Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

53' trailers are not legal in NYC or 4 of the 5 bouroghs. The only legal route is 95 from Westchester/Bronx to 695 to 295 over Throgs Neck to 495.

 

Truck route map does not mean 53 footers are legal. Look at size and weight restrictions.

 

Mark have the 720 and has worked pretty good since got it last year. But recently have had problem with acquiring satellites. Especially in the southern states. Seems this started after doing the last updates. Maybe this is just a matter of timing don't know. It sometimes takes as long as a hundred miles to find them.

It will show seeing them but only uses maybe one or two. It is sitting the same place since got it. On the dash. I have tried holding outside and completely away from truck. No matter where I put it takes forever to locate signal. Nothing as changed in truck since I purchased the unit.

I have since problem started placed a cheap GPS along side of it and it acquires signal within seconds. It seems if I don't turn unit off at night works ok. But when driving thru MS, LA, AL it will loose it for a while then come back later.

Garry

might add just to cover all bases I did order an external antenna for it but haven't gotten home to get it yet.

 

Interesting issue.... the 720 apparently inserts route changes at the spur of the moment. Example, routed Indianapolis to Dallas via Little Rock. At Little Rock, the route ran I40-I30. However, as I approched I440, the device inserted I440 into the route and posted a segment change onto I440. This segment was not part of tbe orginal routing calculation. I've seen this before but really didn't take much notice of it except in passing.

Mark

 

I disabled the Hills and Sharp Curve warnings.
But I am still getting Curve Warnings.
Wouldn't be bad if they were actuallyvSharp Curves