Trucker GPS for Android

Funny how people can have different experiences with something. I find Copilot hilariously bad. It routinely tries to route me a stupid way because it believes a road is shutdown or illegal when it’s not. It’s tried to route me down a road that wasn’t built, it’s tried to route me 130 miles out of the way. The latter example being so bad I’ll never forget it. I’m going up I81 in VA headed to PA, it tries to route me east on I64 over to Richmond, up I95 around the beltway to 270 and then 70 back to I81 in Hagerstown. I cant even make that up. I stay on I81 past the I64 exit and watch the route flip to the correct one minus 130 miles.
The other day it tried to route me through Upper Sandusky because it thought a portion of Hwy 30 around it was a restricted road. It’s tried to route me down residential roads with big ### no truck signs on em. I could go on. Thank goodness I know enough to not rely on it. I’d take the Omnitracs nav back in a heartbeat and that’s saying something.

 

Reading this thread brings smile to me, remembering driving based off of an atlas and written directions across the states. Now days all I'm using is Google maps and common sense, which is avoiding Google's "turn here and go through the field or residential area" and watching "No trucks" and "Truck route" signs. It works 99.9% of the time, if I don't mind going extra miles around the "shortcuts". Stick to the big roads, you'll be fine.

 

I still have CoPilot Live on company tablet because company pays for it. Like other post did it thinks part of US-30 by Upper Sandusky OH is not truck route. My biggest complaint with CoPilot is the addresses are alway off by maybe 1/2 miles. It’s not even close sometimes. I did like the live traffic update it had and actually navigation when driving. I used to look on Google maps to find the actual Custer and truck entrance.

I like Trucker path just because it has the correct address and truck entrance and it shows you on screen if you have satellite view what it has as truck entrance. It’s not perfect for routing 100% and it all in the cloud/internet. So you need good cellphones internet data coverage to work. That’s why I say try the 7 day free trial or pay for 1 month at $9.99 before buying a 1 year plan.

They say Garmin truck GPS are good but at $800+ I can get 8 years of Trucker Path GPS plus the truck stop parking info. Rand McNally GPS had terrible hardware problems of unit’s going bad. I went away from buying a stand alone unit.

 

The Garmin & RM truck GPS 7 inch cost about $450. The tablets that do everything including GPS are maybe $800 or more. I would never get a all-in-one or do everything device.

 

I always used a garmin for routing but I never relied on it. I always double checked my route through apps, and also maps with real time pictures for receivers and shippers if I was going some where new. Then I would also go through my truckers atlas map and check routes for low bridges especially around good ol CHICAGO or anywhere in the NE. Never use your phone gps you'll end up on a bike route like once of these steering wheel holders, or even worse side of a mountain.

 

But,

I like a good challenge.....!

 

With social media there are some really terrible scenarios. Makes you chuckle and think, how?! LOL