In over my head??

I also have the Rand-McNally truck GPS.
I enter addresses and sometimes it works.
Good point for this is on unfamiliar roads it marks just truck friendly, not shortest routes.
If I'm going to a new location, I turn it on and use both this and my phone.

I have "Google Driving Directions" app added to my phone.
Search for it and add it to your phone.
On the top there is a microphone, push it, and say "Driving directions to ........"
Door to door, easy peasy.
If you don't preface it with "Driving directions to" sometimes it gets stupid.

 

To give you a heads up on personal conveyance, once you deliver, you still beed to be line 3 until you park somewhere like a truck stop, unless you're completely out of hours, then you can use PC.

How long and how far you PC is upto your boss. I have no restrictions on PC from my co, but most aren't like that. They usually have some sort of mileage or time restriction, which can be bs. Im gonna guess your boss has no restrictions set up.

If you're on a 34 and you want to go somewhere to eat or shop, then you use PC. Any time you're not under dispatch or positioning yourself to be closer to a shipper/reciever, you can use PC.

The rules for PC are fairly vague and upto interpretation, by anyone from the driver to law enforcement. Being able to communicate why you used PC a certain instance can go a long way as well.

Maybe I missed it, but what route did you run from Ca to Fl?

 

They can't make it go away, no. They could have moved it to PC or yard move, but even that's a fairly gray area of the law so they may not do it by company policy.

 

I really do not know the law as far as moving forward to find a safe place to park. I do know what direction I would take, if that makes sense.

 

Gee... it’s been months since I did that. I don’t remember? Dispatch wouldn’t give it to me without tanker. Shipper verified my tanker on my license.

 

Take the job!!! You'll get to be an outlaw trucker cuz the company wont care what you do as long as you get the load there on time.

 

There's a really small Flying J in Seffner, FL on I-4 and a T/A across the road with paid parking. It's not really Big, but works. It does fill up though.