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Great review Clutch. Just discovered your channel. I’m still running the Dezl 770 so will be upgrading to the 1000. As you say use it as a tool, I always cross reference a new destination with google maps. Safe driving from the UK 🏴
You are amazing! I just started trucking and this is the GPS i bought but had no clue how to use it or its features. After this video i got alot of knowledge on how to do some things and a video to come back to when in doubt. Have a great safe day and again thank you!!
I gotta say I really enjoy your channel . I like the way you get right into what you have to say. No long drawn out introduction, you don't beg for likes, you don't even mention subscribers. This what a "trucker" Utube channel should be.
I just bought the Garmin otr 800 to complement my other Dezl ,so far so good .Thanks Clutch for your very informative and very articulate videos,cant wait for your next videos,hi Rusty
I got the otr800 and i didn't know if I was going to like the garmin gps coming from using randmcnally but I have to say the garmin has a lot more that you can customize to your liking
Good morning, Clutch. Personally, I save my truck maintenance info on Google Drive and many other important items. It's easy and always saved in the cloud. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for this. Your review actually made me go out and buy one. At around the 5:30 mark you mention needing to go back and redo your trip if you wanted to skip a waypoint. I actually found out how you can skip it without needing to do all that. On your nav screen, tap the 3 vertical dots in the bottom right corner of the screen, then tap edit route on the top, then skip next destination. Hope this helps and thanks for the review!
Clutch, thank you for the update. It is because of you video that I chose the Garmin OTR GPS. I found your videos very informative. So thanks again for posting them and keep up the great work!!!! I have just one question on this video, around the 4.49 minute mark you show your GPS and I was wanting to know how you got the screen to show all that info on the right. Like the direction, distance and so on? Yes this might be a newbie question but there it is. Thanks
I have the OTR 800, works great, but also have the Garmin dash cam, 65W, "OK Garmin" in my truck is like 2 women jealous of each other.....learned some new tools, thanks Clutch.
I’ve been tempted to buy it I just don’t feel like throwing out the 200 bucks for something I don’t really need but I’ve been tempted to just to try it to see if they’ve updated with the new rules
I figured out how to permanently avoid a route but how do I tell my GPS (DEZL 800) how not to avoid a route that Garmin mistakenly assumes is restricted for trucks? I know you are busy, so all help is much appreciated! I tried to shape a route to include a road that I knew was ok for trucks, but my Garmin refused to allow the route to go where I tried to shape it to go.
I’ve run into that problem too and I haven’t found a fix around it unless I just go into the settings for my truck and put them all back down to like a car or a lower the height limit or lower the weight limit or something sometimes that works just so I can use that route or I just simply drive the route and let it keep yelling at me until it figures out I’m not gonna change
I noticed on your video the 1000 would read the addresses for some of your destinations. I have the 780 and I wish it would read the address out when I'm getting close to a destination.
I’m new to trucking, I recently just got my CDL and i’m going to be starting in a couple weeks with a company as a regional driver and i’ve been looking at different types of GPS and i’ve seen in a review that this one doesn’t really navigate the bridge heights? Again, i’m new to trucking so I don’t know how exactly these GPS works. Btw AMAZING review!
The compass thing, even before you said anything, I was thinking to myself "it must be pointing north and the letter is your direction". Maybe it is because I learned on an old compass that the 'arrow' will always point north (generally), but maybe that is just me.
Yeah once he said that’s what it’s doing it made sense I was a Boy Scout after all so I used campuses many years and it made sense it’s just I thought it was pointing to the direction we were going initially
Very good comparison of the two, thank you. Is there any way to display weigh stations on your planned or actual route, or on the up ahead features on the dezl 780 that you know of? Thanks.
