Just so someone doesn't get the wrong idea, the main road through Eureka Springs is a truck route---for small delivery trucks! So technically the gps is not wrong to send you that way, but you'll only do it once. I did it once in my 27' Pace Arrow and that was the last time.
Steve,
Can you play with how you specify your vehicle in the setup and see if you make the GPS think you are bigger? That way it might not send you into town. I really, really, really hate to back up when driving so its important to me that the GPS takes the big roads.
I will start testing mine to see the same thing.
Cheers,
bill
Bill,
Thanks for the heads up. I have configured it as a big vehicle. The road through Eureka Springs is a truck route, but it is just one you have to know not to take----so I don't blame the gps.
Steve, once you reconfigured, did it still take you on a small truck route? If it did, then what good is the configuration?
Chester,
I always had it configured for a large RV. I'm guessing a truck route is a truck route to the Garmin. This is just one of a few truck routes that is not good for a large truck or RV. Not to say you can't make it through on this roadway, but I wouldn't take it.
I escorted my household Allied 50'ft moving van through but it was a squeeker.... Most trucks go through early morning before the tourist show up.. not much choice unless you go through MO...
We took a sightseeing trip to Branson with Forest & Cindy. Let the Dezl 760 lead the way. Did a good job of routing. Has some really neat features like "sharp turn .4 mi ahead". Well that one got used a lot! Also warns of steep grades. Recalculates a route very quickly and doesn't waste time trying to get you to turn around. Obviously the large screen was very readable and the volume is adjustable. Never lost satellite reception. Identifies all roads correctly, including my driveway which it calls "unpaved road". So far I'm quite impressed.
I also have great reviews. Used in the RV & Auto mode. I particularly like the split screen when coming into a freeway split or exit showing the lanes and pictures of the actual signs. The posted speeds and traffic is a great help also. The voice command doesn't seem to speak Texan yet but is learning.
It pronounces Missouri as Misery.
I placed the gps on top of and in the middle of the dash. Front of coach is 10' inside my building and gps is approximately 2' inside the coach. Building doors were open about 2 feet wide. Unit was able to grab onto a signal and calculate a route. Signal strength was 4 of 5 bars. Unit has a much better built in antenna than my other two gps's. Anxious to try the new unit out in the Newell.