Thinking About Buying a Rand McNally TND 730 - SAVE YOUR MONEY!

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Found a terminal with Wi-Fi and I've pulled up the attachment even on my laptop, where the photo is not saved.... Not understanding why it won't show for you Mark.

 

Thanks..... One more try......

 

For all those who have awaited with bated breath.... Ver 3450 is out now. This should resolve the issue with the Junction Views and split screen views.

Thanks,
mark

 

Anyone have a problem with no gps signal? Both my tnd 730 and my Qualcomm have not had signal at all today in Indiana heading twards michigan

 

Qualcomm has been off and in all day today.... RM has been okay though

 

I figured it out. Idk but the qcomm Cuz that came on before I unplugged it but I bought a fm transmitter for my sattilte radio Cuz the truck radio has no aux input and after some playing around I realized the fm transmitter was interfering with the rand mcnally gps signal making it go crazy or just not receive signal at all.

 

I did that for years, but it always failed me regularly because I kept getting females who didn’t know their north from their south or their east from the west. Also got a hold of a lot of Hispanics that could only speak broken English. Didn’t matter though, because I couldn’t understand a word they were saying anyway. Plus none of them had ever ridden in, much less driven an 18 wheeler. It sounded like a good theory initially, but in actual practice it hardly ever worked.

Then in 2006 I switched to using a GPS and haven’t looked back ever since, as it has made my life so much easier. Especially on those cold winter nights when it is snowing so hard you can’t even see the road much less see the road signs.

Meanwhile, through the years the supporting technology has steadily improved making my life easier and easier as the years flew by. As a matter of fact, I haven’t had a motor carrier road atlas in my truck for over 5 years now.

What specifically have I been using? Streets & Trips together with the Truck Stops Plus template. However, they both have been discontinued. Too bad because they were both excellent tools so I will have to make the jump to one of those super expensive GPS units in the near future, but everything I read indicates that they also come along with a host of problems that I had never experienced with Streets & Trips. Thus, whatever I end up going with will be used as my secondary GPS, at least until the maps in Streets & Trips eventually cease to be useful.

The beauty of Streets & Trips is I can geocode the driver entranceway of all my shippers and receivers and then permanently save them. Thus, Streets & Trips gives me perfect turn by turn voice guided directions directly into my shippers and receivers, and when I have to eventually go back there again, it’s already geocoded in. I also have all my terminals and drop lots geocoded in as well.

Plus, Streets & Trips is super flexible as I can make it take or not take any route or road I want it to. In fact, I still plan to use it as my primary routing tool even though allegedly it isn’t truck specific. In reality, if you know how to use it, it is actually much better at truck routing than any of the expensive GPS units.

Wish someone like Google would buy Streets & Trips from Microsoft. Anyway, trying to determine which GPS unit to buy, but I have to admit I don’t like what I’m reading.

That’s funny. When I used to use one years ago, all they had were major roads. The roads my shippers and receivers inevitably were on most of the time were never in the road atlas. So I was dependent on convoluted company directions written by illiterate truck drivers or restricted to calling the shippers and receivers to talk to females who didn’t have a clue or Hispanics who didn’t have a clue and that I couldn’t understand in any event.

Plus, those road atlases never told me how many miles I had to drive to my final or how many miles to my next stop. Not to mention that with Streets & Trips and the Truck Stops Plus template I can see all the truck stops, rest areas, parking areas, turnpike service plazas, weigh stations, Wal-Marts, etc., etc., etc. right on the map as I drive. Funny, for some reason my road atlases never could do that.

I can also check mileage from any point A to any point B in a matter of seconds. Never have to pull out a calculator and a magnifying glass to figure that out either. You ought to try it some time, it’s pretty cool. Do you also plan your trips with your road atlas under a coal-oil lantern or do you actually utilize your trucks batteries by turning on the lights?

 

LOL. Actually Mark has been a big help.

 

I am still having that application error on my 720 and 730...2 days after doing a dock-repair..they lock up again..I have a garmin 770 now...not crazy about it..but after 2 months...not one problem..go figure..

 

I would like to see your Navi/Logs. Post one more time and PM me.

Mark