You can access the "shape" function directly from the main map. Touch the screen, a box on the top right will pop up, select it and the whole route appears and it's ready for you to touch and shape it You forgot a very important part. How to transfer the saved places from one Garmin to the other.... And it's so quick, through the Garmin Express website.... the transfer was lighting fast,, hundreds of saved places right into the otr 1000 I got this model after 3 years with the 770 . I've had the OTR 1000 for 6 weeks. I loved the 770 and I love the 1000 Just like the 770, the live traffic feature is excellent, the re routing is excellent, but unlike the 770, it shows you in gray the alternate route along with current route It shows you both, simultaneously, the distance left for next stop and final destination or choose other readings instead, like DISTANCE REMAINING. Worth the cost. But just like the 770. The voice command feature truly sucks, but I still give this product 10 stars out of 10 I don't have to rely on Google much anymore for traffic conditions the otr 1000 is very accurate and warns you way ahead of time. The weather function is fantastic, gives all you need, current situation and forecast for the area you're driving in as you go. The radar feature is fantastic You will see ( for example) where the snow storm or anything else is passing though and gives you a time lapse This is a very awesome product
Does the weather feature include forecast weather? I would love to see a unit like this show you your three day trip and whoops! If I go the suggested route I'll hit that weather front tomorrow at five....buuuut if I drop south on highway x (reshape!) I'll skirt by it after it passes through. It would be really efficient to route yourself ahead of time for those kind of things rather than just a few hours before the weather event.
It shows radar currently and slightly in the future. If u tap weather from main screen, it’ll show u a multi day forecast, but only where u are at the moment
@@ClutchTrucker Great. So if you're stuck somewhere, you'll know how much snow will accumulate while on your windshield while you sit. Meanwhile, if you had known the path of the storm when planning the trip two days ago, you could have changed your route, or used split sleeper to keep rolling, or whatever. The infrastructure is there in this technology; this sort of next level planning would be uber helpful for everyone, but especially rookies.
Hey do you know if the otr700 is the same thing just a different screen size? Or is it different features and everything? Im a delivery driver and I do a lot of driving in vermont and the main reason I want one is to avoid covered bridges that I cant fit under i know i can put my truck height in but will it route me around bridges I cant go through or will it just give me warnings they are coming up? Thanks! And great video :D
Just watch the video and it was great. I do have a few questions. On your saved trips you had IL1 & IL2. Was this put in by you or the garmen. Just wondering if you can customize the information, Putting in Shipper name, Date, and to and from . Last thing can you down load say a years work of trips on to your laptop, or maybe a larger memory card. thanks Charles
You can name the trips anything you want. And as far as saving them to a larger SD card or your computer I believe you can do that through the Garman Xpress app on the computer that you need to register and upgrade if you would like
True, or my headset. But I don’t like wearing my headset all the time, and I listen to audiobooks through the truck radio. The external Bluetooth speaker is working good for now.
Does it freeze up? My 700 does it often. Or when you hit rest area in route it will want to bring you to a different rest area then you hit. Happens a lot BTW awesome job on 800 miles
I bought this GPS but there is something I can't figure out maybe you can help, at the tractor trailer configuration screen, the number of axles is for the trailer only or total axles including steer axles?... Thx
Is this particular unit really good at Avoiding Truck Restricted Roads, Etc? I'm looking to purchase a unit thats great at Avoiding Streets That Don't Allow Trucks. Thanks, Clutch.
Still a good GPS three years later?? Fixin to get back into trucking and MIGHT this day can I've been looking at. Does this GPS still hold up or is there a newer better truck GPS out there now??
Hay Clutch, why is it showing you GPS coordinates for your final location in IL. I’m having a problem with my OTR800 when I customize the “up ahead” for TA and Petro it gives me GPS coordinates instead of city and states.
Question...Does the unit spec out routes that are condusive for trucks alone? ie: most GPS systems are best route and closest route. as we all know, we have a much different route to follow...curious if this unit distinguishes these routes? bridges, road allowances, best route.....???
I own few Garmin devices.Few MAJOR issues which nobody can fix or explain: 1. FREEZINGS. After few months of using,it becoming more and more worse(nothing more,apps or stuff instaled on it) After 9-11 months,it gets starting reboot yourself in middle of driving(imagine,in middle of big city,you became blind in 1 second,starting navigate looking to signs..) 2. STORAGE SPACE. Nobody can explain what is storage space using for...It has 8GB internal and its always 200Mb empty on it... Trying different ways to find all this heavy internal GBs (through device or PC)with information,and to clean useless files...YOU CAN DO NOTHING!! To prevent some childish comments,i would say,first few months,devices running great(so,no factory defects),not dropped,not hitted,every month updated... Take care of your money,even you spending fuel points(doesnt means its free). Make your own research before purchase(forums,sites,customers reviews.) There's no ideal devices,but just you can decide what weak sides you can live with.. Stay safe,colleagues!!
