Garmin NUVI 465LMT vs Garmin dezl 560LMT

 

I’m getting ready to retire my wonderful NUVI 660 and I am considering either the NUVI 465LMT or Garmin’s dezl 560LMT, I drive a charter bus and want a GPS geared more for commercial drivers. I would like to be able to enter the height and length of the bus I am driving for that trip. We run from Fl to Canada, NY, DC, Chicago and Texas.

Do any of you have any advice or experience with either of these models and if so which would you suggest I buy. Oh One thing, I need it to show me the cross streets when it is in the Show Map mode, not so important when I have a route programmed. I also have to have a suction cup mount because we change busses allot. Don’t know if I can buy that as an option or not!

Any help would be wonderful.. Oh just to be clear I wont buy anything other then Garmin, I am fussy that way lol

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Wolfhawk

Low Clearance POI

wolfhawk wrote:

I’m getting ready to retire my wonderful NUVI 660 and I am considering either the NUVI 465LMT or Garmin’s dezl 560LMT, I drive a charter bus and want a GPS geared more for commercial drivers. I would like to be able to enter the height and length of the bus I am driving for that trip. We run from Fl to Canada, NY, DC, Chicago and Texas.

Do any of you have any advice or experience with either of these models and if so which would you suggest I buy. Oh One thing, I need it to show me the cross streets when it is in the Show Map mode, not so important when I have a route programmed. I also have to have a suction cup mount because we change busses allot. Don’t know if I can buy that as an option or not!

Any help would be wonderful.. Oh just to be clear I wont buy anything other then Garmin, I am fussy that way lol

I can't recommend a model of GPS, but I do believe there is a low clearance POI here that you may find useful.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/1154

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Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT

garmin 465

I have the 465T and enjoy it very much (40 ft motor home with CRV in tow) I can set length, width, height, and if needed haz-mat. I also program no tunnels or ferries. As you approach destination more cross streets begin to show.

Why not check out Garmin's

Why not check out Garmin's feature comparison on the two?

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/compare.do?cID=133&compareProduc...

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I've Used Both

I've used both, and they're both fine. The Dezl screen is a little bigger, of course, but it doesn't add much IMO, unless you use the fuel and trip logging features.
One major disadvantage of the Dezl is that it doesn't allow you to search for Favorites along your route. I'm not sure why else one would save Favorites, except to be able to find them on your route again. The Dezl is the first GPS I've had that lacked this basic function.
There is a work-around for this, although it's a bit of a hassle because you'll have to do it whenever you add new Favorites. You can convert the Current.gpx file to a .gpi file, then load it as a POI, but you lose some info/function as .gpi is a simpler format. Not ideal, but it works.
Also, Garmin is switching from NTTS to Truckdown for commercial vehicle related POIs on the Dezl. Again, I've had both, and it seems to me that Truckdown has fewer truck stops in it's database than NTTS had. It seems that the smaller fuel stops are not covered as well as they were in the NTTS database. I can't tell how they do with the other services like repair shops. I wish I had them both to compare.
If you buy a Dezl that contains the NTTS database, you will not be able to update it. On the other hand, I'm not sure how, or if, the Truckdown database gets updated. I have a pretty new unit, and it's truck stop database is pretty outdated. I went 25 miles out of my way last night, because it did not have a Pilot that's been open over a year, in it.
All in all, had I known what I know now, I probably would've gotten another 465t.

I've used both

I've also used both. The 465T seemed to offer such promise, but gave me some really weird routes. Also, the screen wasn't really big enough to see from the dash in the truck, some four feet away. The 560LMT is big enough, gives good routing, and mine has the NTTS database that is over a year old. I guess 2 out of 3 isn't bad! LOL!

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KD5XB in DM84

i have the 465lmt

I have no conplaints about this gps. I am a trucker, just today i was about to turn on a road and it alerted me that it was a "non-preferred" road, and this was just in map mode. The alerts are awesome! Weight stations, high wind areas, low clearances, narrow bridges, downgrades, twisty roads etc. Those are things to help someone that already has alot on their plate such as driving a freaking sky scrapper!

The alerts are awesome

I have the Dezl 760 how do you get it to alert for weigh stations.

Charter Bus

I work as a driver for one of the largest charter/tour bus companies in the southeast. I do mainly over the road tours. I drive 45ft Prevost or MCI. I started with a street pilot 330c, then bought a Garmin 465t which worked ok, the problem was that in truck mode it took me a round about way to where I needed to be. I now have a DEZL 760 and love it, I use the RV mode with the specs for the motorcoach and it works great, just remember to keep it updated and only use it as a guide.