Which IS The Best GPS

The "set origin" button is a new feature that was added to one of the recent software updates. Users wanted to be able to plan a trip from somewhere OTHER than where you are sitting (which makes sense.) So you can set in an address and designate that place as the "origin" or starting point of a hypothetical trip in order to see how it would route you.

As far as "Fastest/Shortest" routing, we have found that it is very similar in nature on all of the various brands that we tested. Typically, in a big truck, you would NOT want to route on "shortest" routing. For example, I would much rather use the Beltway to go around Washington DC instead of going straight through the middle of town even though that method would be technically "shorter."

I have found in a few instances, especially outside of the more urban "large city" parts of the country where the "shorter" route cuts off a considerable amount of miles by taking truck-legal state routes or highways instead of the interstate. So I usually leave the settings on "allow freeways" and "fastest" as my default, but if the route looks excessive from familiar experience with a particular route, then I'll run it on "shortest" just to check it out and see if that route is something that I'd rather use on THIS trip. Again, usually "fastest" should be your default routing in most cases. And yes, "shortest" is still using truck-legal roads unless you are in "car" mode - where it truly use the shortest mileage route regardless of the roads.

 

Shortest routes tend to be narrow windy stuff that you don't want to be on anyway. The TND will still route you through downtown in places but there's other places where the 465t will try to route though downtown, like Atlanta where all trucks are banned, and the TND will go around.

 

That's why there's the Rand-McNally Motor Carrier Atlas. So you can tell the stupid little box where it's going to go.

 

Yup. Like you, I don't recommend relying 100% on ANY SINGLE SOURCE of information in life either...

 

Hey all. Probably gonna be in the market for a truck GPS unit pretty soon. I've actually been using the GPS app on my phone for a while and it works really well so I figure why keep paying a monthly service fee for it when I can just pay one lump sum and be done with it? Lol.

Anyway, was just wondering which of the truck GPS units on the market seems to be the best for the price? Haven't really heard one way or another on any of them. Thanks.

 

currently using the PC-Miler Navigator, prior to that I used the lowerance

 

pc miler is cheaper than the big ones and has done a great job it gives me exact directions the shippers have

 

I use a Tom Tom and it works very well and no service fee.

 

The Rand-Mcnally, still works OK for me !!

 

Using the Cobra 7700 and give it a 95% accuracy rating. Had the TD500. It quit after 8 hours of use! Prior to that had the PC Miler Navigator. It still works, but the case has fallen apart. It was the first edition and with the software update it works fine. I think the new ones have better cases.