They’ve had quite a few updates and actually one that kind of ruined things but then they fix that I still don’t have the Samantha voice but apparently if I do a reinstall of the voices using Gorman Xpress I can get them back
When you're moving does the gps move with you at an accurate rate like Google maps or does it refresh your location every 3 secs and jump. I can read road signs but sometimes signs are in weird spots. Our company gps is garbage.
I currently have a Garmin 760 truck gps. But it has been starting to freeze and it won't update. Looking for a new gps. That new Garmin 1000 does it do traffic or voice without using data? My Garmin 760 does traffic threw a fm receiver.
The 780 was the last one that used the FM receiver the new OTR series only uses traffic through an app on your cell phone. The traffic does seem to be much more reliable and it really doesn’t use that much data
Does this thing ever do weird stuff like route you 100s of miles or so out of the way and back...just to avoid an area that it "thinks" is closed or weight restricted? For example, on an old a few years ago, if on I80 west from PA into OH, it would route me way up to I90w for a while, then back down to I80, instead of staying on I80... Anything like that?
One serious downfall of OTR series is using 'Route Edit' in cities. The zoom feature will not zoom down to the individual street name level. Garmin says that this how it's supposed to work as "trucks are supposed to avoid cities". I'm really disappointed in my purchase. TomTom Trucker does not have this problem. If your destinations are big cities downtown, DO Not buy Garmin. OTR is a wonderfu piece of hardware. If only the programming and the useless Dezl app were designed with truck drivers in mind.
In winter when there is snow and ice outside does Rusty have winter boots or a coat he can wear to stay warm? As a trucker how does one vote in elections? If you get really sick what happens if you are far from home? Have you ever actually gotten really sick over the years as a trucker? Thanks.
I usually looked on the back of my health insurance card for the website or customer service number to find a health care provider on route to my destination or present loacation. VOTING i always did early voting in person.
As far as question one Rusty just has to deal with it we’re not outside all that long for him to do his business so he has to be cold unfortunately I don’t have little doggy boots or anything like that. As for voting I try to always make sure I do the mail in ballots early I forgot this year so I don’t get a vote this time unfortunately. And as far as being sick on the road yes I have a few look back in my videos back in February when Covid started I had a bad recurrence of my necrotizing fasciitis I had to just find an urgent care that’s about my only option out here
I'm about to drop some money and thinking of getting the 10" screen. I could save a little and get the next size down but do you think the large size is worth it?
apologies if you already figured this out but I just found a way to put the Trip Planner on that main page that isn the map. if you go into the Apps and click and hold on the app, it'll select it and allow you to move it onto the main page. you can all remove those other dumb apps like the Garmin Elogs and Service History. you can also add widgets and whatnot but there doesn't seem to be many options
Help!!! The blue cookie trail of where I have been disappears after which appears to be after so many miles driven. Is there any way you have found to make it not do this?
If you want to do upgrades directly over Wi-Fi yes you need to use the Wi-Fi for that and if you want to use the browser for the Internet on the Garman you have to use Wi-Fi for that as well
I am wondering why it hasn't got much interest here in the UK. I might be interested but I don't know if the data it holds will be as good as it shows in your side of the world.
@@ClutchTrucker It truly looks really nice but I am a bit apprehensive in getting it. It is well known over here and I don't want to invest in something that might not use it's full potential.
sorry if someone asked this before but my scroll stopped working on my laptop My question Does this give you weight limits and bridge or overpass heights or do you need to program that in yourself Thanks Clutch
Great review Clutch. Just discovered your channel. I’m still running the Dezl 770 so will be upgrading to the 1000. As you say use it as a tool, I always cross reference a new destination with google maps. Safe driving from the UK 🏴
You are amazing! I just started trucking and this is the GPS i bought but had no clue how to use it or its features. After this video i got alot of knowledge on how to do some things and a video to come back to when in doubt. Have a great safe day and again thank you!!
Glad I could help
I gotta say I really enjoy your channel . I like the way you get right into what you have to say. No long drawn out introduction, you don't beg for likes, you don't even mention subscribers. This what a "trucker" Utube channel should be.
Thank you very much
Great video. Thanks for showing how to use the new features. I like the shaping feature.
