Unsafe GPS Truck Route Garmin Dezl

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Labrador, Dec 8, 2023.

  1. Labrador

    Labrador Medium Load Member

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    It asks me to pick a profile, shows a picture of a semi van combination vehicle with the default dimensions and weight. I pick that
     
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  3. JSanborn103

    JSanborn103 Medium Load Member

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    Only twice? You mustve only used it twice since buying it. Its a $400 paperweight. I just use google maps and check the roads on satellite. The garmin dezl is absolute crap. It doesnt matter how many times you update it or check the settings, it will always route you the worst possible way.
     
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  4. Knightcrawler

    Knightcrawler Road Train Member

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    About 10 years ago I was running line haul for Estes. At times I would get in early and city dispatch would send me out to pick up a trailer. They would give me a hard copy printed from MapQuest. Usually down non-truck routes. You would think that the guys that dispatch for the CITY would at least look at the map and say "oops, cant do that", but nope.

    Theres a reason they call empty trailers a "full load of dispatchers brains". Why would you think a GPS would be better?
     
  5. lual

    lual Road Train Member

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    As a fuel hauler in north Florida, south Georgia....and Alabama....I have used "them all": the Rand McNally Trucker's Atlas, a Garmin Dezl GPS, Google Maps & its street/satellite views, & also TruckerPath -- with (as you would expect) excellent results.

    Since fuel offers a fairly narrow margin for error :eek: -- I felt quite justified in doing such.

    Each of the above brings some neat advantages to the hunt -- so I used them all (as appropriate)....without any hesitation.
    :D

    "Don't you just love it when a plan comes together" ;)

    -- L
     
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  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    The state info from the motor carrier atlas is more reliable. The GPS is more thorough. No atlas has street-level info everywhere. The GPS has street-level info virtually every inch of the US. Most of it is accurate. It took me several months AFTER YEARS of pre-GPS experience to integrate the GPS with my experienced trucking. The first few weeks, I was picking a route off the atlas and then getting the GPS to tag along and occasionally asking it to give directions by entering a small city beyond where I needed to travel on the road I was already driving on. Once I saw what mistakes it was making AND how I could tell the GPS what I wanted to happen, I turned over more of my picking ad choosing to the GPS.

    I think that with so much of the industry being occupied with VERY recent students, and almost all of them 100% dependent on Google, they are in a bad condition to supervise or professionally use a GPS. The bad situations are self-induced AND GPS directed. They don't know what they don't know and blame the GPS.
     
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  7. Labrador

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    I dunno know I assume since it is 2023, we have Space X, computers, AI...that a trucking GPS would have reliable up to date information.
     
  8. Knightcrawler

    Knightcrawler Road Train Member

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    Gee officer, my GPS said I could use this road, and its the most up to date...... :cool:

    Thank you for the ticket officer, have a nice day.

    a ss u me
     
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  9. Phoenix Heavy Haul

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    I don’t even own a GPS or an Atlas ..heck I didn’t even know they still made them. I’ve been using google maps and common sense for almost 10 years.
    But ima buy me an Atlas now that I know they have em, I could definitely see the benefit of having it.
     
  10. Assured

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    New theory for random truckstop conversing: Your GPS is not ignorant about low bridges - it had its software replaced with one of those fancy new "AI" systems which operate by rehashing identifiable patterns in text downloaded off the Internet, and therefore thinks you might be a steering-wheel holder with a load of explosives, and that you might take out the bridge if routed under it - potentially resulting in substantially improved outcomes in the future when selecting paths through the area.
     
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  11. Labrador

    Labrador Medium Load Member

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    I dunno I still can't get over the fact that we can't trust pro grade trucker GPS units. wtf. The bridges it tried to route me under probably have been there for 50 years. Google can track every one of us to the nearest edge but Garmin can't find all the bridges in the US?
     
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