Magellan RoadMate Commercial Truck GPS Navigator 9270T-LM (RC9270SGLUC)
- Truck specific routing, customizable by vehicle dimension and hazardous materials restrictions
- Free Lifetime Traffic Alerts provide real-time traffic information along your route to help you avoid delays
- Free Lifetime Map Updates ensure that you have the most recent maps available, for the life of the GPS navigator
7-Inch GPS navigator, designed exclusively for commercial truck drivers
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Raquel
September 8, 2016My husband, a long distance truck driver, hates it. Got rid of it on the second day.,
My husband was happy about getting the Magellan. Liked the idea of the bigger screen and had hopeful expectations from it. He planned to keep using both with alternating information from each GPS. (Much like what we did last year when I rode along with him and brought my camper version Magellan – mostly for my own use – but it proved useful as a backup and information gathering.)
Well, it was a very short affair with the Magellan Commercial Truck GPS. He loathed — LOATHED — the touch screen. It didn’t work with simple touch no matter how hard, he had to always use his fingernails. This became his main pet peeve.
Ignoring that, he went on to just use the Magellan because he knew I needed to write a review about it.
Two Days.
It lasted only two days before he was ready to pull his hair out and throw the GPS out the window. When I asked him about it, he got irate very quick and told me that the Magellan, while beautifully named, it a total piece of junk. He hated the touch screen, the interface was not useful to him, and then it took him directions that were completely different and way off the beaten path which only added time and distance to his trip. When you’re trucking, this adds up to more wear, tear, fuel, and a waste of precious time.
For him, the Magellan trucker GPS was a waste of time and effort getting it to work for him. He’s sticking to his not-so-great Garmin until we can find something more suitable for him.
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|R. Woodworth
September 8, 2016Magellan trying to jump on the “Trucker GPS” bandwagon… with no legs,
Then it died, and I decided to upgrade to the Pro Roadmate, this 9270T-LM. And I am disappointed.
-It’s Slow!
I’m 90% sure that they just took all the innards from the 4″ 3120 and slapped them into the 7″ 9270T. It takes exactly two seconds from when you hit a button to when the button gets pressed onscreen. Every zoom, every letter you type, every menu, two second delay. It gets pretty frustrating pretty fast. One Mississippi, two Mississippi…
-The maps are years out of date
I applied the latest map updates, but Magellan seems to not have done to their info this for quite a while. I’d say about 40% of the lane-assist info is wrong, and entire interchanges and even highways are miles off or even missing. So don’t drive through anywhere that’s done construction since 2009 and maybe you’ll be fine
-The “truck features” are near useless
This is disappointing. This is the main reason I shelled out $350 for this thing, when my last GPS cost $80. When you fire it up it asks you to set your logs and input your truck’s weight and dimensions… good, good. But then it just doesn’t know what to do with this information. It still routes me down just as many prohibited streets as the cheapo, but even worse, it seems to think that A LOT of regular old roads are prohibited… and will try its hardest to drag me off of them. “MAKE A U-TURN, MAKE A U-TURN, MAKE A U-TURN” Combined with the slow slow processor, it will get locked into this panic attack and you have to hard boot it to shut it up.
My company has a Chicago-area dropyard for trailers, and this piece of crap refuses to route me to it. It will flash an error message “THIS ROUTE IS PROHIBITED” and delete all my changes! WTF?! Alright Magellan, I won’t go there at all. Yeah right.
-The routing is… a little fudged up
If I had a nickel for every time this thing told me to exit the freeway, drive around on the backroads, and then come back 10 miles down, I’d have some nickels. It will even tell me to take the offramp and then come back down! And that’s not mentioning the nervous breakdown it has if you pull over at a stop… trying to route you 20 miles off through the town, then persisting with that even after you continue on.
If you read this review and still buy the 9270T-LM… why? Get a real “Trucker GPS” or get a cheapo, this thing isn’t worth $50.
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