Clutch thank you for the review and happy new year.
I just bought the Garmin otr 800 to complement my other Dezl ,so far so good .Thanks Clutch for your very informative and very articulate videos,cant wait for your next videos,hi Rusty
Woof
RM displays a route without tolls versus tolls. It also tells you the difference in miles between the two. I love this!
That shaping features helps say in snow or rain seasons that’s perfect to see other routs that is safer. Thank you sir fir this video review 🙏🏼🚛
Thanks so much Clutch Trucker!
I got the otr800 and i didn't know if I was going to like the garmin gps coming from using randmcnally but I have to say the garmin has a lot more that you can customize to your liking
That’s my favorite part about it is the whole customization
Excellent Review me personally I love Garmin GPS's the Garmin drive App that connects to your cellphone makes that GPS even better
Good morning, Clutch. Personally, I save my truck maintenance info on Google Drive and many other important items. It's easy and always saved in the cloud. Thanks for the videos.
Yes from now on I’ll be saving it in quite a few different places
Yes from now on I’ll be saving it in quite a few different places
Thanks for this. Your review actually made me go out and buy one. At around the 5:30 mark you mention needing to go back and redo your trip if you wanted to skip a waypoint. I actually found out how you can skip it without needing to do all that. On your nav screen, tap the 3 vertical dots in the bottom right corner of the screen, then tap edit route on the top, then skip next destination. Hope this helps and thanks for the review!
Someone in it did actually tell me how to do that a few months ago but thank you again for the info
Thanks Clutch, by far the best review of this gps. Also in comparison to previous Garmin series. I got the 700 as an upgrade to previous 580.
I liked the 760 well enough. Just like the bigger screen
@@ClutchTrucker You also got bigger trucks (and roads) than here in the UK ;-)
Clutch, thank you for the update. It is because of you video that I chose the Garmin OTR GPS. I found your videos very informative. So thanks again for posting them and keep up the great work!!!! I have just one question on this video, around the 4.49 minute mark you show your GPS and I was wanting to know how you got the screen to show all that info on the right. Like the direction, distance and so on? Yes this might be a newbie question but there it is. Thanks
Just tap the icon that looks like a clock in the top right of the screen
I have the OTR 800, works great, but also have the Garmin dash cam, 65W, "OK Garmin" in my truck is like 2 women jealous of each other.....learned some new tools, thanks Clutch.
The dash cam works pretty decent? I was contemplating the E-log as well! Not a lot of in person reviews except Amazon which people trashed it.
I’ve been tempted to buy it I just don’t feel like throwing out the 200 bucks for something I don’t really need but I’ve been tempted to just to try it to see if they’ve updated with the new rules
Great review 👍 I think I've made up my mind . I've had the same Rand McNally since 2015. Time to upgrade cause I love technology. Be safe
Totally did not know about the route shaping tool!!!!!! YES 👍
Route shaping at 10:35
Trip reset at 23:00
Nice overview on this Garmin 👏👏👏
Found a good deal on the OTR 800 so I bought it. It is way better than the 785 I was using. This one actually understands the voice commands.
Yes overall I think it’s a big improvement
Dang man 800 miles in a 11 hours!!!! Now that is trucking!!!!!
Av 72.7 mph thats an awesome hyway
I tried Nashville to elgin IL, 810 miles. It took me 11 hours and 20 min,I ran out of drive time.
Good morning Sir, very helpful as I pull oversize and overweight. Appreciate your review 🙏 ❤️
Thank you so much for that review. I enjoy the video alarm and because of your honest opinion I will by one. I love Your dog Great job man God-bless
Thank you very much
Great detailed review. Does it use mini USB, micro usb or usb type C charging ?
USB mini
Thanks for lot of knowledge about this new gps. Is there any processor upgrades in this device from otr 800.
I’m pretty sure the 800 and 1000 are the same. I think the difference is in the 700
Me also planning to switch to Garmin from Rand McNally :(. Thanks for the video, It’s very useful.
Thanks Bro!
Appreciate the video great video
I figured out how to permanently avoid a route but how do I tell my GPS (DEZL 800) how not to avoid a route that Garmin mistakenly assumes is restricted for trucks? I know you are busy, so all help is much appreciated! I tried to shape a route to include a road that I knew was ok for trucks, but my Garmin refused to allow the route to go where I tried to shape it to go.
