Suggested Atlas software?

Yes, and I'm sure it is dramatically different stats between different sites depending on who the users are.

For truck drivers (January):
XP - 35%
Win7 - 30%
Vista - 23%
Mac - 5.5%
Linix - 3.5%
Phones - 3%

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GPS signal lost - plug in an external antenna and set it up on the dash. VERY rarely ever get the "signal lost" message again.

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Paper maps - always wise to have the MCRA or other maps. But the MCRA doesn't show the city street truck routes. And that's where you get in trouble the most, not on the open highway and the major city arteries.

NYC - If you think you'll ever have to go into NYC, get their truck route map. Every street is identified and which are truck legal. It's free - they'll mail it to you free - up to 100 of them - It's here

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You're right. Electronics is no "substitute" - but it sure does make life easier. Evolution. Ask a driver 30 years ago about his Sirius/XM radio, and his GPS, and his flatscreen TV, and his DVD player, and his electric blanket, and his inverter, and his fridge, and his QualComm, and his cell phone, and his MP3 player, and his microwave, and his coffee pot, and his laptop................

 

BIG thanks.

This is an excellent link

 

Ill stick with my atlas and phone it is easier except when you end up runnin across the feather river pass lol that was a wake up call for me as another driver told me to go that way it was shorter well that wont happen again

 

This thread is amusing to me. As a company driver i would like to get a gps that i can set according to my fuel route. Has anyone found one that is programmable as such? I tend to maps.google.com and drag the route over the one the company sends on the QC. That way i can read the streets names before i have to turn and take a peek see at what the intersections look like to give me a heads up. I have yet to buy a trucking gps. I have a garmin car gps that i use just for the moving map. Any ideas? And before you go saying get an atlas as i'm sure one of you is thinking right now i have one. Im looking for an addition to the tools i already use. Tech is not bad. Dont fear it. Fear the idiots who are unable to use all available sources of information to do what they are supposed to do correctly.

 

The map is a must, I have read... Has more info and will never run out of battery

But a GPS will tell you, "six miles to interstate 94"
Then, "You are an idiot. Why did you miss 94? I told you it was coming up! Now you have to make a U-turn, when safe..."

I plan to use both.

Mikeeee

 

If you are going to manually "drag" the route to match your company's directions then just go with MS Streets 2011. It does all the stuff in your question. It doesn't have truck routes built in, but that shouldn't matter if you are going to program the route yourself (like in your Google example.)

All of the truck units will let you "force" a route by using waypoints, but they don't do the "drag" technology like Google or S&T.

 

Have you even looked in a truckers map? There is info in there that won't be in ANY software.

 

Microsoft S&Trips will tell you before you get to your turn also.

 

Try this link for the laptop software: http://www.globalmap1.com/31/en/4.html