Truck gps

Bonus points for unfiltered. I came into the scene professionally when cell phones were still sorta...clammy, but they were there. Prior to that, I rode with my father, looking back, that payphone was his check writer, as he said.

 

The only rm that I own is the 8 inch tablet..it's only a tool..use common sense along with it.
I set it up on the passenger seat and use a small car GPS on the window..don't want any tickets.

 

Sorry but I cannot help you there. I have seen the hazmat option buttons on the thing but never messed with them. For the last four years I have been throwing tires out the back of a trailer.

I do like the rest of the thing though. Had a rand mcnally that got fried so I replaced it with the dezlcam if I break this one too then I will be replacing it with the exact same thing.

The video camera on the thing is easy to use. Never could figure out how to work the gopro camera I had but this thing is a piece of cake. Automaticly starts recording whenever you got the gps turned on and will save a three minutes period of time at the touch of a button.

 

It was, and it was nice when you wanted to take a few days off too. Back to the GPS, the Garmin is like using Google Maps. Incredibly quick, punch in going down the road if you have to and gets the job done. I have had my 770 since it was launched. It is not perfect in the least, but from my experience with the Rand offering, and drivers knocking on my door asking me if I knew how to use one... That says it all to me. I have played with the Rand units, no manual, but a Garmin is intuitive, I do not need to be a rocket scientist to use one, and yes, I have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express.

 

The GPS units still need you to use common sense. I use Google far more than my Garmin, even though I enter my addresses in both, the Traffic feature on the Garmin is worth the entry fee alone in my book. Garmin will get me there, but Google and a little common sense saves me money when it shows me all of the alternative routes. That is where Google shines. Want to know where the scale house is, Rand paper Atlas. The Garmin is easy to use and very user friendly, and it has a built in speedometer, and that is its primary use in my truck.

 

I've used a Rand and don't care to ever again. Garbage. I relied more on googlemaps than the Rand and GM has serious problems too.

 

I like my Garmin. It has never tried to send me under a low underpass, but it has tried to get me to turn up a pig path or two through a cow pasture bit wide enough for a golf cart.
You have to use your brain.
Thus one of mine completely eliminates i64 between i77 and i81 because of a low underpass OFF of an exit about halfway between the two.
Another place it tries to send me 200 miles out of route bc of NO TRUCKS.. but it's only a NO TRUCK rest area beside the road along the route.
I knew better bc I checked the atlas.

They all have quirks.

 

I beg to differ on this. The RM will not warn you, but it will not route you.

If the low clearance is in the map database no matter where then it will not route you under it. You have to understand restrictions are missing even in this day and age. If you feel one is missing let me know and RM will research it.

In car mode if routed and will not route in truck then it is a truck restriction.

If it will not route in car mode then a map issue.

I have worked with all models and versions since 2008. If you have a question on its use ask me.

 

You sure about that? I was using the 720 and I can remember on several occasions hearing the "Vertical height violation" warning blaring at me.