I’ve run into that problem too and I haven’t found a fix around it unless I just go into the settings for my truck and put them all back down to like a car or a lower the height limit or lower the weight limit or something sometimes that works just so I can use that route or I just simply drive the route and let it keep yelling at me until it figures out I’m not gonna change
Thanks bud good info
I noticed on your video the 1000 would read the addresses for some of your destinations. I have the 780 and I wish it would read the address out when I'm getting close to a destination.
One upgrade on the new unit
I’m new to trucking, I recently just got my CDL and i’m going to be starting in a couple weeks with a company as a regional driver and i’ve been looking at different types of GPS and i’ve seen in a review that this one doesn’t really navigate the bridge heights? Again, i’m new to trucking so I don’t know how exactly these GPS works. Btw AMAZING review!
I’ve found none of them are perfect. But I prefer this one overall. You gotta still use your brain and watch for low bridges etc.
@@ClutchTrucker Oh that’s a bummer, do you have any rookie tips?
I had the Rand McNally TND740. Needs a better magnet. Then one day it just stopped working . Bought me a Garmin, so lets see how it works
Can you transfer all your saved locations from your old 870 to the new 1000?
Does the voice command have noise suppression can it hear you through the truck noise
I have to speak loudly, but it picks me up just fine
@@ClutchTrucker lol....loved when you kept yelling DOWN
The compass thing, even before you said anything, I was thinking to myself "it must be pointing north and the letter is your direction". Maybe it is because I learned on an old compass that the 'arrow' will always point north (generally), but maybe that is just me.
Yeah once he said that’s what it’s doing it made sense I was a Boy Scout after all so I used campuses many years and it made sense it’s just I thought it was pointing to the direction we were going initially
compass points magnetic north. which is moving now at an accelerated rate.
Hey trucker! Real quick, keeptruckin is up to date with regulation of service . So u can tell everyone its finally done
Great thank you I will do that in an upcoming video thanks for the information
Very good comparison of the two, thank you. Is there any way to display weigh stations on your planned or actual route, or on the up ahead features on the dezl 780 that you know of? Thanks.
I can choose to show them in the up ahead nenu
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Thanks for the help. Worked great🤗
Amazing rely I have got more info from this video 👍
Mr. Magoo could see that huge display. Garmin is my first choice in gps.
Road hog! Lol
You can access the "shape" function directly from the main map.
Touch the screen, a box on the top right will pop up, select it and the whole route appears and it's ready for you to touch and shape it
You forgot a very important part. How to transfer the saved places from one Garmin to the other....
And it's so quick, through the Garmin Express website.... the transfer was lighting fast,, hundreds of saved places right into the otr 1000
I got this model after 3 years with the 770
. I've had the OTR 1000 for 6 weeks.
I loved the 770 and I love the 1000
Just like the 770, the live traffic feature is excellent, the re routing is excellent, but unlike the 770, it shows you in gray the alternate route along with current route
It shows you both, simultaneously, the distance left for next stop and final destination or choose other readings instead, like DISTANCE REMAINING.
Worth the cost. But just like the 770.
The voice command feature truly sucks, but I still give this product 10 stars out of 10
I don't have to rely on Google much anymore for traffic conditions the otr 1000 is very accurate and warns you way ahead of time.
The weather function is fantastic, gives all you need, current situation and forecast for the area you're driving in as you go. The radar feature is fantastic
You will see ( for example) where the snow storm or anything else is passing though and gives you a time lapse
This is a very awesome product
Yeah I like it too, not perfect. But what is after all
Hit the three dots at the bottom right, exit hit edit Route then skip next destination
Yes!!!!!! I knew there had to be a way to do it thank you so much for that information I’ll put that up into an updated video
I had to call Garmin to find out how to skip to the next destination
Hey, I have the OTR800, it doesn't show traffic as red/yellow/green lines, is there a way to show that? Great video.
Mine does. Try refreshing it
Does the weather feature include forecast weather? I would love to see a unit like this show you your three day trip and whoops! If I go the suggested route I'll hit that weather front tomorrow at five....buuuut if I drop south on highway x (reshape!) I'll skirt by it after it passes through. It would be really efficient to route yourself ahead of time for those kind of things rather than just a few hours before the weather event.
