Garmin GPS

Don’t waste your money, I have one and it sometimes sends me down winding roads with tree branches overhanging the roadway at window level or even down a dead end road. Garmen, never again.

Your phone and tablet give you all you need.

Retired JSO wrote:
Don’t waste your money, I have one and it sometimes sends me down winding roads with tree branches overhanging the roadway at window level or even down a dead end road. Garmen, never again.

Not even close to my experience

Retired JSO wrote:
Don’t waste your money, I have one and it sometimes sends me down winding roads with tree branches overhanging the roadway at window level or even down a dead end road. Garmen, never again.

I've had the opposite experience -- Google Maps has tried to send me under some low bridges, but the Garmin has warned me away. I usually use both -- Google Maps traffic is hard to beat, but I prefer the Garmin's UI and display... and the RV specific route warnings. It's also comforting to know that the map will always load and can plot a route, whether or not I have cell service. I don't even carry a paper map any more.

I don't expect any GPS to warn me about low hanging branches, just permanent restrictions like bridge clearance, weight limits, etc.

I have the Garmin 770RV. It has some nice features but I don't trust it to take me on the best route so I also use my I phone with Waze.

Retired JSO wrote:
Don’t waste your money, I have one and it sometimes sends me down winding roads with tree branches overhanging the roadway at window level or even down a dead end road. Garmen, never again.

do you have it set for FASTEST route or SHORTEST route? FASTEST is best in order to avoid your experience.

corvettekent wrote:
I have the Garmin 770RV. It has some nice features but I don't trust it to take me on the best route so I also use my I phone with Waze.

none of us should implicitly trust any GPS. always review the route before departure.

A GPSr should be uses for amusement purposes only and never,never trust it 100%. The Garmin is the bet unit going

People have driven into rivers, off cliffs on dead end end roads because XYZ told them too. I believe most if not all of those devices tell you not to rely 100% on them.

Pretty much - at least for Western U.S. travel - what you can rely on is:

1) A Garmin unit kept CURRENT at all times with respect to it's operating system and maps,
AND
2) a Garmin unit kept set to FASTEST navigating mode,
PLUS
3) these super comprehensive map atlases for each Western U.S. state -> https://www.benchmarkmaps.com/atlas