From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 22:01:44 MST
EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> By the way...Today my new truck goes "into production"
>
> W900B Kenworth....550hp cat.....18sp Fuller Transmixer.....3.55 rears...23.5
> tall rubber...270 in wheel base......72 inch Aero cab....and lots of
> goodies....like on board air scales (weigh gross as well as axel
> weight)...dynamic wheel balancers ...fair to middling stero system...cell
> phone...and possibly a Garman GPS Color Street Pilot....(I dunno...the screen
> shure is tiny)....
My sister drives a Mack, I bought her a Delorme GPS receiver that plugs
into her laptop computer, nice big screen. With Street Atlas 7.0, it
should be less than $200, and has umptyjillion "points of interest"-
basically you have a stripped-down yellow pages built in, with truckstop
references under the "transportation" logo.
The POI's can be searched for within a radius up to five miles (as well as
by name), and can be filtered by various types. Useful gadget, probably
cheaper than a handheld standalone GPS (provided you have alaptop to plug
it into, but you should be able to find a used pentium model cheap these
days).
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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