Garmin nuvi 465T Truck GPS review
Sat, 11/14/2009 - 1:30pm
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16 years
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Just bought the new Garmin nuvi 465T. I used it for a week and sent it back. I'm a trucker and need a good gps, this one is ok, but not what it's suppose to be. It still needs some tweeking and updating. I think it's nothing more than a car gps with some truck features. I rate it a 6 out of 10. Not worth the 499.00
465T Vs. everything else
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The 465T is rally nothing more then a standard Nuvi with a few added features pretaining to Heavy trucks in order to make it more appealing to us, the commercial tranportation market. It fails to measure up however.
There are numerous programming bugs with the routing engine-it's inability to differinate between "shortest and "fastest" routes. the inability to detour when asked to, and the inability to follow avoidences rules. Heck the thing wouldn't reroute around a CLOSED interstate connection in Tulsa today and when I followed the marked detour, the thing kept trying to make me make a u-turn back into the closed area in spite of the traffic receiver displaying closed data.
The shortest route is not always the best route. This is a true statement. And vice versa. However, when looking at a route-if the "fastest" runs on US highways on open access roadways through small towns (read lights and lower speeds) vs 20 miles more on the interstate-something is wrong. And yet, this how the 465T routes. Add to that, a glareing insistance to route off truck-routes and through truck restricted areas (to cover themselves, a message pops up saying to obey all local restrictions).
You're a trucker. You have the right to ecpect logical common-sense routing that's going to keep you out of trouble, not get you into it. The 465T will get you into trouble-it's routing engine is designed for cars, not trucks, and does not take advantage of the extra "commercial" data added on the device.
I have the PCMiler's 430 and now the Rand McNally TND500. stick to devices like these-designed from the ground up as truck specific GPS devices-not some hurried up re-packaged ill-defined and programmed off the shelf device like the Nuvi 465T
Sorry Garmin, your late to the party and you forgot the dress.
Mark
Thanks a lot for the details. I am about to buy one.
This has been edited by me, the author.
The 465T is rally nothing more then a standard Nuvi with a few added features pretaining to Heavy trucks in order to make it more appealing to us, the commercial tranportation market. It fails to measure up however.
There are numerous programming bugs with the routing engine-it's inability to differinate between "shortest and "fastest" routes. the inability to detour when asked to, and the inability to follow avoidences rules. Heck the thing wouldn't reroute around a CLOSED interstate connection in Tulsa today and when I followed the marked detour, the thing kept trying to make me make a u-turn back into the closed area in spite of the traffic receiver displaying closed data.
The shortest route is not always the best route. This is a true statement. And vice versa. However, when looking at a route-if the "fastest" runs on US highways on open access roadways through small towns (read lights and lower speeds) vs 20 miles more on the interstate-something is wrong. And yet, this how the 465T routes. Add to that, a glareing insistance to route off truck-routes and through truck restricted areas (to cover themselves, a message pops up saying to obey all local restrictions).
You're a trucker. You have the right to ecpect logical common-sense routing that's going to keep you out of trouble, not get you into it. The 465T will get you into trouble-it's routing engine is designed for cars, not trucks, and does not take advantage of the extra "commercial" data added on the device.
I have the PCMiler's 430 and now the Rand McNally TND500. stick to devices like these-designed from the ground up as truck specific GPS devices-not some hurried up re-packaged ill-defined and programmed off the shelf device like the Nuvi 465T
Sorry Garmin, your late to the party and you forgot the dress.
Mark
Mark I to am a OTR driver
Mark I to am a OTR driver. My name is Robert I have a KW T-660 I am a Garmim fan it was for that reason and the hipe I heard an read about the 465T that I got one. now I am sorry that I did. Sorry Garmim. I should have gotten the Rand McNally TND500 or the TND700. Mark your post was an is right on the money mine is the same way. Plus it shows I am either driving in a field when I am on US 125 in GA or on a side road when I am on I-15 in MT. Sorry Garmim next time were a dress when you come to the party.
Robert
Southern CA Temp 76 and Sunny. Running around with my Nuvi 465T. Getting lost around the country and loving it.