Car Tech: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation
http://WorldNav3300gps.blogspot.com
by tedcohens - 5/7/08 1:42 PM In reply to: Truck Navigation Device now available by tonyb103Don't waste your money on WorldNav products.
Check out this website:
http://WorldNav3300gps.blogspot.com
Teletype WorldNav is a pice of junk!!!
by jbitz - 4/11/08 8:48 AM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01We bought 3 of these. The first time we tried to use it, it tried to bring us under a low bridge about 100 yards from our warehouse. We waited a month for them to send us new maps and it just did the same thing. These are garbage!
Looked at them and...
by R. Proffitt
- 4/23/08 5:33 PM
In reply to: Teletype WorldNav is a pice of junk!!! by jbitz
It appears to be that mass produced, zero support type model.
Steal, borrow any unit you find reviewed favorably by Cnet or David Pogue. See http://reviews.cnet.com/gps-systems/?sort=edRating7+desc
Or http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=69c27e9791208256d719c33cd2d8887f933a1745
Bob
Stay away from WorldNav products unless you want trouble
by tedcohens - 5/7/08 1:49 PM In reply to: Teletype WorldNav is a pice of junk!!! by jbitzWe've started a public website to keep people informed on this company.
WorldNav products are nothing but trouble. Go to:
http://www.WorldNav3300gps.blogspot.com
WorldNav products are a waqste of money and time
by tedcohens - 5/7/08 6:40 PM In reply to: Teletype WorldNav is a pice of junk!!! by jbitzTruck NAv
by mike lambie - 4/16/08 1:28 PM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01Did you eventually decide on a Nav Unit with truck restrictions and which one did you select and how has it been working for your dad.
here is a good gps unit for trucks ,rv and buses
by forgetful7769 - 5/1/08 10:38 PM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01i have looked for a gps unit for trucks. the one i found is called (streetpilot 7200 or 7500) it has a 7" touchscreen, Xm Radio, traffic and weather radar from Xm Radio, and a lot of other options, but does cost extra. the price for the gps does cost around $700-$800 you can get the best price on shopzilla.com. i have heard a lot of good things about it and the one problem is the mounting is weak
Truck GPS
by kellybob - 8/12/08 10:28 PM In reply to: here is a good gps unit for trucks ,rv and buses by forgetful7769Just a heads up. The Garmin products do not offer commercial truck routing. The truck setting in the unit will do it's best to keep you on class A roads or main roads but they do not use commercial truck routs. If the only way to get you to your destination is on a road that trucks are not allowed thats the way it is going to send you. I've been a truck driver for ten years and I've had the Garmin streetpilot c530 for eight months. It is the no frills version of the 7200 and the 7500 for a lot less money. The streetpilot line has been dicontinued. I've been very happy with this unit it has saved me a lot of time and miles but it has sent me on a couple of wayward routs but I wouldn't be with out it.
GPS
by rford1357 - 5/11/08 5:48 AM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01Tellitype truck has 3.5" & 7" GPS
WorldNav GPS for Truckers
by oleg_popov - 5/11/08 8:24 PM In reply to: GPS by rford1357I have not 7 inch GPS unit from TeleType for 2 months. I am very happy with their latest update that I got in the last mail.
On my last trip it found that the route that I got from this small unit is better then the one was given to me by my company. I noticed that if you select different size truck the color of roads changes. Pink color indicate restricted roads. That helped me couple of times in NY area which is crazy to drive in the first place with Semi Truck.
I would recommed getting this unit with rear view camera. I got one at Radio Shack and now on the TeleType GPS I can see rear view. Cool!
rear view cam?
by Connor1536 - 5/12/08 10:16 AM In reply to: WorldNav GPS for Truckers by oleg_popovHi
Which rear view cam did you get? How wide is the view? I think that would be killer for docking. I was looking at the 7" gps, now i think i will look harder. Thank You.
Kevin
Rear View Camera
by oleg_popov - 6/23/08 3:13 PM In reply to: rear view cam? by Connor1536I got the camera directly from TeleType. It came with 120 feet long cable.
It was not difficult to put it together. You just need to secure weather proof camera in way that it will not get stolen. Cover comes with the unit and it nicely hides it.
truck driver in need of navigation
by toothpick73 - 5/25/08 12:44 AM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01The best solution is go with is a laptop because with a laptop not only do you get a panoramic view that you can’t get with a stand alone GPS navigation unit, but you also can multitask and use the laptop to do several different jobs simultaneously besides just navigation, which makes you more efficient and your job much easier. Plus it’s a much more flexible option since with a laptop you can also cruise the Internet, send and receive emails, download music, watch movies, etc. Try multitasking or sending and receiving emails with a stand alone GPS unit, you just can’t do it, but you can with a laptop!
The next question is what solution to use with a laptop and while there are several solutions out there on the market, the best solution I’ve found by far is a combination of Microsoft Streets & Trips coupled together with the innovative new Truck Stops Plus 08 template, which transforms Microsoft Streets & Trips into trucking software.
Microsoft Streets & Trips is the best solution on the market because it simply is the most accurate and by far the easiest to learn and use. Not to mention it cost a small fraction of what some of the other high priced solutions cost like Co-Pilot, which comes into play big time since you have to update every year to keep your maps as current as possible.
Add the Truck Stops Plus 08 (www.truckstopsplus.com) add on template and together with Microsoft Streets & Trips it not only gives you the ability to verify and confirm your routes are truck legal quickly, but at the same time the template also contains thousands of trucking specific points of interests like truck stops, Wal-Mart Supercenters, rest areas, turnpike service plazas, parking areas, weigh stations, etc., and all of the points of interests like truck stops are catalogued, so you can easily check the name of truck stops, it’s location information, whether it is a small, medium, or large truck stop, whether the truck stop has a truck scale or not, whether the truck stop does major repairs, minor repairs, or no repairs, etc. You’ll never use a truck stop guide again!
One of the excellent features you can use with the Truck Stops Plus 08 template is the “Find Nearby Places” feature, which will list in alphabetical order every category of trucking specific points of interest within a 50-mile radius, and inside each category, the individual points of interests are further listed from closest to farthest while at the same time they display exactly how far away they are located from the present location. When you expand the categories and click the individual points of interest, a text box with a full description displays next to the points of interests on the map so you can see its exact location. Then to choose to route to any one of them, you simply right click it and choose add as stop, and you are good to go. It’s far easier and much faster than the six steps I used to have to go through in Co-Pilot when I use to use that over priced junk!
In any event, there are a lot of solutions on the market, but don’t necessarily believe that more expensive always equates into better. Sometimes the cheapest and simplest solutions are the best solutions! I’ve tried and used most of the solutions out there on the market to do my job, and the solution I just described above is by far the best and easiest I’ve used so far, and, by the way, it is also by far the cheapest! I wish I had found out much sooner because I would have saved myself a lot of money and a lot of frustration.
GPS reviews
by cwalkerUSMC - 7/8/08 10:58 AM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01there is an article in Open Air Magazine that might help break down a few of the GPS models...here is the link to the reader, just find the article titled "All the right moves". I hope that helps!
http://www.bnqt.com/OpenAir/magReader.php
GPS reviews
by cwalkerUSMC - 7/8/08 10:59 AM In reply to: Truck driver in need of GPS navigation by melley01there is an article in Open Air Magazine that might help break down a few of the GPS models...here is the link to the reader, just find the article titled "All the right moves". I hope that helps!
http://www.bnqt.com/OpenAir/magReader.php
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