Where should the gps be placed?

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  1. skellr

    skellr Road Train Member

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    Yeah, and being that low all you are going to see is the hood in that spot anyway.
     
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    I've always mounted it to the face of the dash.
     
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    what happen to the map and the driver direction hotline. press 3 to repeat directions
     
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    I have my GPS mounted next to the color bottom machine(fish finder) and the VHF radio.
     
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    Somewhere on the planet earth so that the spherical trignometry with the satellite will function correctly as long the math computer codes dispose of the bottom half of the results leaving it's exact location on the map.
     
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    And at least getting a clear signal from 5 satellites for your altitude reading.
     
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    I’m not sure what a trucker brown is but if he got placed oos I’d suspect he had many things wrong or a attitude that got him a few extra tickets
     
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    He had a cut air line. Not a line under the trailer mind you, but the line he puts his hands on every time he swaps a trailer. He also had a tandem locking pin that was stuck behind the rail instead of locked in position.
     
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    Avoid mounting anything in the driver-side windshield wiper arc. Some states emforce this more strictly than others. BTW, No officer will stop writing a ticket if you say you don't agree with the ticket. I don't understand why so many people think "I don't agree" is the most important phrase in the English language.