Rand Mcnally TND 720 Please post experiences

Good day all. Hope your paths to your destinations are safe and profitable.

I would like to ask, what are your experiences with the TND 720 unit

I have one I purchased at the beginning of the year. I basically got it for free. I used my points from Pilot and made the commitment. I had a Garmin (don't remember the model, wasn't a truckers GPS) and initially I had problems with it, but, that was because of how I setup. Anyway... Since owning my TND, I like the features of the larger screen, fuel tracking, different settings arrival times.

The problem I am having with the unit is routing. One of the items I've noticed is if I place a route to the TA in Ontario, California, From the North East, I get a route that takes me down I-15 to I-10 west. From this point, the GPS instead of taking me basically 1/2 mile to get off at Milken street exit, it takes me several miles to the West and then doubles back and then takes me to the exit. Another item I have noticed is the GPS avoids HWy 80 when traveling from Salt Lake City to Sacramento, The unit wants to route to HWY 93 to HWY 50. then back onto 80. When I have performed (Newly feature) route comparison, I still get routes that don't include Hwy 80 (same example of Utah to Sacramento)

Has anyone had these issues??

I've sent several messages to Rand mcnally about this little issue and it seemed the last update about 2 weeks ago fixed the problem, but, it seems like it's back i a worse way.

Let me knwo what you think


Thanks

 

No doubt. I hear ya. I tend to drive by experience. (Not alot, but for where I go, these items are generally the same. I noticed when I changed recently to shortest vs Fastest, I got different results which started out to be promising, but, then things seemed to turn for the worse. Routes really started to get wierd where Utah to California too 1,700 miles when comparing the route. I-80 straight across should be the ticket, but, this thing was creating routes through Oregon and was litterally 700 miles out of the way. (some crazy amount of miles out of route)

Silly things like skipping an exit to double back is something I find crazy. Especially where there are no construction issues or hazmat issues or road changes.

I like the unit, but, I'm almost alittle scare when it comes to going places I have never been.

Still, the trusty old paper map gets me pretty close to the customer and the old phone call to the customer gets me the rest of teh way.

 

REALLY????
You mean to tell me all I had to do was prefer freeways?????


Gees. I asked and asked and asked by sending messages to Rand Mcnally adn I never got a response to this.

I tried to prefer highways and the route works.

Man.. That was a quick fix.

Now, i wonder what the draw back will be for this setting???

LOL..


Mark, thanks much for the suggestion/fix.

I appreciate it.

 

Well, I have to say, the fix I just received, fixed my issue, but, I did some further testing and found that I80 in utah to the west for some reason, get avoided. I I tried to get an alternate route to Ontario, CA and the GPS would not go to I80 to I5 in CA or I80 to US395 in Nevada or I80 to US93 in Nevada. The GPS Now routes about 1000 miles out of route. I'm talking I15n to I84w to I5s to I10e all to get to Ontario,Ca which is about 650 miles from here..

Crazy