when does a gps cost $1000?

Those $600 trucker specific GPS are not that great from what I've seen. I have a $300 Garmin 530 and it was a lot better than the GPS than the one my student brought with. He had the one Pilot sells for $600. He said he got it through his CDL school for $300. It kept telling us to get off the interstate and take these side roads, some were not even legal truck routes. This is coming from a truck GPS. Anyways, like stated before a GPS is just a tool. You still have to trip plan and check against the map for legal roads. It is nice to have an exact ETA, exact distance away from destination, and be able to see what road is coming up next in the dark. This is why I use one and will continue to do so. In the last ten years cell phones are probably the biggest tech improvement in trucking, GPS is number two. I no longer find myself struggling to find places at night. No matter how many maps you have I doubt anyone has a street map for every single city. If you have a GPS and know how to use it you do.

 

Love that saying, work smarter not harder or my favorite of all times, "keep it simple, stupid" know as KISS

 

Thats why you call the shipper/receiver for directions. I want the easiest route in, the one all the trucks that go to a certain place takes. a GPS will either route you the quickest direction or the shortest direction. I want the easiest way in.

 

Forum members here, have been warned several times about the Trace in my post.

$1000, seems cheap. They get $1500 and more on this end, N MS.

I meet these GPS clowns every day. I use one, but I read the signs as well.

I have noticed that they have started posting signs sooner, and larger. So I suspect there is about to be a major ripping handed out. We're averaging 5 or more trucks per day on this end. Jumping on at Hwy 82, and taking it as far north as TN.

I don't mind calling in on them at all.

 

What is the Natchez Trace, is it a scenic mountaintop road with pulloffs like that parkway in Virginia?

 

There was no need to bother the shipper with a useless phone call..
I had the qualcomm directions, I was on a truck route, I looked at the atlas, I knew when to ignore the GPS.
When you call the shipper for directions you might be talking to a person that drives a car and doesn't realize they drive under an 11 foot bridge every day to get to work.

 

The 444-mile Natchez Trace Parkway commemorates an ancient trail used by animals and people that connected southern portions of the Mississippi River, through Alabama, to salt licks in today's central Tennessee.

The heaviest use of the Old Trace was from 1800 to about 1825 by men, known as "Kaintucks," who floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and returned north on foot. But the stories of the Old Trace reach far beyond the early 1800s. They include Mound Builders, Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, preachers, bandits, slaves, soldiers, settlers, and even Meriwether Lewis.

Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory when he mysteriously died on the Natchez Trace in 1809, at Grinder's Stand in Tennessee.

In the present day it is maintained & run by the National Park Service among other entities both federal and state for the now highway portion of the trace. It is also a part of the National Park System.

P.S. I studied History in college

 

I have talked to some people at the shipper/receiver when trying to get directions, that had NO IDEA of how to tell me to get there. They were so uh, well, I guess DUMB is the only word that fits here, that they could not even tell me the address of the place. I have to wonder how they get to work. Does their spouse/s.o. bring them and pick them up every day? I wonder if they can even find their way to the nearest bathroom?

And then I've talked with some that would start off with asking where I was, and take it from there. 100% on the money. . .

Calling the shipper/receiver is always a good idea if you have a question as to how to get there. But sometimes, they really are not a lot of help...

 

Thanks.

Never been on it but usually those National Park things have lots of signs posted.