Nuvi 760 traffic question

 

I currently have the TMC traffic with the Nuvi 760 and have a few questions.

I have my work marked as one of my favorites and use it as a destination everyday so that I can find traffic on my route. The other day when I was coming home I noticed that the ETA was about 20 minutes higher than normal. I later discovered that the time was off because it was routing me a different way since there was traffic on my normal route. The problem with this is that I wasn't paying attention to the GPS and ended up getting caught in the traffic on my normal route.

I was wondering if there is a way to make the GPS route me my normal route and then have it show me the traffic and let me decide if I want to avoid the traffic or not.

Any input greatly appreciated.....thanks!!!

Traffic

ppalmerjr wrote:

I currently have the TMC traffic with the Nuvi 760 and have a few questions.

I have my work marked as one of my favorites and use it as a destination everyday so that I can find traffic on my route. The other day when I was coming home I noticed that the ETA was about 20 minutes higher than normal. I later discovered that the time was off because it was routing me a different way since there was traffic on my normal route. The problem with this is that I wasn't paying attention to the GPS and ended up getting caught in the traffic on my normal route.

I was wondering if there is a way to make the GPS route me my normal route and then have it show me the traffic and let me decide if I want to avoid the traffic or not.

Any input greatly appreciated.....thanks!!!

Don't use the route mode - just drive in "View Map" mode. The unit will still display the traffic icons and alerts.

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JRoz -- DriveSmart 55 & Traffic

760 rerouting (traffic)

jrozsnaki wrote:
ppalmerjr wrote:

I currently have the TMC traffic with the Nuvi 760 and have a few questions.

I have my work marked as one of my favorites and use it as a destination everyday so that I can find traffic on my route. The other day when I was coming home I noticed that the ETA was about 20 minutes higher than normal. I later discovered that the time was off because it was routing me a different way since there was traffic on my normal route. The problem with this is that I wasn't paying attention to the GPS and ended up getting caught in the traffic on my normal route.

I was wondering if there is a way to make the GPS route me my normal route and then have it show me the traffic and let me decide if I want to avoid the traffic or not.

Any input greatly appreciated.....thanks!!!

Don't use the route mode - just drive in "View Map" mode. The unit will still display the traffic icons and alerts.

Makes sense but will this defeat the purpose of the traffic notifications because it will be too late by the time I am told about traffic.

Is there anyway to make the GPS take a preferred route to my work so that I can force it to reroute due to traffic?

routing with traffic

under navigation turn off avoid traffic. it will route you the normal way, show the traffic and then you can manually tell it to avoid specific traffic situations. That is how I do it everyday also.

RE: routing with traffic

Dwshouston wrote:

under navigation turn off avoid traffic. it will route you the normal way, show the traffic and then you can manually tell it to avoid specific traffic situations. That is how I do it everyday also.

I couldn't have said it any better!

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JRoz -- DriveSmart 55 & Traffic