PC Miler PCM430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Truck Navigator
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at
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| PC Miler PCM430 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Truck Navigator |
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| Manufacturer: Transplant GPS, Inc. |
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| List Price: $399.99 |
| Sale Price: $248.00 |
| Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days |
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- GPS for commercial truck drivers, with truck routing via HazMat, Toll Avoidance, Shortest, Height/Weight Restricted, National Network
- Dock-to-dock directions throughout the United States and Canada; multi-point routing (for up to 50 stops) with Route Optimization
- 6 million Points of Interest (POIs), including truck stops, rest areas, and weigh stations
- 850,000 miles of truck restrictions
- 4.3-inch TFT widescreen touch display
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 Has treated me very well so far |
| Review Date: September 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: LongHauler1968, |
| I got this in August from Dieselboss and it already had the new maps on it. It definitely made a huge difference once I set up my truck and road profile properly. It came with the settings on "default" which drove me like a car until I read their quick-start guide and saved a profile that matched my truck's height, weight, length properly. It also has a further setting for favoring the larger roads (interstates) and telling it to NOT use local and smaller roads. I agree with other reviews about the speaker because once you have all of your truck noise it is difficult to hear what it is saying. I bought an FM transmitter and plugged it into the headphone jack and now it's nice and loud out of my stereo speakers. I don't need the voice out on open, long stretches of highway anyway and only turn on the FM transmitter to hear it when I get close to my destination. The new maps also seem to have the points of interest (truck stops, weigh stations, WalMarts, etc) very accurate. Nearly every truck stop I punched up was current and took me right to it. All-in-all it is no replacement for common sense of course, but has been very valuable so far in keeping me from going out-of-route and on time. I bought the Garmin 465T previously and though that one seems to have a few more raw addresses in it, this one has been much more accurate in keeping me on proper truck routes than the Garmin was. |
Reference Tool Only
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| Review Date: May 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: D. Lipsitz, |
Bought the PCM430 at a local Pilot Truck Stop on sale. From the start, it had to be charged fully before use. Setup was a bit difficult as there was no manual in the box.
Unit has failed to operate on many occasions, relies solely on battery for power, though can be charged while in use. If the battery dies, the unit dies as well.
Maps are seriously outdated (by about 10 years), despite so-called updated application software. Customer addresses I've been going to for many years do not show up at all, and unit won't accept their addresses.
It does handle HazMat routing okay, does alert for low bridges fairly accurately, but needs serious update for general truck routes. Unit also needs to tell the difference between gas stations (for cars only) and truck stops.
Use this for a tool only, do not rely on it for actual routing and planning. For what it does, it should be less than half the price. |
unacurate maps and freezes up
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| Review Date: December 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: bud1, |
I bought this right when it came out in december 08 while with my trainer. I used it for my first solo trip and then the next 11 months after. It just stoped working last week. The low battery warning came on even tho the unit was plugged in. It powered off and now will not turn back on. Just replaced with a garmin 205 (99$ at walmart) that so far is impressing me. The garmin is nice because when looking at the directions it will tell you the exit numbers you will be taking to compare them to directions you get on qualcomm. The PC miler did not do this, also the pcmiler would freeze up and worst of all the maps weren't accurate. Many times it would show the ramp to change highways on the right when it would be on the left, or tell me to take 495 when it was really 95 it wanted me to take. The worst was a run to brooklyn I did..This thing got so damn confussed the route it gave basically went in circles all over, so I shut the navigation off and just looked at the map to figure it out on my own.
Besides those problems which are bad enough there were many other things I don't really care to remember. Two that stand out right away..with the copilot you have to manually pick the time zone you are in.. they list like 80 time zones and you have to scroll threw them all. Every time the battery dies you have to do this. Another is everytime you want to dim or brighten the screen you have to exit the whole navigation program. Then go back to it and reprogram your route after. The garmin automatically knows what time zone you are in at all times so you dont have to do anything. Also it has an automatic mode for the screen brightness. It will dim the screen slightly at dusk and then dim it all the way when the sun goes down. All this while still navigating I pretty much give up on truck specific GPS systems, Just buy a cheap garmin for cars and cross reference with your atlas while you use it. If the garmin puts you on a parkway or something just add a waypoint or two until it keeps you on the roads you want to be on.
****update** the garmin for cars didn't cut it for me. wouldn't let me put in multiple waypoints and would put me on parkways and stuff alot. Got the 465t garmin for trucks, used it for the last 7months or so and its been great, best gps for trucks ever made. Just dont totaly rely on it for NYC |
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