The IntelliRoute® TND 700 is Rand McNally’s largest and most advanced truck navigation unit

Overview

The IntelliRoute® TND 700 is Rand McNally’s largest and most advanced truck navigation unit. With a 7-inch, high-definition color screen, the device enhances readability and usability.The high-definition screen on this device provides amazing clarity and enables drivers to see more map detail. Featuring larger buttons, enhanced map data, and a louder speaker, the TND 700 significantly improves the in-cab experience while driving. Waypoints, a handy calendar, and a notepad are just some of the new features that have been added to the growing list of everyday items that help truckers.

Other features, like driving timers and maintenance reminders, are all designed to help make a trucker's daily life more efficient.

Built exclusively for professional drivers, the IntelliRoute® TND 700 incorporates the input and hours of testing by real truckers. The device was built to help truckers in each phase of their work day from planning to driving to reporting. With 35% more truck routing information than other GPS units, the device leverages Rand McNally's proprietary truck data derived from more than 70 years in the commercial transportation industry.

Features included with the TDN 700

Exclusive Rand McNally Truck Navigation

• Searchable truck stop information from the Trucker's Friend® National Truck Stop Directory
• Proprietary Road Data - Rand McNally's proprietary road network database incorporates 70 years of reasearch and experience to produce industry leading data
• Truck-Specific Routing - Customize routes using your own truck's length, width, weight and height plus any hazmat information
• Waypoints - Perfect for adding an interim stop. Just touch an address on the map and add it to your route as a new destination
• RoadWork™ Construction Updates - Route around construction, or add time to your route. Includes rural and city areas in U.S.
• Multi-stop Routing Optimizer - combine up to 10 stops and have the route sorted for the most efficient routing.
• Customize Routes and Warnings - create detours, avoid road segments, receive warnings for upcoming hazards
• Junction View will provide key information at challenging intersections along your route. A screen will appear that shows the sign which your route follows and the lanes that you can use to stay on your route.

Trucker Business Tools

• The Trucker's Friend® The National Truckstop Directory® includes important information about truck stops along your route
• State/Province Mileage Breakdown - Track miles driven in every state in the U.S. or province in Canada for organized bookkeeping and fuel tax reporting
• Commercial Grade Address Book - Organize and search addresses by company, state, and more. Address book is capable of holding thousands of entries
• Calendar - Organize the day, week, and month with this built-in calendar
• Notepad - Jot down a quick note during a stop. The notepad feature is perfect for capturing ideas in one convenient location
• Quick Planner - Analyze mileage and drive times to pick the most profitable routes
• Motor Carriers' Road Atlas - cross-reference to the page and grid of the Motor Carriers' Road Atlas, and review key resource information
• Timers & Logs - Quickly calculate and monitor driving time and time on duty
• Calculator with Metric Converter - Enables quick math calculations and conversions in either Standard or Metric units

TND 700 Features for Use By the Professional Driver

• Enhanced Text to Speech Directions -includes spoken street names with turn-by-turn directions
• Enhanced Speakers- twice the power of consumer GPS devices so drivers won't miss a direction because of cab noise
• Car Mode - At the touch of a button, the TND™ can also be used in standard passenger vehicles
• Give Feedback - Rate truckstops, read what fellow truckers thought of places on route and alert Rand McNally of a road change*
*requires Windows PC and internet connectivity to upload feedback

Main Menu

The sprocket icon in the lower left had corner of the main menu gives you quick access to actions related to your current location or route. This button will give you detailed information about your current location, including your address and latitude/longitude. You can make adjustments to how your route is calculated or manually add in detours for roads that you do not want to drive.

For instance, While navigating a route:
To create a detour just tap the sprocket button in the lower left hand corner.
The Location Route Options Window displays
Tap Detour
The Detour Window displays
On the left side of the window, tap the number of miles on the route to be avoided.A new route is calculated and the Route Map Window re-displays. Detour is now activeYou can also select any point on the map, and avoid it permanently, or until you select that segment again and un-avoid it.

