Garmin GPS

docj wrote:
We have owned a 465T for two years and it has done a pretty good job. There's only one aspect of using it that may be improved upon by the new RV 760 and that's what happens when a route you want to use is truck-restricted but not RV-restricted.

Sometimes truck-restricted roads are unsuitable for large vehicles, in general, so staying off them is a good thing. On occasion, however, you encounter roads that are truck-restricted because the town or whatever doesn't want commercial vehicles on them but RVs would be OK. The 465T can't make that distinction, the newer Garmin RV GPS can.

This issue did create a bit of a nuisance for us one time when it turned out that the CG we were headed to was on a truck-restricted road so the Garmin was trying to get us to the CG by minimizing the distance we traveled on that road. However, in doing so it was leading us "hither and yon" on some pretty narrow and winding roads that didn't happen to be truck-restricted. When we finally gave up and switched the GPS to "car" mode it suddenly said something like "turn at the next corner and you'll be at your destination".:S

But that was only one time in ~25,000 miles of driving so I can't get all that upset about it, not enough to replace it. The new GPS has lots of RV-related points of interest built-in, but with a smart phone these days most of that sort of stuff is readily available IMHO.

This has been exactly our experience as well. Really like the 465T, but it's inability to tell the difference between commercial truck and RV routing has led us on some pretty convoluted routes. For this reason and a few others, I've pre-ordered the Garmin RV 760LMT (not to be confused with the DEZL 760LMT). The ability to connect it to my iPhone's wifi hotspot for real time weather displays is another. Too bad it won't get here before we head out to the Tetons, Yellowstone, and Black Hills tomorrow morning...