Traveling with motorhome & gps

If you select "Fastest Route" it should keep you on major interstate highways and not route you through the cities.

The GPS is a tool, not a 100% perfect machine. If you set your "vehicle" on "truck", you should stay fairly much on truck routes.

Do this by going to settings, navigation and vehicle type.

Hope this helps.

I use "Truck" when pulling the 5th wheel... works a treat and keeps me out of congested areas.

I have read the manual section for my nuvi 650 that describes the vehicle types I can select: Changing the Map Settings.

And I've visited the Garmin webpage for vechiles:
http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/index.jsp

But nowhere is there any mention of how the vehicle icon affects the route selection. It's only a pretty little picture to show the kind of car you're driving ( or want to drive ).

Did I miss something?

I believe the discussion pertains to Vehicle Type found under Settings>Navigation, not Settings>Map, to select your mode of transportation, i.e. Car/Motorcycle, Bicycle, Pedestrian, Truck, etc., which then "optimizes" your route according to your vehicle type.

For example, if you select Pedestrian as your vehicle type, then your device will avoid interstates, highways, and/or freeways as those aren't typically traveled by foot.

you can teach an old dog new tricks, but, I'd have to admit that the manual ( nuvi650_OwnersManual.pdf ) is a little vague as to why I would want to change the vehicle in the Navigation section. I vote we call Garmin and ask them to put a little more info in that sentence.

This is something that I will definitely have to play with for a while.

dd

one of my friends told me that when on"bus" that it meant business area, and when on a trip it took me thru a large business section, so i thought the friend was correct. i sent an email to garmin and they told me it meant bus style vehicle.