It shows radar currently and slightly in the future. If u tap weather from main screen, it’ll show u a multi day forecast, but only where u are at the moment
@@ClutchTrucker Great. So if you're stuck somewhere, you'll know how much snow will accumulate while on your windshield while you sit. Meanwhile, if you had known the path of the storm when planning the trip two days ago, you could have changed your route, or used split sleeper to keep rolling, or whatever. The infrastructure is there in this technology; this sort of next level planning would be uber helpful for everyone, but especially rookies.
Thanks. Well done. But still don't know if I can transfer the saved locations from my 770 ... it reached it's limit after 3 years of saving places
If u can transfer to as card. It should
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Hey do you know if the otr700 is the same thing just a different screen size? Or is it different features and everything?
Im a delivery driver and I do a lot of driving in vermont and the main reason I want one is to avoid covered bridges that I cant fit under i know i can put my truck height in but will it route me around bridges I cant go through or will it just give me warnings they are coming up?
Thanks! And great video :D
The otr 700 does not have all of the features of the otr 800/1000. But it shoulda still route you around low bridges
Just watch the video and it was great. I do have a few questions. On your saved trips you had IL1 & IL2. Was this put in by you or the garmen. Just wondering if you can customize the information, Putting in Shipper name, Date, and to and from . Last thing can you down load say a years work of trips on to your laptop, or maybe a larger memory card. thanks Charles
You can name the trips anything you want. And as far as saving them to a larger SD card or your computer I believe you can do that through the Garman Xpress app on the computer that you need to register and upgrade if you would like
@@ClutchTrucker As far as sound you can pear the garmin 1000 to your radio and use the truck speakers
True, or my headset. But I don’t like wearing my headset all the time, and I listen to audiobooks through the truck radio. The external Bluetooth speaker is working good for now.
Does it freeze up? My 700 does it often. Or when you hit rest area in route it will want to bring you to a different rest area then you hit. Happens a lot BTW awesome job on 800 miles
Doesn’t freeze up, but still can’t get the Samantha voice to work
Wow I find this amazing how you can do all of this on a gps. How do they make all of this stuff it’s absolutely amazing
My next gps. 10" garmin
Thank you! Does it say how much the tolls will cost for a 3 axle truck?
Unfortunately no
Does it stay updated better than the dezl 780? As far as the roads when they change with construction and new truck stops?
About as lousy as before. None of them are perfect. I mainly use it for planning routes
How do you set up the cookie crumb feature to show where you've been so you can track back that way when you leave a customer?
It’s somewhere in the menu. I think it’s called “where I’ve been”
Thank you
Can you tell it where you want to turn when you get to destination? Like satellite view to see best way to enter store.
Unfortunately no
i wish you would have showed the weather part of this
Thought I had I’m almost due for another follow up review and I’ll make sure I include that then thank you
Can you put up who you called and what department you talked to , because I have some issues with my OTR 1000, thanks
I just called the main support number and the fellow I talk to was Kade.
I bought this GPS but there is something I can't figure out maybe you can help, at the tractor trailer configuration screen, the number of axles is for the trailer only or total axles including steer axles?... Thx
It doesn’t say, but I would go with total number
CLUTCH TRUCKER- you got any info on Dyno Nobel in your hometown?
That I don’t sorry about that
If you hit speaker and raise the volume on navigating the volume is real high
Yes I’ve tried that I just don’t think it’s as loud as the 780 was
I've called mr.Kade He said to download the English language and that Samantha would be there So I did that But now she doesn't say anything??
Do a video on TA points
I’ve got two of them that I’ve already done on using the TA Ultron points program but I’ll probably be doing a new one again soon thanks
Is this particular unit really good at Avoiding Truck Restricted Roads, Etc? I'm looking to purchase a unit thats great at Avoiding Streets That Don't Allow Trucks. Thanks, Clutch.
I’ve found the Garmin to be better than the Rand McNally on restrictions. Sometimes too restrictive. But I’d rather have that than the other way
Still a good GPS three years later?? Fixin to get back into trucking and MIGHT this day can I've been looking at. Does this GPS still hold up or is there a newer better truck GPS out there now??
