GPS
Apr 12th 2010 | 12:48 pm
#31
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 13,402
From: South of Calgary
Re: GPS
The main things you have to watch for is restricted routes where trucks can not go, plus low bridges/underpasses, and also weight restricted roads that trucks can not go on. Someone I know had just got a car GPS which took him down this road with a low bridge. He could not get under it, so had to call the police to block the road off so he could reverse back up this road. The police then gave him 3 tickets which come to more than what it would have cost to buy a truck specific GPS in the first place. Yes a map can take you on the main Highways to where you go. Its when you get to the towns when the problems can start.
I have the Cobra 7700 Pro. I can do multi routing, takes me on all the right routes, tells me where all the truck stops are along my route, or where ever I want to stop. If I brake down it has all the contact details of all the brake down services and repair shops in the local area to where I am including Phone numbers etc. so you can see it is an essential peace of kit that no trucker should be without
I have the Cobra 7700 Pro. I can do multi routing, takes me on all the right routes, tells me where all the truck stops are along my route, or where ever I want to stop. If I brake down it has all the contact details of all the brake down services and repair shops in the local area to where I am including Phone numbers etc. so you can see it is an essential peace of kit that no trucker should be without
Apr 12th 2010 | 4:01 pm
#33
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 571
From: High River AB
Re: GPS
allicat001,
I shunted with Ian in yard,
my GPS packed up this week and I'm now going to go for the GarminT465. It's for trucks and covers bridges, weight limits, truckstops etc. tell him to buy a Rand McNally laminated mapbook of US & Canada to use alongside GPS. We don't always get routed the same way as the GPS wants to go so he'll need the mapbook to re-route the GPS.
Steer clear of Rand McNally & PC Miler Truck GPS, they are new at the moment and have problems but they are sorting them out.
Check prices but usually cheaper in Montana (Shelby Pilot, Great Falls Pilot or Flying J), no sales tax down there.
Neil.
I shunted with Ian in yard,
my GPS packed up this week and I'm now going to go for the GarminT465. It's for trucks and covers bridges, weight limits, truckstops etc. tell him to buy a Rand McNally laminated mapbook of US & Canada to use alongside GPS. We don't always get routed the same way as the GPS wants to go so he'll need the mapbook to re-route the GPS.
Steer clear of Rand McNally & PC Miler Truck GPS, they are new at the moment and have problems but they are sorting them out.
Check prices but usually cheaper in Montana (Shelby Pilot, Great Falls Pilot or Flying J), no sales tax down there.
Neil.
