pro trucking version

[RegB]

Hmmm, an old thread - not sure how/why I stumbled into it this time, other than that I have a continued interest in finding usable routes for long('ish) trailers.

Alternative products have appeared in the interim, prices continue to drop, memory sizes increase, more POIs get bundled (more for the benefit of the franchises than the travelers).

My reading at this time is that the truck routing providers have moved towards the consumer (car) space and will continue to do so.
Also that laptops are becoming less and less favored as the trend moves to cell phones & what we used to call PDAs (i-PAD, etc.).
The trend towards self contained units as reviewed here will probably continue;

http://www.dieselboss.com/truck_gps_review_features.htm

[driver379]

Sign me up, I`ll buy it`s a huge pain and kinda defeats the purpose of the software to have to keep flippin through a paper atlas.

[RegB]

Since I posted that link I have seen Garmin 465T available at reputable web order sites for under $300.
OK, so it is a couple of hundred more than the roughly equivalent Garmin car model, but ONE ticket for
over width, length, whatever else would more than make up the difference.

Clearly DeLorme does NOT have an interest in the RV or truck routing markets - too bad.
I'm getting tired of lugging a laptop around in the truck anyway.

[Djtentman]

We have the Garmin 465T. It works OK, but it's behind the rest of Garmin's products and doesn't have nearly all the truck info that we'd like.

Just for what it's worth.

[cfilidoro]

I would like to be able to set a routing preference to use truck routes. We travel a lot with a large 5th wheel toy hauler and sticking to a truck route is very important to us. We have a Garmin GPS for trucking but I like to do my long term planning with Street Atlas. Even if the truck routes were identified in a different color it would help tremendously.

Thanks

[RegB]

I gave up on this.
DeLorme either doesn't have the interest, or doesn't understand the opportunity, too bad.
I think the competition is now so far ahead that it would be foolish to try and catch up anyway - still less wise to try and PASS them.
In any case, as I said earlier, I am tired of lugging a laptop around and cell phone apps have come a LONG WAY since we started this thread.
I think that will be my next most likely nav device.
Right now I am using a Garmin Zumo 550, which is water resistant for motorcycle use so if I ever drop it in a puddle it will probably survive (-:

[RegB]

We have the Garmin 465T. It works OK, but it's behind the rest of Garmin's products and doesn't have nearly all the truck info that we'd like.

Just for what it's worth.

I have done trailer trips coast to coast and border to border with SA2009 Plus AND the Garmin Zumo 550.
I don't know what "truck info" I am missing, other than truck/large trailer ROUTING info.
I see signs before every highway exit ramp proclaiming diesel fuel availability and of course the fast (non)food stops that the franchises have bought data space in SA's POI base, as well as the chain motels, etc.

All these years later and DeLorme is STILL so far behind Magellan, Garmin, et al.
Despite fuel prices RVs and large trailers haven't gone away and just about everything we buy at retail travels by truck.
People who haul horses around STILL need large(ish) trailers.
I don't "get it", I really don't.
DeLorme COULD do this, the market is (still) there, MOST of the data is in the public domain now - "the economy" is hardly an excuse, get ready for the next boom will Ya (-: