Recommend me a GPS

Find a newer garmin with an LM in the model number. LM denotes lifetime updates.. LMT is lifetime maps and traffic..

 

rand McNally binded with laminated pages,dont get better then that

 

i have been happy with garmin. would by a gps that is for trucks. that way you can put your trucks profile in it.

 

Guess you missed where he said he was gonna be a cabbie. I have noticed my Atlas missed a few streets.

 

I dont know car ones with big screens but my rand mc has a 7 inch and has a car mode.

 

For a cabbie?
Any Garmin or Rand would be fine. They are all similar.

Just know...LMT (lifetime Maps) is the products intended lifetime. Not your lifetime.
Most of that means 2-3 yrs at best for free maps until the unit is EOL/discontinued.

Many guys get that confused.

 

or tom tom or nuvi or anything basically.

 

My Garmin C330's are EOL.. And I still get updates for both of them.

 

Indeed. For the moment.....If they updates are paid, that makes sense.
If they are "free" - they could be discontinued at any time.

Just know that once a product is EOL, there is no more guarantee of LMT.
I'm just trying to point out that lifetime doesnt mean your lifetime.

I lost map updates on my TND 5 that I bought in 12/2009 - about a year ago or so.
They changed the hardware on the new models and then the software and basically obsoleted my TND5
very quickly. Since the new maps need the new software and the new software cant run on 2nd generation hardware - it only gets construction updates now. Nothing more.

I was and still am upset about that, since I dont need all of the fluff that the new models come with.
But being forced out of map updates and being required to purchase a new unit to get new updates
was a big let down. Less than 3 yrs before EOL.