So... I got in a 'el stupido' situation today.

Do you have a GPS with the delorme, I just turned Delorme on and used it switched GPS on find address add as final, gps as start (i was somewhere off 20 in AL I believe when I started). I didn't mess with settings.

MS Streets and Trips > Delorme imho, so much easier to learn.

 

K so I turned that crappy program back on and it still had the address from the place we were headed in memphis so here is screen shots of the route which I did this time from Atlanta to Memphis, and it STILL routed me that same way.

 

Yeah, thats the route MS trips took. I have to say I like MS trips way way way way way better, I think its easier to use and easier to read the #### map.

For those of you going, why use it?

Here is a very quick run through of the why.

I can use it in 3 ways. I can use it with GPS route me quick, route me around tolls, and most importantly to rereoute me if the directions my co gave me were wrong on the fly. I can redo its route, tweak it to change roads I know are not truck friendly, and generally it gives me pretty #### accurate on the fly etas.

I can also use it as a map, with no gps. A map with CITY BASED streets that I can ZOOM TO HUGE at any time. It has pretty much every street in every city/town/etc in america, give or take a few. So if the company directions are wrong, OR there is bad traffic I can quickly look around and route around it. Its far superior to ANY printed map in that regard.

It does NOT list non truck routes.
It does NOT list weight limits.
It does NOT list low bridges.

There is a program addition you can buy that will add truckstops, weighstations, and some low clearances but I don't like it as its not overly accurate.

In a situation where your company directions make no sense you can zoom to the address by searching the address and checking the directions yourself before getting out there. If you are dumb, like my husband, and chose to wait till you get there to discover that the company directions make no sense (like that time we had to deliver in Des Moines, to a USPS facility on Third Street) then your co driver or yourself can look at the street level directions and find a way to get back to where the delivery/pickup is >.>

 

Don't like it at all, I didn't use it when I first bought it because I hate the way the map looks, its confusing and hard to read to me. i do like the sat detail pictures (you can buy them for all over though they take forever to download) though, but I really don't like the way it looks, still haven't figured out all the settings. I do think it is neat it is able to be voice controlled. I liked the auto reroute feature. I like the date/time version of an eta instead of the hours version on MS then it took me on this little detour, so I am never using it again. Ever.

So anyone wanna buy a slightly used Delorme software? LOL Jk

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