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ghostrunner59 · Jul 4, 2012

Hope everyone is having a good 4th. Happy Birthday to America

Mark Kling · Jul 5, 2012

TND-720 and the Traffic Receiver - For those that have a TND-720 and use the traffic receiver - under the Main Screen/Preferences/General/Real Time Traffic Settings - make sure you have it set to one of the following - Flow Only, Incidents Only, or Flow and Incidents. Do not press the "Turn Traffic On" button. This will turn off the Traffic Receiver.

This is on Version 12.4.2364.

Rand is aware of this and it has been corrected in the next version.

Thanks,
Mark

sweetbone38 · Jul 5, 2012

Rand now thatball companies require u to write down mileage before crossin states wouldnt it be great if McNally would have a feagure where u put ure original tractor mileage and it would be recording what mileage u had wen u enter a certain state......tku Gus

Mark Kling · Jul 5, 2012

sweetbone38 said: ↑

Rand now thatball companies require u to write down mileage before crossin states wouldnt it be great if McNally would have a feagure where u put ure original tractor mileage and it would be recording what mileage u had wen u enter a certain state......tku Gus
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You can change the Odometers by tapping on them and entering your tractor mileage. I know what you are saying and it is on the feature list.

Thanks,
Mark

jmroadhog · Jul 5, 2012

Mark

Any comments on the function or disfunction with the speed warning program.

Thanks
John

Mark Kling · Jul 5, 2012

jmroadhog said: ↑

Just took my new 720&Samantha-lol, for a trip to LA and back.I'm very impressed,GOOD JOB RAND. However there were a few kinks in the system re: speed limits and routing onto truck restricted roads but the Tell Rand function was easy to use and hope these errors will be rectified in the future.
Now for my main beefs.
The internal speaker on my unit is CRAP, its distorted and tinny could hardly make out the instructions,seems as the audio program was overpowering it. On the second day the audio actually quit working but came back after a reset. At the next truck stop I bought a set of external self powered speakers called Tweakers,set them up.velcroed them to the dash and they much improved the sound. My 700 has a great speaker and never needed external ones.Maybe I just got a bad one,if rand could send me another speaker I could prob change it out myself.

This was fixed with an RMA.

Now for my main problem, "Speed Warning Function",was present on my 700 also and I hoped they fixed this on the new one, but notso.
This only is a problem in States that have seperate speed limits for cars and trucks like WA,OR,CA. As I do a lot of work in these 3 states I would much appreciate a fix for this. WA. trucks max 60 cars higher. OR. CA. trucks 55 cars up to 70mph.
On the Interstates you get the orange truck icon and if you go faster than your set speed the ball turns red BUT NO AUDIO WARNING. On any other highway you get no speed warning whatsoever as you have to go over the car speed limit to get any warning at all.
In towns and cities the speed warning works as it should as the speed limits there are the same for car and truck. For a TRUCK GPS, this is a terrible way to do things.
A simple sullution would be for a seperate function whereby you can put in your own speed limit warning and get both voice and visual if you go over that so you could use that function on any road or highway where you don't get the orange truck speed icon. At the least you should get an audio warning everytime the ball turns red.
This issue is important to me and have told Rand several times through Tell Rand on the dock but to no avail. Is this important,you be the judge, one of my Co-drivers was stopped on I-5 in CA.at 62mph, truck limit 55mph,car 70mph. Cost him $450.00 fine.

That sounds like a great idea. I know the maps are not totally correct in all segments of each road for the truck speeds if one is there.

So anyone going into CA be aware,big speed fines as they are broke and need the $$$$$$$, and who are the easiest to target,Truckers.

Hope this doesn't fall on deaf ears.

Never on deaf ears on TTR.

Thanks
John
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Thanks,
Mark

Mark Kling · Jul 5, 2012

jmroadhog said: ↑

Mark

Any comments on the function or disfunction with the speed warning program.

Thanks
John
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Thanks for reminding me... I was about 10 minutes away from replying to your post. I got swamped with some other issues the past few days.

Thanks,
Mark

jmroadhog · Jul 5, 2012

cc194217 said: ↑

Thanks for reminding me... I was about 10 minutes away from replying to your post. I got swamped with some other issues the past few days.

Thanks,
Mark
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Not a problem, I know you get lots of questions just here in the forum and you still need a private life. Just for rand's info-In CA-US 395 and US 14,major truck routes,truck icon comes on once in a while but only for short stretches then reverts to car speed limit which is 65mph. All highways in CA are truck 55mph,no exceptions so in my way of thinking the truck speed icon should be displayed on any highway in CA where the car speed is greater than 55mph. Same for Oregon.

Thanks
John

Mark Kling · Jul 5, 2012

jmroadhog said: ↑

Not a problem, I know you get lots of questions just here in the forum and you still need a private life. Just for rand's info-In CA-US 395 and US 14,major truck routes,truck icon comes on once in a while but only for short stretches then reverts to car speed limit which is 65mph. All highways in CA are truck 55mph,no exceptions so in my way of thinking the truck speed icon should be displayed on any highway in CA where the car speed is greater than 55mph. Same for Oregon.

Thanks
John
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In the map database there is a spot for car and truck speeds. This is what the code draws off of. It is not 100% perfect. You can change under Truck Info/Warnings/Speed Limit Alert - none, truck only, show car if no truck.

Thanks,
mark

jmroadhog · Jul 5, 2012

cc194217 said: ↑

In the map database there is a spot for car and truck speeds. This is what the code draws off of. It is not 100% perfect. You can change under Truck Info/Warnings/Speed Limit Alert - none, truck only, show car if no truck.

Thanks,
mark
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Yes I'm aware of these settings but doesn't solve the problem, have tried changing the settings but same outcome as previously mentioned.

John

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