Rand McNally intelliRoute TND 500

You can sort of do that. Not like a movie however. Enter your starting address, then hit "set as origin". Then enter the address you want to go to. The GPS will now show you the complete route. It will not run as a movie but you can see all the turns and stuff.

My three favorite features are ...

The one mentioned above.

The detour feature

The avoid feature to permanently make a road as a road I do not want to go on.

 

If anyone has this working with a Macbook running Snow Leopard and VMWare Fusion 3.0, please PM me, or post here. I know the Macbook/VMware inside and out and don't see what I might be missing...this should work.

I have tried everything I can think of, but I cannot get this to work under that scenario.
I do have an IBM notebook and I had no issues connecting it there, so I know my TND is in good working order. So far, the only way I have been able to work with it with the Macbook is via SDRAM flash.

WTF

 

Back in the office now after leaving for a week (girlfriend insisted that we get married after all these years - go figure) and see that this thread is as lively as ever. Got a couple of comments based on the last few pages of getting caught up.

Karl -

- "Status of current GPS technology." You are correct - the technology DOES NOT exist for any GPS to make real-time map corrections as they happen. There is no "central depository" in existence whereby a DOT or highway administration can immediately feed into when a road is finished, exit number changed, etc, and then all GPS units get fed that change on the fly. In fact, I doubt that ability will ever exist because it will be subject to government beaurocracies providing it in a 100% accurate and timely manner. This is why GPS map providers (technology dominated by NavTeq and Tele Atlas corporations) are a multi-million dollar business. So therefore to extend that fact logically, no GPS (car or truck) is, or likely ever will be, "100% accurate."

- "My stake" in this thread (and any other.) I started my company in 1999 with my OTR truck driver father in order to attempt to get his aging bones off the road after driving for more than 30 years. He is now 67 and is at our warehouse very happily packing boxes and drinking coffee with drivers who stop in every day. Mission successful. When he was on the road, we attempted constantly to "outfit" his rig with whatever device, gadget, TV, CB, refrigerator, microwave, radio, pillow, laptop, mirror, mattress, APU, any anything else, right down to his "lot lizard" deterrent stickers, to make his life easier. From "living the life," we realized that we could provide this same service to all drivers by continuing to test these things and pay the bills by endorsing and selling those products that actually DID make life easier "in the cab" as it were. We believe the TND to be one such product and also in the Rand company as a whole after having been conversing with them concerning feedback on this device. My "stake" is in providing as accurate of info as I can to the drivers. If the TND fell apart as a product tomorrow, we would continue to provide the comparison with the others, but drop it from sales - albeit sadly given the potential of this unit.

- Pertaining to GPS's claiming to be truck-specific (which are actually in their infancy as a technology-sector right now) we have tested Garmin, PC Miler, Rand McNally, Cobra, Goodyear, WorldNav, and Co-Pilot Truck for laptops. Additionally we keep any eye on the Delorme Street Atlas and Microsoft Streets programs for laptops as they both have merits for laptop users, though without built-in truck specifics at this time. I can sell ANY of these products if I so desire, but do not. At this time, we only sell the ALK (PC Miler and CoPilot) and the Rand McNally units based on the aforementioned test results. If Magellan comes out with one tomorrow that at least equals these two, then it'll show up too. However, these actually are far better than non-truck gps's at providing legal truck routes (and this statement pertains to the Garmin 465T also,) and I predict that 2010 will only bring more substantial improvements as they mature.

- What's unique about this thread is that so many drivers have the ability to converse directly with the manufacturer basically real-time about it. Pretty cool in that respect as well.

 

"The scales at Corbin, Ky do not show. I reported it to Rand."

The problem was the wrong Lat/Long for those scales. The next POI update will have this corrected.

Thanks
Mark

 

http://electronics.pricegrabber.com...m_keyword=trucker+7200/st=query/sv=search_top

 

This site lists only common shopping stores... does not show truck stops.

The TND 500 cannot be bought at Best Buy, Staples, etc, etc..

Thanks,
Mark

 

Pilot has the units for $399.00 The product tag says this is a new lower price, not a sale price.

Thats a $100.00 off the list price.


Petro has the units for $449.00 Product display tag says for a limited time, but had no experation date on the "special price"

This kinda sucks. When I purchased my unit, the price was $499.99

 

...just confirmed. PILOT has these on sale for $399. Sale started 12.29.09 - even the counter chic (HOT CHIC!) didn't
know about the sale and it wasn't in the computer.

 

####....
I want a 100 dollar voucher....

 

I'm sure it will go down again, like anything electronic. And then the bunch of guys that paid $399 will feel the same way...

Jamestown? - I grew up in Buffalo...left in 1994.