1010 is the newer. But 1000 is still good
Hay Clutch, why is it showing you GPS coordinates for your final location in IL. I’m having a problem with my OTR800 when I customize the “up ahead” for TA and Petro it gives me GPS coordinates instead of city and states.
I r. You rd that too. I’m hoping they will fix with an upcoming update
What did you fine with the brightness level and being able to adjust that with voice command
I just go to settings and leave it on auto brightness and it seems to do fine for me
Question...Does the unit spec out routes that are condusive for trucks alone? ie: most GPS systems are best route and closest route. as we all know, we have a much different route to follow...curious if this unit distinguishes these routes? bridges, road allowances, best route.....???
It does a decent job. But none are perfect. Use it as a tool only.
How accurate is the Garmin 1000? Does it take you to places you can't fit or around ones that you can?
All GPS units do that at time. Treat as a tool, but never completely rely on it
I own few Garmin devices.Few MAJOR issues which nobody can fix or explain:
1. FREEZINGS.
After few months of using,it becoming more and more worse(nothing more,apps or stuff instaled on it)
After 9-11 months,it gets starting reboot yourself in middle of driving(imagine,in middle of big city,you became blind in 1 second,starting navigate looking to signs..)
2. STORAGE SPACE.
Nobody can explain what is storage space using for...It has 8GB internal and its always 200Mb empty on it...
Trying different ways to find all this heavy internal GBs (through device or PC)with information,and to clean useless files...YOU CAN DO NOTHING!!
To prevent some childish comments,i would say,first few months,devices running great(so,no factory defects),not dropped,not hitted,every month updated...
Take care of your money,even you spending fuel points(doesnt means its free).
Make your own research before purchase(forums,sites,customers reviews.)
There's no ideal devices,but just you can decide what weak sides you can live with..
Stay safe,colleagues!!
Any updates from Garmin?
They’ve had quite a few updates and actually one that kind of ruined things but then they fix that I still don’t have the Samantha voice but apparently if I do a reinstall of the voices using Gorman Xpress I can get them back
When you're moving does the gps move with you at an accurate rate like Google maps or does it refresh your location every 3 secs and jump. I can read road signs but sometimes signs are in weird spots. Our company gps is garbage.
It moves with u
I currently have a Garmin 760 truck gps. But it has been starting to freeze and it won't update. Looking for a new gps. That new Garmin 1000 does it do traffic or voice without using data? My Garmin 760 does traffic threw a fm receiver.
The 780 was the last one that used the FM receiver the new OTR series only uses traffic through an app on your cell phone. The traffic does seem to be much more reliable and it really doesn’t use that much data
Did Garmin ever fix it so you can change to voice on the OTR 1000? I liked the Australian voice I used on my 780.
Still can’t get mine to do it. Although some people have. One Ted that theirs does
Meant commented that theirs does
Right now I can't even get mine to say anything
Does this thing ever do weird stuff like route you 100s of miles or so out of the way and back...just to avoid an area that it "thinks" is closed or weight restricted? For example, on an old a few years ago, if on I80 west from PA into OH, it would route me way up to I90w for a while, then back down to I80, instead of staying on I80...
Anything like that?
Yes, unfortunately. They all do that. It mainly does it for traffic. That’s when I get con the cb and try to find out what’s really going on.
I got the 1000 for $100 off at the pilot in Racine/ Sturtevant, WI.
Can you show us how to turn on the Wi-Fi and the phone connection I don’t know how to go to that
I’ll look into it
maan i cant wait for a 32"
Lol
One serious downfall of OTR series is using 'Route Edit' in cities. The zoom feature will not zoom down to the individual street name level.
Garmin says that this how it's supposed to work as "trucks are supposed to avoid cities".
I'm really disappointed in my purchase. TomTom Trucker does not have this problem.
If your destinations are big cities downtown, DO Not buy Garmin.
OTR is a wonderfu piece of hardware. If only the programming and the useless Dezl app were designed with truck drivers in mind.
I run sound from my RM thru my trucks stereo system.
In winter when there is snow and ice outside does Rusty have winter boots or a coat he can wear to stay warm? As a trucker how does one vote in elections? If you get really sick what happens if you are far from home? Have you ever actually gotten really sick over the years as a trucker? Thanks.
I usually looked on the back of my health insurance card for the website or customer service number to find a health care provider on route to my destination or present loacation. VOTING i always did early voting in person.
