PRO'S OTR DRIVERS NEED HELP FROM GARMIM

I hope there are Garmim people that read this an do somthing about it. 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

This is from member kd7lqw the 2ed one id from me. jolleyr.

I am a OTR driver. My name is jolleyr 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 Jolley