Magellan GPS - Re; Magellen CrossoverGPS.

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Re; Magellen CrossoverGPS.

Expediter

2007-10-30, 12:33 pm

Greetings

I Bought a Magellan Crossover unit at Cabela's In Sidney Nebraska $400. +
They soaked me.
The sales person assured me it had truck route downloadable capability.
Guess what.. they are sorry..
I need a good truck route GPS. unit.
Doesn't someone know how to make a SD. card to load truck route's??

Confused..

Jack Erbes

2007-10-31, 10:33 am

Expediter wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I Bought a Magellan Crossover unit at Cabela's In Sidney Nebraska $400. +
> They soaked me.
> The sales person assured me it had truck route downloadable capability.
> Guess what.. they are sorry..
> I need a good truck route GPS. unit.
> Doesn't someone know how to make a SD. card to load truck route's??
>
> Confused..

That is supposed to have "pre-loaded detailed street maps of 50 United
States, Canada and Puerto Rico" on it.

Does it have a setting where you can select the vehicle type you are
going to use or where you can set exclusions and exceptions for routing?

I don't know of any mapping product from Magellan or Garmin that has
"truck routes" in it as a unique type of routes.

On the Garmins you can select the type or transportation you want the
route calculated for (bicycle, bus, car/motorcycle, delivery, emergency,
pedestrian, taxi, or truck) and the route calculated will be suited to
the type of transportation selected.

But even with that, I'd think you would want to use one of the route
planners or route planning softwares used by over the road truck drivers
to make sure that you will have the clearances needed and meet other
restrictions that might apply.

I'd work on making the "sorry person" that mislead you take that back if
you cannot select a vehicle type when creating routes.

And if the Crossover does not have a setting that gives the user the
capability to tailor routes to vehicle types, then Magellan has truly
screwed up on this implementation.

Magellan, intentionally or out of simple stupidity, seems to be focused
on self-destruction and excluding themselves from any market except for
first time GPS buyers who purchase their products by accident.

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

lostparts

2007-10-31, 10:33 am

"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Expediter wrote:
>
> That is supposed to have "pre-loaded detailed street maps of 50 United
> States, Canada and Puerto Rico" on it.
>
> Does it have a setting where you can select the vehicle type you are
> going to use or where you can set exclusions and exceptions for routing?
>
> I don't know of any mapping product from Magellan or Garmin that has
> "truck routes" in it as a unique type of routes.
>
> On the Garmins you can select the type or transportation you want the
> route calculated for (bicycle, bus, car/motorcycle, delivery, emergency,
> pedestrian, taxi, or truck) and the route calculated will be suited to
> the type of transportation selected.
>
> But even with that, I'd think you would want to use one of the route
> planners or route planning softwares used by over the road truck drivers
> to make sure that you will have the clearances needed and meet other
> restrictions that might apply.
>
> I'd work on making the "sorry person" that mislead you take that back if
> you cannot select a vehicle type when creating routes.
>
> And if the Crossover does not have a setting that gives the user the
> capability to tailor routes to vehicle types, then Magellan has truly
> screwed up on this implementation.
>
> Magellan, intentionally or out of simple stupidity, seems to be focused
> on self-destruction and excluding themselves from any market except for
> first time GPS buyers who purchase their products by accident.
>
> Jack
>
> --
> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

You could get a small 12" laptop and try this program
http://www.alk.com/copilot/truck_lpt.asp.

Jack Erbes

2007-11-01, 7:33 am

lostparts wrote:

<snip>
> You could get a small 12" laptop and try this program
> http://www.alk.com/copilot/truck_lpt.asp.
>

That does sound like a better option for a truck driver. I tried one of
the earlier CoPilot Pocket PC version a few years back was not impressed
with the software features (routing control track recording if I
remember right). I wound up not using it.

But, reading the user's manual for the Truck 9 software, it sounds like
it is really tailored to the needs of truck drivers. Laptops with
navigation software and GPS inputs and setting or mounted on an engine
cover or dash can give a trucker a good large screen display that is
nearly unobtainable in any other equipment.

And the PC will move around in and out of the truck with the driver and
handle many of the other details of life on the road too.

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

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