As far as question one Rusty just has to deal with it we’re not outside all that long for him to do his business so he has to be cold unfortunately I don’t have little doggy boots or anything like that. As for voting I try to always make sure I do the mail in ballots early I forgot this year so I don’t get a vote this time unfortunately. And as far as being sick on the road yes I have a few look back in my videos back in February when Covid started I had a bad recurrence of my necrotizing fasciitis I had to just find an urgent care that’s about my only option out here
I'm about to drop some money and thinking of getting the 10" screen. I could save a little and get the next size down but do you think the large size is worth it?
I personally love the large size. I just wish Garmin would fix the voice issue and a couple other hiccups.
I think I'm gonna go for the 10" because there's nothing worse than trying to figure out if the exit is 168 or 16B
So true. I’m almost 54 years old and wear bifocals, the 10” definitely helps me in that department!!!
apologies if you already figured this out but I just found a way to put the Trip Planner on that main page that isn the map. if you go into the Apps and click and hold on the app, it'll select it and allow you to move it onto the main page. you can all remove those other dumb apps like the Garmin Elogs and Service History. you can also add widgets and whatnot but there doesn't seem to be many options
Help!!! The blue cookie trail of where I have been disappears after which appears to be after so many miles driven. Is there any way you have found to make it not do this?
I do t like the trail. I disable it. Sorry
They have them on sale right now for 599.00 at pilot…. Are u still liking yours … I’m thinking about getting one
I like it. It’s not perfect. But works for me
Does it list truck friendly Walmart's? RM does.
Even the Wal-Mart's on RM is wrong as time goes on
I'm supposed to sit through 7 ads through this thing? 2... MAYBE 3... BUT SEVEN? Stopped when after 3 minutes, "I CAN'T GO FOR THAT...NO CAN DO."
I’ll go back to that video and uncheck “during” video. I try to always do that. Some of my older ones I didn’t know to uncheck that
Are there certain features that require wifi access on the Garmin?
If you want to do upgrades directly over Wi-Fi yes you need to use the Wi-Fi for that and if you want to use the browser for the Internet on the Garman you have to use Wi-Fi for that as well
Does it tell you how many miles you went in each state for IFTA purposes?
Yrs
Yes
Does it have eta? It shows what day and local time you’ll arrive?
Yes. It calculates based on your speed, but does not take into account your breaks
Does garmen give you a estimated price you would pay for tolls?
I think it does. But I don’t rely on it
I don't know where you got your Garmin but mine doesn't calculate nearly as far as yours. Takes minutes sometimes
Got it at Iowa 80. Turned off slot of the background stuff too
Wait i swear i just saw ur review on this. U must of done it on the otr800
I did my initial inbox in an initial use video first and this was the whole complete video
I am wondering why it hasn't got much interest here in the UK. I might be interested but I don't know if the data it holds will be as good as it shows in your side of the world.
Yeah that’s a good question I have no idea
@@ClutchTrucker It truly looks really nice but I am a bit apprehensive in getting it. It is well known over here and I don't want to invest in something that might not use it's full potential.
sorry if someone asked this before but my scroll stopped working on my laptop My question Does this give you weight limits and bridge or overpass heights or do you need to program that in yourself Thanks Clutch
U put your truck size in and then it accounts for all of that
Is the 800 and the 1000 the same features just bigger ?
As far as I can tell yes
Is there a feature to avoid all tolls?
Yes
Can third party apps like samsara for logs be downloaded?
That I don’t know. Sorry
@@ClutchTrucker is there an app marketplace to download apps like a tablet?
Does this brings Lifetime map upgrades or you constantly have to do it yourself?
It alerts u on the Capp of major updates
@@ClutchTrucker so it’s 100% recommended?
Hey mate, not sure if this has been asked? But is there a way to watch Netflix, Prime Amazon or Stan related apps on these new Garmins.
Good question. I know I was able to watch one of my TH-cam videos on it once. So perhaps
Could you possibly do a short vid showing how you managed to set it up to do this please
Yall. heard him guys... he wants the big one🤣
😂
Can you choose which email address pops up? Have 3 addresses and would only want ONE for work to pop up.
That I don’t know. Sorry
Where can I get camera's for this thing
From Garmin.com