Road Atlas And GPS Brands

The only thing the Rand McNally uses a Internet connection for is live traffic updates. That's it. It works perfectly fine without it. I tried the Garmin and it did not have the options I like which come with the Rand McNally. When you put in your route then look for truck stops it will not show on the Garmin all the truck stops along that route. Only the large ones. When I first got it I did a search for truck stops in the area and it said the nearest one was 14 miles away even though I was standing in a Petro parking lot. Go figure.

The Garmin did have a few features I liked. The voice command was neat and worked pretty well. The ability to choose routes to save fuel could be useful but not for a company driver since companies want you on a certain route.

There was a few more features I liked but not enough to give up my 720 Rand McNally.

I had the Rand McNally 720 but when I went to do a search for the local sheetz gas station, it told me I needed a wifi connection to do searches like that while for Garmin it just up and goes. Did I do something wrong?

What may have happened is it would need an update which all GPS units need to update properly. Software update that is. See the GPS may have sat around a warehouse for months if not a year or more and software gets out of date pretty fast.

Just went and traded the Dezl in for the Rand McNally 720, how do you do a local search though? with the Garmin I just head to the search and type anything I want and it'll find the address for me.

I punched in: Choose Destination -> Local Search -> [Network Error message here]

I realize now that local search required the wifi which led me to believe Rand McNally needed wifi to do EVERYTHINGGG but that isn't the case. Correct me if I'm wrong on this but in order to search for local gas stations I punched in

Choose Destination -> Points Of Interest -> My Car (set it to car for now) -> Other Categories -> Gas Station -> All.

And that gives me a list of the closest gas stations without the need for wifi!

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOWWWWW! Now I get to have this manly looking GPS over Garmins babysmooth yet heavy gps :3 thanks!

Gonna take my Garmin back and give it another shot! I really liked the Rand McNally gps and its so much more rugged thant he Dezl. Thanks for the help everyone!

Maybe it's just me but I like the interface of the Rand McNally. A lot easier to find stuff on it.