Of course all that is "work"-more than most are willing to do. I also try and find alternatives nearby "just in case". I then search for gas stations, verify they exist, andĬreate waypoints for them. What I do these days is estimate an area in a route, based on my vehicles MPG, where I'll need to fill up. In your case you're using truck stops so that is probably less of an issue. I don't know how many times I've searched for a gas station in a unit only to find that it is no longer there.
I then include that in my route(s).Īnother issue, especially with gas stations (in the US), is that they go out of business often. When I create routes I actually use Garmin's POI's (coordinates) to find it in Google Earth, sometimes using street view, and create a waypoint using the actual coordinates. The problem with using Garmin map POI's is that they're frequently "off" and sometimes non-existent. I don't think any of my 3 units allow that to be done. Hence, making the GPS actually recognize an "arrival" (or at least knowing how it does it) is still relevant. Seems via-point arrival would have a certain margin on it, so one does not have do guess it's idea "known location" and drive over that spot in the road? ) Until I manually went to route review and hit Go for the next stop, it never gave up thinking I should make a U-turn. The RV760 spent the next 20 miles yelling at me to circle around and go back to Flying-J, because it did not realize that I had in fact both arrived and stopped. In my case, since I fuel with the big-rigs, I take the truck entrance, not the standard auto-entrance, and the RV760 never realize that not only did we arrive, but we were had been stopped there for a while.Īnother RV-GPS, running in parallel with the same general setup, saw and announced the arrival, and then skipped on to the next stop by itself. Some size circle around the known location. The via point obviously has a certain reported GPS location in the POI database (which can theoretically differ between GPSs), but what is the "size" of the via point for the RV760 when it comes to recognizing arrival? Theoretically, that "point" should be recognized with a certain margin. Simple route from point A to point B, with a via point stopping at a Flying-J truckstop for fuel.
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