A Co-Pilot Live (Droid) Review.

I've been an avid user of Co-Pilot for about 12 years now. At the present time I have it installed on my Android 10.1 in tablet. If you can imagine a 10 inch screen to see your navigation with. You can go to a web site called dhgate.com. Search Flytouch3 and check them out. The price is right and they have all the needed hard ware to make it work as an on dash set up. The windshield mount is awsome. You can then downlod the Co Piot app from the App store. You can spring for the truck app which is the best there is and dead on accurate for trucks or get the loower cost Non truck app for $29.95 and use it in RV mode set for 13ft clearance. That way it will take you mostly on the truck routes..

 

You can run the non truck app in RV mode with the bigest sizes allowed it the settings and it will taake you on the truck routes. Set hight at 13 feet.

 

Sort-of.

It will look for routes that don't violate that 13' height setting for an RV, but it will NOT pay attention to roads that say "no trucks" or "no commercial vehicles" or hazmat routing, or STAA-legal routing.

In general, if you have it in RV mode and tell it to "favor" Freeways and to "strongly avoid" Local Streets, then most of your general routing would be the same as a truck would use. However, when you are driving around in the city to do a delivery, it will not know the difference between a road that you are allowed to take an RV down verses that same road that has no trucks allowed.

 

The truck version still fails for haz-mat in Colorado. If you haul a placard load, still check the atlas and permits for routing.

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Really? If you could provide me a start point, end point, and what kind of hazmat fail it does in that route there, I (and other drivers) would appreciate it. We can fix that in 45 days or less using the Mapsure program link.

Thanks!

 

From the east, it has used 160 and 96. From the north, 287south of laramie. Those roads are off limits to hm

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Depends on $$ in part....
But also remember, the stuff you buy, the more can get stolen...
I find the screen size of my DROID x, to be as small as I would want...
but you must make sure the mounting location has suffucent view of the sky...some gps's have separate antantas...but in a fiberglass freighliner, no issues....
less stuff also equals less clutter..

But you loose gps functionality when you are chatting on the phone....so are you a big talker....might change your mind...
Also be sure to install/download the maps for the full us....if you choose a region....and need to add a state...you need a laptop/wifi to download...
So do it once...and never have to be bothered again.
Some folks love huge 5-7 inch gps screens....I find them distracting...cluttering, and

 

PS
No one tool is best...they all have limits...you will learn the strengths/weakness of each through trial and error, and utilize them to your advantage.
Google maps are great for aerial views of shippers parking lots...routing is pretty piss poor....paper maps never go on the fritz....phone gps usually has traffic info to avoid backups......all are great/bad in their own ways.