Garmin RV 760LMT any Usage Findings

Our coach is parked for a couple more weeks, so I put the RV 760 in the Jeep to become familiar with it. I have figured out that when creating a "Route" in Garmin's Basecamp software and sending it to the GPS, it becomes a "Trip" not a "Route".

If you create a highly modified "Route" in Basecamp, the GPS will not recalculate it and the "Trip" will follow it quite nicely.

Once I got that distinction through my head, I think the RV 760 and I will get along just fine.

Waiting for a bean bag mount for the coach dash board. New menus are different than the Nuvis, but I'm getting used to it. Seems fast and the screen is very nice. It also appears to know about lots of campgrounds that are not in the standard map POIs. When you plug it into Basecamp, they show up there as well as the GPS.

A new GPS is always an adventure ...

I'm getting my Garmin today and will immediately put it to the test (as soon as I put in the parameters, etc!)

I'll report back here later today!

WoodGlue

Had ours for three weeks now all traveling so far impressed with rv and camping features and implementation. Glad we got it routing is also very good have not used base camp yet estimated travel time is amazingly accurate.

I used Garmin GPS before but now I'm using 7" Rand McNally and I think it is a much better GPS. Rand McNally has been making Maps for Traveling for Years and the 7720 GPS is superb, it does not announce upcoming Roads and Highways that are not used in your Travel, stores and uses important RV information such as Higth, With, Length and Weight information incl. Propane gas, Speed limit Warnings, Multi Stop routing, Camp grounds, Truck Stops and Travel Centers etc. The Rand McNally Gps is quick in finding Satellites and is easy to setup. We love it.

What I really like is at the bottom of the screen, it ALWAYS shows what road you are on.

Bucky Badger wrote:
What I really like is at the bottom of the screen, it ALWAYS shows what road you are on.

Which model?

Arrgh, my review will have to wait until sometime later this week. I need to take the free map update and it's a 3 hour file!

WoodGlue

Pirate wrote:

Bucky Badger wrote:
What I really like is at the bottom of the screen, it ALWAYS shows what road you are on.

Which model?

The Rv 760

Has anyone with the new Garmin RV760 tried routing through a road, tunnel or bridge with propane restrictions? We have heard that there is no setting for propane on the new Garmin RV GPS but I am wondering if they just built that into the routing software for automatic routing around propane restricted roads, tunnels, etc. - since most RVs have propane on board. This is the only thing holding me back from buying the new Garmin. (And by the way to the poster with the Rand McNally - I bought one and it routed me onto a road with a 7' height restriction and I had it set to route for a 10 foot tall motorhome. The Rand got returned the next day!)

You know what would be nice is if GPS's had a "direct route" mode. To me that would cure a lot of the routing issues..We have "Less Gas" "Fastest Time" or "shortest Distance" Most people use fastest time, sure the GPS most likely save us 4 seconds in that mode, but the direst route would be nice