To enter your truck profile on the TND

From the TND 700 Main Menu: going to the menu options and click on FEATURES. Under the Features menu, select the Route Processing Options option. Within the dialogue box, the user may click on the Truck-Type Routing tab. Here is where you can view the option choices for truck specifications. One can specify Trailer Length, Truck Width, and Trailer Configuration.Tap Truck Tools Truck Info, Tap the sprocket button in the lower left hand corner

Tap the up arrow and down arrow to view the options
Tap the option to be set
Enter the new information
Tap Back to save changes


To obtain warnings and advisories on the TND 700

Tap the Truck Tools button, then tap Warnings. Here you can adjust warnings related to trucking usage, such as end of your Driving day, On Duty day and weigh stations. For warnings applicable to both car usage and truck usage, check in Preferences for such things as posted speed limits, state borders, & toll roads.

To update your TND 700

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Connect your PC or laptop to the internet and open TND Dock. Press the "Update IntelliRoute TND . " button to receive any updates to your device or the TND Dock.

Key Features & Benefits of IntelliRoute

With more than 6,695,000 miles of truck attributed roads and 35% more commercial truck restrictions than other solutions, IntelliRoute® is the transportation industry's leading truck routing product.

• Truck-specific address-to-address routing for the United States and Canada
• Avoid out-of-route (OOR) miles with accurate routing for truck specific configurations and HazMat
• Avoid accidents and tickets by using roads and bridges that accommodate truck height, weight and length
• Superior Data - IntelliRoute® contains 35% more truck restriction data than the leading data supplier
• Save Money - Studies show that accurate optimized routing can reduce transportation expenses by up to 7%
• Find the most cost effectiveness routes by using up-to-date Toll Cost information
• Bypass Road Construction projects with IntelliRoute® RoadWork - updated every 2 weeks
• Many features in one package - Tolls, Spreadsheets, Batch Processing, Road
• Construction & Free Quarterly Data UpdatesM

Features included

• Commercial Vehicle Street-Level Routing Database that includes more than 6,695,000 miles of U.S. truck attributed roads with 24,300,000 uniquely attributed road segments
• Superior Geocoding - Precisely find addresses, postal codes and other points. More than 4 times more accurate than the leading truck routing competitor! (requires Dock2Dock)
• Accurate truck-specific point to point routing and mileages for the United States, Mexico and Canada
• Dock2Dock Routing- Get address-to-address, truck specific driving directions
• RoadWork™-"Construction Update" enables you to access up-to-date, nationwide construction information
• Tolls - Find the most cost effectiveness routes by using up-to-date, truck-specific Toll Cost information
• Industry Standard HHG & Practical routing determines the shortest or fastest route
• Trailer Specific Route Options - Get a custom route based on legal or physical
restrictions that apply to specific trailer configurations (48', 53', HAZMAT, Double, Triple)
• Optimized Multi-Point Routing - Determine the shortest or fastest route across multiple-stops
• Hub Routing- Analyze your shipping lanes by calculating mileages from one point to many destinations
• Lowest Cost Routing: The Quickest Route will determine the time most efficient truck usable route based off of Rand McNally's proprietary designated road network database. IntelliRoute's Lowest-Cost routes, will calculate an itinerary that will take into consideration user input values such as: Cost of Time per hour, Maintenance per mile, Fuel Efficiency (MPG) , and Price per Gallon of fuel. Lowest Cost will also balance toll prices versus the overall fuel consumption. Both options may also have truck-type attributes such as 53' trailer length and single, double and triples configuration.
• Detailed Route Itinerary & Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) calculations
• Canadian Postal Codes-Efficiently dispatch throughout North America with Canadian postal codes for thousands of additional routing points
• State Mileage Summaries for IFTA reporting
• Avoid or Prefer Roadways- Tailor routes by avoiding or preferring roads or segments of a road
• Enhanced Hazardous Material Routing - Get optimized routes that are specific to any one of ten hazardous materials classifications
• Input routes using city names, SPLC codes, ZIP codes, highway junctions, and latitude/longitude coordinates, in addition to military installations, airports, rail yards, and ocean ports
• Microsoft Excel Integration- Use custom Excel formulas to query mileages
• Batch Processing- Automatically processes tens of thousands of routes
• Import Locations- Upload and store custom points to streamline operations and reduce manual entry
• Fuel Network Manager - Control fuel expenses by creating and routing to your preferred fuel retailer
• Truck Stop Directory that includes over 9,000 truck stops, fuel stops and weigh stations
• Area Search - Find back haul opportunities or analyze your supply chain searching a custom defined area
• Robust API's for easy integration into transportation or logistics management systems

