I will stick to my Rand McNally. I think they are a distraction.

Oh boy here we go again,must be a dead horse around here somewhere.

Mine has built in antenna. (Garmin 350).

I say return brand x without her knowing and buy a super trucker GPS :lol:

I'm way ahead of you. :wink:

Ironically, she is the one who needs "directional help" more than my truck. Maybe she could benefit from the brand-X unit in her car.

I use Delorme and I hate it with a passion. I mean it's great when it works but it takes hours to get a signal sometimes and then it loses it.

On those mountable ones, how do you put in the info? I mean with Delorme or Microsoft S&T you type in the info on the laptop and I always wondered how the other ones worked. I'm thinking you can connect it to your laptop via USB or Bluetooth and type in the info on the laptop.

I'd like to buy a mountable one but I'm done with buying things for a long time.

Route yourself with a map then check for restrictions and clearances.
Route yourself with a GPS then check for restrictions and clearances.

How is it the GPS' fault if you hit a bridge?

Mine has a screen you can pull up that looks like a keyboard/letterpad. You just touch the letters on the screen to enter info. Most GPS units have very few external buttons, it's mostly touch-screen.

I don't understand this statement,didn't you get your own authority and start making a million dollars right off the bat? 8) 8)

Actually on my down time, I am kept pretty busy just trying to count the money I'm making it's so much :) .

But all kidding aside, I want to move ahead in life and as they say it's not how much you make it's how much you spend. And truth be told I'm not making much here but I'm not running like mad either. No business starts off (well at least most don't) highly profitable; I'm taking my time and just learning right now and tring to keep the mistakes as least costly as possible.

You know (ok now you get me going :) ) everyone I know is hurting financially. I was talking to a relative the other day who was telling me that he has income of over $200,000 a year but he is in debt and struggling. All these people I know in money troubles have fancy cars (fancy to me as I drive a 8 year old Huyndai) big screen tv's and all other types of things that I would never own.

There is someone on this board, I forget who, was saying they drive an old truck and have bought 8 homes since's they have been driving. That's what I'd like to do, maybe not the homes but the general idea. I won't get rich off of trucking but who knows what this leads to.

Ok that's it, actually I'm just stalling as I need to go shower and it's a blizzard out there and I don't want to leave the truck. I'm glad I got within 60 miles or so of my stop cause I see this is going to be a long 60 miles.

[quote="rank"]S&T uses an external antenna that plugs into the USB port on the laptop. Then the antenna sits on the dash or sticks to the windshield. Signals are no problem.[/qu


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