Navigation system advice

Yak, I would never use company gps. It remind me of my grandpa trying to pick what to eat at country buffet. Slow and undecided....
Go with RM, it done me good this past year. Sometimes it would freeze, but eta and route usually on point.

 

I would recommend the TND 730 since I've used the 700 series for a while now, with a few caveats. One, the MPH is wrong. ALOT. Don't trust it, or at least verify it. Second, there are some roads that flat out aren't on the GPS that are in their atlases. I don't know wth the deal is there, but some roads that I know have been there a few years already and are on the atlas aren't on the GPS. Just something to be aware of. But I like the layout functionality of the TND, plus the multi-stop trips are a breeze with it. And it does have great POI databases.

Edit: Also, it doesn't always have truck restricted routes in it as restricted. It's pretty good on low clearances and such but always verify with a good atlas before you trust the route the GPS gives you, even a commercial one like the TNDs.

 

I got a RM 530 for about 300 bucks in 2014 and I absolutely regret it. From a hardware standpoint it's a piece of junk...I've taken it back for exchange twice already. I won't bore you with a list of all the ways each one has gone on the fritz. I wouldn't expect any better quality from their pricier models made in the same Chinese factory.
If I had it to do over again I would get the cheapest Garmin truck GPS, I've seen it for 120 bucks or so. I have no idea if they're any good but my expectations would be very low. I'd just want it to function. Remain viable. Charge up. Have a working on off button. Not throw a blank white screen at me 8 times a day.

 

If you buy a Rand McNally Motor Carriers Road Atlas, use Google Maps on your Smartphone and have some good old fashioned common sense, you'll only have spent $29.99.

 

Buy an lg g pad lte or nexus 7 tablet and put copilot for trucks app in there

 

Many companies that are using QC are using the Navigation/GPS Software on the QC Unit.

It's junk you're much better off using something like the Garmin or Rand McNally GPS Units.

 

This is what I've done for the past year and it worked OK, in a straight truck. I dealt with height the same as a big truck but weight I got away with a few times since I was 32k-ish.
Goggle maps did fine finding places but it doesn't have a setting for preferred routes, like highway or commercial vehicle routes.
I had a TomTom and it completely sucked. It told me to turn into a cemetery and drive right through it.
I like what DUNE-T said about a pad. I'm going to look into that as well.
Good luck.