Just bought and tried the Nuvi 465T

Now I don’t want to get in a pissing contest with you, but I promise you I can plan a route much faster than you can. In any event, if I was a delivery driver, I would pushpin the exact locations of all the stops that I have ever made, use avoid area rectangles judiciously to ensure that Streets & Trips only routes me via designated truck routes no matter where I’m coming from, and then save them in my template. Thus, while you would be busy entering the addresses for each of your destinations. I would just have to right click them, click add to route, and then right click again and click get directions, and I would be ready to go. Meanwhile, you would still be entering the addresses.

Not to mention that if I knew all my stops I was going to drive to before hand, then I could just right click all of them in no particular order, click optimize stops, and click get directions, and my route to all my stops would be calculated in the most efficient way. Plus I would not have to worry about being routed down roads with low clearances, restricted routes, or low weigh bridges because of all the avoid area rectangles I would have already previously saved into my template

Yeah…I was talking to over the road truck drivers and not delivery drivers, which should have been rather obvious to everyone or so I thought.

 

I used to try downloading and installing POIs from POI factory. However, they were never close to being accurate.

 

Back to the 465T... I left a warehouse going a completely different way than the GPS was routed. It kept rebooting over and over until I stopped the navigation. I was trying to follow the blue trail back to the hwy and then route myself from a nearby reststop for my next load.

I already did all the updates on this unit over a month ago and even checked to see if any new updates have been added since (none).

I think it's a good unit, but the rush to release this GPS has tarnished Garmin a bit. It also does some odd routing as well. I definitely use QC and the atlas along with the 465T, which is what you should do. I hope Garmin cranks out some more updates and gets this unit performing like a Garmin should.

 

It does have a lot of bugs in it yet. If you're just following the trail out, kill the navigation. I've only had it reboot once when it wasn't navigating and that was before the update.

 

Could you tell me what the PCM Navigator is? I can't seem to find any reference to it here on the board or via a Google search.

Thanks
John

I figured it out! Sorry for the brain fade.

 

Just installed the second update (2.70) and driven about 500 miles, no issues so far..

 

Got the second update on mine. It started that recalculating while still on the route after I installed the update. The MLK bridge route too. It used to run me up 255 or 55, now it insists I pass those up for that bridge you can't get to.

 

I just got my Garmin this week 465T

Is there any way to increase the notification distance for scales? At this point its only 4-5 miles. this is a bit short if I need to get off a exit ramp

Thanks

 

Well it's good to see i'm not the only one with this problem. the garmin 465t really sucks! iI had the same problem on i-95. thats something it should of picked up. ($3,000) fine.as a matter of fact it happends on almost every bridge in that area (RI). on mine every route is a none truck route. there's a little symbol lower right hand corner that tell you this. if you drive in new england you know that I-91 is a truck route. but the gps says that it isnt. there's been plenty of time's when i had to reboot and wait for it recaculate. bottom line is the 465t is not the gps for a trucker. it's a great exspensive car one. TOM TOM really needs to come out with one. i'm looking to buy a pc miller myself . If anyone has any idea on how much better it is please let me know. and also if some needs a garmin 465t please contact me!!!!!