GPS Systems

I have a Rand McNally 720, great GPS. My 720 needs to have the battery replaced ($99.99 for non warranty repairs).

I have recently been trying out the VZ Navigator that is provided by Verizon. Very small cost ($3.99/month), has car & truck modes. Works pretty well, except when it loses signal, takes a long time for it to reset itself.

So for short term until you can afford a true GPS, if you have Verizon as your cell phone provider, that might be a possible stop gap solution for you.

Ernie

Or you pass the truck entrance before your GPS says "arriving at your destination, on the LEFT," which is actually an empty lot. While YOUR destination was 100 feet behind you, on the RIGHT.

Which is why the first dozen times I had packages delivered to my house I had to go 1/2 mile up the road to the empty hunting cabin to get them off their porch. The FedEx guy was following his GPS which showed my house being where the hunting cabin is but there's no house number on the cabin so they assumed that must be it. Finally I had to wave him down one day and point out he might actually want to look at the big, reflective numbers on the side of the mailboxes as a way of helping him determine which house is mine. DUH!

My friend hooked me up with the TND 710.... Is that a good one??

My friend hooked me up with the TND 710.... Is that a good one??

It is the earlier version of the TND 720. I know of several folks that had one, it was good when it worked. Seems Rand McNally had lots of problems with that one electronically. When it works, works great.

Ernie