Sat Nav - which one? Budget VS Garmin/Tom Tom

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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stu675:

TruckerGuy:
I tell the GPS where I’m going (the exact route), and it merely provides a moving map!

I use CoPilot on my phone and iPad. It has an easy method of adding “route through here” to force it the precise way you want to go.

I just study my destination and memorize the last mile or so. I run through road/junction for the route, and have a quick look for easy alternates should I get diverted. That really helped one night when the M1 was closed and was being diverted somewhere around Milton Keynes. Because I researched the route previously, I used my own alternate which made things easier.

What do you set the tachograph to for all the time you spend route planning?

All the time spent planning a route? Is that to say you spend no time route planning but just blindly trust your sat nav?

I do what Truckerguy does just with google maps. I scope out the route on google maps then I just decide what roads I am going to take. I prefer Google maps to copilot because Google maps is free.

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adam277:

stu675:

TruckerGuy:
I tell the GPS where I’m going (the exact route), and it merely provides a moving map!

I use CoPilot on my phone and iPad. It has an easy method of adding “route through here” to force it the precise way you want to go.

I just study my destination and memorize the last mile or so. I run through road/junction for the route, and have a quick look for easy alternates should I get diverted. That really helped one night when the M1 was closed and was being diverted somewhere around Milton Keynes. Because I researched the route previously, I used my own alternate which made things easier.

What do you set the tachograph to for all the time you spend route planning?

All the time spent planning a route? Is that to say you spend no time route planning but just blindly trust your sat nav?

I do what Truckerguy does just with google maps. I scope out the route on google maps then I just decide what roads I am going to take. I prefer Google maps to copilot because Google maps is free.

I guess that’s the benefit of not doing multidrop - which is my only experience so far.