Driving apps, whats your favorite?

tknopp said:
I guess I am old school and just use the one between my ears. :huggy:
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My wife uses navigation a bit but I do not use it at all. If I am going somewhere I do not know I look at a map ahead of time and can usually navigate 98% of the way without looking at the map again.
 
rockcity said:
be careful with the RV option... I tried it and others on my trip out west and it nearly doubled the travel time to destinations. And, it tried to take us down dirt roads with open range cattle guards. Not good for a 35,000 lb RV.

we started using Google Maps and spent a couple minutes previewing the routes and were very safe with the chosen routes via Google Maps.
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I downloaded it (Copilot GPS) and started playing with it when we were in the mountains last week. Ran it while we drove around several places in the Jeep. Even with the RV restrictions turned on, it tried to put us on 3 different pig paths and driveways.
 
kaiser715 said:
I downloaded it (Copilot GPS) and started playing with it when we were in the mountains last week. Ran it while we drove around several places in the Jeep. Even with the RV restrictions turned on, it tried to put us on 3 different pig paths and driveways.
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I don’t trust them. Most don’t have the user interface volume Google Maps or Waze has to learn and adjust. I found Google Maps to be much more useful and user friendly. Even without RV data input options, Google Maps was much more reliable and never once tried to send me down a 180* turn on a private road. It kept me on major roads and safe every mile of our trip. I never once had to adjust our route because I saw something unsafe while using Google Maps.
 
Can we all just agree though...

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Usually run Google maps. We are integrated with Waze at work for the roads so thats kind of cool but I don't use it. Once I drive to a new place once, I can navigate without it. Drives the wife crazy
 
I am happy with Waze, but revert to the Apple Maps app most of the time simply out of habit. When I’m in the truck, since it has CarPlay, I do like the cop notification deal when towing long distance. Bad thing is I can go to Harlan, AOP, Windrock and more on memory these days and just don’t use it as much.

But for work when meeting a client and going to job sites I use it almost daily.
 
I've been all over NC, SC, VA and WV and some point in time in my life.
I also have a great sense of direct and can pretty much wing it and find my way anywhere.
My wife runs the GPS in the Soul 100% of the time.
Makes her mad when we are going somewhere .... even new .... and she makes a turn or something following the GPS and I ask her "where you goin'?".

The biggest thing I use Waze for is alternate routes around traffic or to see how far the slow down is up the road.
 
Lizooki said:
My wife runs the GPS in the Soul 100% of the time.
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When i read this I truly thought you were referring to internal sense of direction. Moments later I remembered yall drive a Kia Soul and it did not mean what I thought it meant :lol:
 
A decade or so ago a friend/co worker paid me to drive his truck to somewhere near Ringgold Va. to pick up a half of a fine beef cow.He had a gps that had road maps and the route from his house and back. It was hilarious having Mr. T, AKA B.A. Baracus telling me, "slow down fool, you better turn right/left sucker, don't make me hurt you" etc. It was hilarious, after an 1 1/2 half I needed to piss and get something to eat and left the route. Mr. T was talking new shit about none stop as I left the route and until I got back on the route and I made a few more wrong turns just to hear what else he would say before I got back on it.
I'd like waze for a few years cause it alerts pretty accurately about wrecks, road work and times, speed traps etc. ahead but I think the Mr. T has been removed.
 
The E-logs in the our trucks is Google based, so Google Maps is the standard. No complaints or anything.
Same for me personally.
 
Google maps and youtube music. YT gets controlled through bluetooth, and google maps is on point with road closures and speed traps. I even use google maps when I dont need directions mainly for the speed trap alerts.
 
On a somewhat related note, I find it amazing how many people these days simply can not navigate without a gps. I understand you guys who say you keep maps running to alert you to backups and cops, but there are a lot of people who are solely dependent on their gps. In training delivery truck driver's I always let them use the gps the first week I ride with them, but after that I make them drive it by memory with me giving them directions if they get turned around. For what we do, a lot of the stops have cut off times or specific delivery windows and depending on the stops you have, you have to bounce around and hit stops in different orders every week. When they only use gps, I have found that they turn their brains off and have no awareness of where they are in relation to other stops that are only a few blocks away.
 
awheelterd said:
On a somewhat related note, I find it amazing how many people these days simply can not navigate without a gps. I understand you guys who say you keep maps running to alert you to backups and cops, but there are a lot of people who are solely dependent on their gps. In training delivery truck driver's I always let them use the gps the first week I ride with them, but after that I make them drive it by memory with me giving them directions if they get turned around. For what we do, a lot of the stops have cut off times or specific delivery windows and depending on the stops you have, you have to bounce around and hit stops in different orders every week. When they only use gps, I have found that they turn their brains off and have no awareness of where they are in relation to other stops that are only a few blocks away.
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My son is almost 16, and I have made it a point on several ocasions to have him navigate us someplace using a tablet w/o any cell/wifi access.... so it's basically just a digital map.
Exactly to prevent this, and make him learn his way around.
 
Google maps
 
awheelterd said:
On a somewhat related note, I find it amazing how many people these days simply can not navigate without a gps.
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I'm just waiting for the day that Canada invades Maine or Cuba decides to take Floriduh, and the military turns off the civilian GPS channels. There is still 4.5 months of 2020 left.
 
I have the friend, who ate a special gummy bear shortly before a 45 minute drive where GPS was needed. He was in our buddies truck, who’d set the GPS voice to Cookie Monster. Well we didn’t tell him about it, so about 20 minutes into Cookie Monster telling us where to turn he was finally like “is anyone else hearing Cookie Monster on the navigation” and we were all like “nah man, what are you talking about?” And he was like “I am 100% trippin my balls off right now. I swear I hear Cookie Monster” and we just let him think that for a bit cause we couldn’t stop laughing.
 
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