issue yes there were a few sections of Non-STAA...

But the main point here is that if you changed your truck settings, you would have noticed the Magic in the way it routed you then. You kept them at Default which is 53'/102" which will not route you on a route if sections of it are Non-STAA.

We used to have stone wheels, then wooden wheels, then wheels with hard rubber, now we have wheels with air... It is call progress....

Can you please get over this non-issue you have with Rand from something you had in 2009/2010 on an non-issue that was nothing more than the settings you as the user had left them for your truck parameters...

I really get tired of explaining this over and over to you.

You had a Rand for two weeks quite a few years ago. If you had one now you would notice that the maps have changed and states do remove restrictions. Note the key word.. States.

Please note - the 78 Mile is Non-STAA settings, the 83 Mile is STAA settings, 5 extra miles due to by-passes.

AND YES both of the routes are on AZ-93, from Kingman, AZ to Boulder City, NV. Current maps.

So your non-issue is not an issue and never was.

 

How you set your truck Parameters in Truck Tools/Truck and Preferences/Route will determine by a large part in how the software in combination with the map parameters will route you.

Legally Rand can only go by what the States input in what roads are STAA/Non-STAA/restrictions/No Trucks. Rand does not have any input in this decision making.

The National Highway Act determines what Roads are STAA and usually you can only go one mile off a National Highway with a STAA trailer - 53'102". Now we all know you have to go beyond that, so simply change your trailer to 48'/96" for only the purpose of going/leaving the shipper/consignee and not as a bypass route.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aid_Highway_Act_of_1956