GPS Questions

Having used both the Rand McNally and the Garmin, the RM does a much better job with software, and Garmin is better with hardware. I love my RM because it's simple to use and shows me everything I want to know by glancing at the screen. But the thing is built like a cheap Chinese piece of crap. I've had to replace the power cable 4 times in 3 years and it is sensitive to cold temps. The Garmin is built like a tank, but I'm not a fan of the software and what information is available at a glance. I wish I could download the RM system onto a Garmin unit.

 

OMG, you guys would be lost without your Nav units and trucker's atlas.

Try delivering with a note and a folding map.

 

While you're pulled over reading your map and notes, I'll make sure to honk and say hi.

 

A road atlas lets you see the big picture. Unlike a gps. The only good I have seen for a gps is in a large city.
But if need a gps to go from Jacksonville Florida to LA you might want to change careers.

 

No thanks. Me, my truck, and my gps get along just fine. I think I’m quite happy with my career as it is.

 

Never had to do that, always marked the map, made a note and stuck it to the dash.

There were no complicated places to go to, you got lost, you dealt with it, not bang on the dash and scream that the nav unit routed you down a fire trail.

I know people who use wax pencils and wrote the notes on the lower part of the windshield. I preferred notes.

This was back when you had to have rolls of quarters to call your dispatch or the customer back in the day when Reagan was president.

 

Been there done that got the t-shirt. But I'm much more content and secure having a modern GPS at my immediate disposal.

I had 2 cases both jammed full of paper city maps and a few map books stolen out of a pickup back in the day. That was hard to accept. Was a lot of money to build that "library".