HELP me help him! What GPS do you use?

Get the Rand Mcnally,my son tells me the company supplied GPS is too slow to be usefull.The Rand Mcnally 500 from dieselbear comes with a cool lighted pen and truckstop guide.It's the first GPS designed specificly for and tested by truckers (around $350) shipped to your house.

 

WHAT!?!?!?! I think you mean DieselBOSS





American Trucker

 

Get a smartphone with the built-in GPS, a GPS app, or just use Google Maps, which is free.

 

spoken like a true 4-wheeler/Dispatcher . No driver should be following a gps on a phone Good maps is great for looking at shippers/recievers/truck stops but it wont help you get anywhere.

The rand Mcnally GPS is the only one worth buying. They make our maps, so buy their GPS




American Trucker

 

Hey! I'll have you know my fire trucks have 6-10 wheels! I've always been good with maps to tell you the God's honest truth. I can give my route a once over and typically get there without further issue. Has nothing to do with being a "four wheeler." Good natural sense of direction, combined with having to figure out my way to a call in less than 30 seconds and driving there in 5-10 minutes.

 

The maps on the Rand gps are not Rand maps. Garmin, Rand and a few others all use Navtech maps. And my 465t is still running just fine where my 500, which is newer, is pretty much dying. The 510 is a bit better from playing with it on the display rack, faster anyway. My 500 is sitting up front right now still processing a button that I pushed 5 hours ago. That's how mind numbingly slow it is.

 

i bought my 700 when it came out, and it still works great. I know their not rand maps but they are still extremely accurate.


American Trucker

 

a Motor Carrier Atlas will get you from Exit to Exit, NOT shipper to receiver. Figherfighter just like pizza delivery drivers use STREET map, thus you can find your way. Truck maps do not go to street level for 95% of the country.



American Trucker

 

I have a Rand Mc TND 700 as well as a large print Rand Mc map.. I work them both hand in hand. Can't always trust eletronics.
I do have to say Rand Mc offers quite a bit more options than the others do. Directions to: T/S's, W/S's, T/B's, S/Lines, MM.