GPS Question

Hello! I didn't know where to get a quick response to a question I have so I'm trying here. I am a recent Truck School graduate and have my CDL. I have a phone interview with Schneider in a few days and hope to be driving soon. I have a GARMIN NUVI 755T CAR GPS. Do I need this gps for my future job? Reason I'm asking is because I have bills to pay and I would like to sell it. I'd appreciate any opinion on this matter. Thanks! John O.

I don't know about Schneider but my company has electronic logs with GPS in the trucks, but I bought a truck gps anyway. It also helps to see your route on a map too.

THAT particular GPS you can sell. It's a car GPS and will get ya in a load of trouble if you follow it due to truck routing restrictions. You will need to buy yourself a truck GPS. But until you get a truck gps you might keep and use that one but you will have to be careful and avoid areas that trucks are not allowed in.

When you can you should but a truck GPS. The Qualcomm directions are horrible at Schneider. . . Speaking from experience.

Echoing the sentiment to get yourself a truck-specific GPS as soon as you're able. Fair warning, though, they're a little pricey. Especially if you go for one of the 7" screens with all the bells and whistles.

One word of caution as well: never rely solely on your GPS. It can (and will) lie to you. Mine has tried routing me on roads that have weight, height, and/or length restrictions. It has also tried to take me on some of the most retarculously long scenic routes imaginable. As an example, I had put in the Flying J in Texarkana, which is right off I-30 at exit 7. My stupid GPS tried telling me to take exit 17, follow the old highway for 10 miles, turn left, go another mile down the road, make a U-turn, then go back a mile and a half to the truck stop.

GPS should be just one tool in your arsenal.

Echoing the sentiment to get yourself a truck-specific GPS as soon as you're able. Fair warning, though, they're a little pricey. Especially if you go for one of the 7" screens with all the bells and whistles.

One word of caution as well: never rely solely on your GPS. It can (and will) lie to you. Mine has tried routing me on roads that have weight, height, and/or length restrictions. It has also tried to take me on some of the most retarculously long scenic routes imaginable. As an example, I had put in the Flying J in Texarkana, which is right off I-30 at exit 7. My stupid GPS tried telling me to take exit 17, follow the old highway for 10 miles, turn left, go another mile down the road, make a U-turn, then go back a mile and a half to the truck stop.

GPS should be just one tool in your arsenal.

My GPS did the exact same thing last night.

Dave

Exit 7 flying j has done it to me also. I figured out that the road near the exits there are not recognized by the gps as a legal truck route therefore tells ya to go up to exit 10

I have the Rand McNally 520. It gives me a hazmat violation warning as soon as I get off exit 3 I-20 for the Flying J at Shreveport. (There is no hazmat restriction there).

Uuummmm, Fatsquatch, they don't make a GPS for the kind of lengths and weights your loads some times have on them!

Uuummmm, Fatsquatch, they don't make a GPS for the kind of lengths and weights your loads some times have on them!

Huh? I pull a standard 53' reefer with a standard 80,000 GVW.

Unless that's a commentary on my own "personal" length, in which case, all I can say is gee, thanks!