GPS recommendations for truck driver

Christopher S. · Oct 7, 2012

My dad has an older GPS that had a "truck" setting. It would pick a route that would be easy for a truck and trailer rig to navigate. This works really well for his roll off dumpster business. The GPS's my brothers and I have chosen within the last few years do not have this setting. Often times they will give you a route that is easy for a car to navigate but difficult for a large truck and trailer to use.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a GPS with "truck" features or a GPS that an over the road truck driver may use?

jon f mn · Oct 7, 2012

They have truck specific gps's that only route on truck routes and keep track of low bridges and such. They are made by Cobra, Rand McNally and a couple of others. They are very expensive tho compared to the regular ones, starting at $250.00 to $450.00

ShadetreeRet · Oct 7, 2012

Considering the hassle of dealing with low bridges, etc. that price doesn't seem too bad. One wrong turn could easily cost you more than that. There are a couple of RR overpass bridges in Greensboro, NC, (I think one of them was built before semis were even invented) that some well meaning person will give a driver directions and not thinking about the bridge, and about twice a year a trailer will get stuck trying to go under it. It was on my daily drive to work.

Zachary Hoyt · Oct 7, 2012

Senator Schumer recently announced that he wants to have separate GPSs for trucks and buses since there have been a number of fatal accidents from low bridges and such.
Zach

Hoofer B · Oct 7, 2012

My guys run Rand Mcnally with the big screens. They are about $330 each well worth it.

JDseller · Oct 7, 2012

I have them in all three semi trucks we own. I have had Garmin and others but I like the Cobra 7750 the best. It is truck specific. Meaning you program in what kind of truck you have and the size/weight an it choses the route with that in mind. It also has a 7 inch screen and that really helps give you time to see things when you have it set to show all the streets there are.

I have linked to a seller on Ebay that has new ones with free shipping for $269.97. That is a real deal on them. I am more than likely going to get an extra one for a spare. I gave over $350 for the other ones I have last winter.
Cobra 7750 Truck Navigator

504 · Oct 7, 2012

In Missouri on US 61 there is a state route 168 in Hannibal,narrow two lane cow path. If you run 61 north 10 miles you will come to 168 again, there it is a wide two lane with shoulders. I meet truckers on the skinny road all of the time.(GPS for 4 wheelers)

RalphWD45 · Oct 7, 2012

Sounds like a good way to keep Cuckie Schumer busy, worring about GPSs, instead of gun control!

Anonymous-0 · Oct 8, 2012

When GPS's are outlawed, only outlaws will have GPS!

Dave Sherburne NY · Oct 8, 2012

Chuck the schmuck will do anything to get his name and picture in the news.

Goose · Oct 8, 2012

That's just Missouri. I just refused a bunch of work in NW Missouri because the roads are terrible, they don't use the standard satellite numbering system with blue and white house numbers, GPS doesn't locate half the rural addresses, and almost nobody, town or rural, bothers to put numbers on their houses.

And it's not just me. My District Manager in Minneapolis tried to stick me with this batch of work because someone else already bailed out on it.

Leroy · Oct 8, 2012

Company my wife works for there delievery truck was in shop and had a rented one. Was using the gps and had been on delieverys before on this road. Well they now have the record of being the only ones to make it through under the bridge but the top of the truck was completely sheared off. A system that told of the low spots could have saved this truck. The low overhead sign was missing tho so the driver was not cited. A few weeks back a truck pulled in and said he did not think he was supposed to be here when he seem my place. I live on a north-south road and the place he was looking for is on an east-west road that ends a half mile east of mthe road I am on. New when he got in no livestalk and he was looking for a cattle farm. How that could put you on a road going the wrong way 2 miles from where you want to go does not give me any confidance in them. I do not want one.

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