IntelliRoute® Operator’s Manual

We have included a link to the IntelliRoute® operator’s manual so in case you have questions about this unit or IntelliRoute, you can obtain additional detailed information on the actual operation of the TND 700.

Rand McNally TND 700


Specifications:


Introduced: March 2010
Display size: 7 inch
Display type: high-definition screen


What's in the Box:


Rand McNally IntelliRoute® TND 700
Windshield Mount
Truck Charger with extended length cable
120/240V home charger
USB cable
Quick start guide


TND 700 Owner Reviews


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By A. O Sandness, July 25, 2010


This is a great truck GPS. I've tried others and nothing seems to come close to the Rand McNally TND 700.


Excellent screen size and resolution. The audio is loud enough to be heard over road noise and the purr of my Kenworth/Cat engine. I've used it for the last 8,000 miles or so and it has only glitched once. Just restarted it and it picked up on my route right where it should have. The exit lane screen has been spot on every time and gives me plenty of time to get my rig into the appropriate lane safely. I also love the multi-stop route planning and use it a lot. Updated regularly, it has shown me all the construction zones and has a feature to allow me to detour around them. Creating Groups and storing locations in them is a breeze so I can separate warehouse from store locations, etc.

I'm running an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 7 OS for the dock and update. The USB port DOES charge the GPS, at least with my laptop, despite the warning in a previous review. Even if it didn't, the supplied 12-volt and AC chargers take care of getting the battery up to speed.

My complaints are relatively minor:


Battery life when it is unplugged isn't great. However, since I use it plugged in in the cab 95% of the time, it doesn't create too much of a problem.


The announcement of state borders coming up is nice but it doesn't tell you (or show you on the map display) what state you are in and/or going into. Again, a minor issue because I know where I am but all my other GPS units had this feature. For $500 smackers, I don't expect this kind of slip-up.

There is a Micro SD slot on the unit and I bought a card for it. Unfortunately, the manual has absolutely no information on using it. The only reference is on the page showing the physical features of the unit, showing the position of the slot. Annoying.

Clean up the minor issues and this unit rates a solid 5.


By Dclownfish03, June 21, 2010


My brother is a trucker and pre-ordered this. He was out on the road when it arrived, so he asked me to charge it, update it, and play with it. FUN! I am not a trucker, but from what I hear from my brother, the tools on this device are awesome. It looks like it would be very helpful for him. The thing is huge, a 7" screen! Overall, this seems to be a great tool.

My problem with it is that it cannot update. I have a brand new computer running Windows 7 64 bit. It's a Dell Studio XPS 8100 (i5 processor). After reading on forums and contacting Rand McNally, I have learned that Windows 7 does not send enough power to the USB ports to allow the TND 700 to go into "connected" mode when it's plugged in to a computer. Supposedly this is a problem that occurs mostly with laptops and some Dell systems ("Dell Latitude or Inspiron PC (it may occur on other models as well)"). Rand McNally send a very helpful email with some solutions to the problem, though it sounds like they are still unsure of all fixes or what causes the problem. I am disappointed that a brand new device does not work with a brand new operating system, though that seems to be the nature of all things now-a-days. I am hoping that it will update on my brother's XP laptop. we'll see when he gets back home.

TND 700 Owner Ratings


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