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Mar 29, 2018I have the same Back-Seat Driver that drove me nuts. It is especially annoying when you are wide awake and driving the same route for the 100th time. I don't need to be reminded of every twist and turn and hill along the way. However, some of the settings can be useful especially when you are navigating unfamiliar roads.
Our unit is a Winnebago installed Xite 9" Infotainment Center with the Rand McNally RVGPS Navigation and Routing for RVs. The first thing you need to do is install the Rand McNally Dock on a computer and take the SD card from the unit and do an update. Almost certainly that by the time the RV is in the owners hands, several updates have been issued. I will bet that a detailed instruction manual was not included; you can download one from Rand McNally. The one I am refering to is RVND 7730. Yours may be the same or similar. My unit got so screwy that I just set the whole thing to factory default and then from there explored all the settings and features. I find the system not very intuitive and awkward to use, but I am used to it now.
I seem to recall hearing something like the RV Violation warning. I think some of the information about the roads are 'Crowd Sourced' like on 'Waze'. If you are carrying propane, you can't use some bridges or tunnels. Some roads have lane restrictions or are closed to all but passenger cars. I'm a little mad about how my GPS told me to stay right and go through a toll plaza that was only for commercial trucks. Once there I could not leave until I paid a toll based on the class of the chassis and how many wheels were on the ground. Not cheap. In the set-up menu, you can enter the type and specifications of the RV. You can tell the unit how you want to be routed; car, RV or truck. There are settings for speed, hills, turns, bridges and tunnels and all sorts of stuff. You can set thresholds or turn off certain features. You just have to go into the menus and see what is there and make changes to suit your situation. For example, I have the speed warning set to Limit + a little extra to keep from speeding. If your GPS knows how big and heavy your RV is, it will tell you that the bridge ahead is a bad idea. One time before I had the RM RVGPS in I tried to get across a river from New Jersey to Pennsylvania and avoid a toll on the Interstate. As I approached the bridge, I saw a sign, "Weight Limit 5 Tons". If I had any thought of crossing that bridge, it went away when I saw a parked patrol car with eyes on traffic. I turned around, got on the Interstate and was a few bucks lighter. Foiled again! It was such a good plan. The GPS did steer me away from going down a road with a killer railroad bridge that would have taken everything off the roof of my Navion.
