Trucker Path: Truck GPS & Fuel Reviews

This is not a secret that this is the first app many of as CDL holder get once we get on the road. Check the WS status, history, reviews, parking spaces. Everything is wonderful. However I don’t understand the new parking system. It just doesn’t make sense. For a longer time all we had is empty, somewhat full, and full. Which was fine. But the this new way of selecting parking availability came up when we can check even more in depth, more increments in showing how full the parking is. Which is better. However why do these increments work only when updating the status but it still show the “old” way of empty, somewhat full, and full. For example, if most people selected 3/4 full when updating the status and someone, who’s looking for the parking, decides to check the status it will show him “full” or completely red. Well, it doesn’t make sense. When I update the status I didn’t intend to show that it’s “full” I intend to show “3/4 full”. In other words the updating system and the status system should look the same. So when one is looking for the parking, it would be possible to see that parking space is 95% full, not just red. For instance, (real life) there are around 10 parking spots on this huge track stop. Let’s call it 97% full. If enough people mark it 9/10 full, it will be visible. But it it will just show “red” (full) it’s useless for people in need of parking and it’s just interpreting it wrong.

To review any establishment, weigh station, etc. you must now choose a star for the place you are reviewing to allow you to post. They changed that in an update but just glad to be able to review. I just wish they would somehow let all users know it because the reviews have definitely dropped off unfortunately.

Why would I pay when people can no longer review places?! Reviews are getting scarce since the update. Since the update if you don’t pay for the premium version you can update weigh stations as open or closed but can no longer comment in the reviews if they are inspecting or other to notify other drivers. This means meant less reviews. Even if I decide to upgrade to the premium so that I can review them I still won’t be getting the same feedback as people that would normally review of inspecting or other things are going on can no longer do so if they are not paying for the premium service. This apples to restaurants, rest areas, parking etc. REVIEWS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE FREE OR PAID THAT HAS TruckerPath. That assures the premium subscribers are getting their money’s worth out of it. Very disappointed in the change. There are many ways to benefit than taking review privileges away.

In my opinion, I believe, thus far, trucker path app is the best gps around, as of now. But, lately the screen has been freezing a lot, it’s getting to be very frustrating, please work on that. Secondly, the one major route that needs to be updated is the route to New York via George Washington bridge. Every time I use TruckerPath to go to New York City, it takes me hours around through I 87, etc. I believe that the gps doesn’t route me through I 95 George Washington bridge because of the low clearance numbers. New York clearance is different than other states, they measure from the bottom of the trailer to the top, everyone else measures from the bottom of the tires. So if the George Washington bridge is marked 12’10 clearance, that means truck wise about 13’10. So, I implore the trucker path crew to please work on the New York City routes and update them. Lastly, I wish you guys could affiliate with the wave gps or even the google maps , that would definitely make TruckerPath the best, I would definitely, as a trucker, love to pay for that. Please consider my suggestions as a trucker path subscriber and supporter, thank you.

There is no secret that TruckerPath is a must have for new and old timers alike. Offers truck routing, you can check where all the truck parking is, and availability as well as what weight stations are open and diesel prices and much more. Very good app it has helped me a lot. Use it daily. My only suggestion to the developer is to add another tab when you click on a icon on the map (such as a truck stop, parking, weight station etc) after reviews. They should add like a question tab or something like that. On the reviews people are always reviewing places 1 or 5 stars just to ask “can anyone update the parking?” Without actually checking the place out leading to an unfair review. That extra tab should be organized by date and time for the question and then have a reply section under it so someone can answer the questions instead of leaving a random unfair rating.

Add a window in the corner of the map to indicate my current location by mile marker and I'll give you 6 stars. I have TruckerPath loaded and running full time in my truck using an old cell phone that is hotspot connected to my current cell phone. It's set to show all the Love's and Pilot fuel stops, along with all the weigh stations. It's nearly perfect...if only it identified my location by mile marker so that I know in a second where the condition of interest is in order to better communicate the news to my fellow drivers over the CB radio, and to more accurately communicate my own breakdown location to my fleet manager.

I bought TruckerPath. as an up to date GPS to navigate my semi and 53’ trailer. At first I was happy with navigation, but found challenges in app. use.

First I was on Metro(LG Stylos 6) and map update lagged, and seeking to realign map of find rest areas, truck stop, etc. just could not keep app. operating without lagging.

Now I have AT&T with iPhone 12Max Pro too. The other day I lost all navigation due to app. update needed 24 hrs. plus after I needed navigation of this paid subscription. Also TruckerPath. wants constant feedback on status of lots where I am at and I have never been able to access that info for a stop I am trying to make. Still having app. lagg with 5G!!!!!

Suggestions:
1)allow user option to turn off ASKING/FEEDBACK for lot information “OFF”. I want an app. that I am paying for to work for my needs before I am distracted to provide information I am not able to use myself.

TruckerPath. is wanting me to contribute info.(i am not against), but I want guidance and functionality of app. as I have paid for.

2)CUSTOMER SERVICE WITHIN TruckerPath .

I will not renew TruckerPath. the $100 I could have invested toward a Garmin, not dependent on a connection, developers, and customer service.

This is an ok app. but needs user reliability improvements. Being an over-the-road driver, too much extra effort in user to provide into. to products paying for #1 is a distraction, but also a frustration not wanting to mitigate in an already busy day...

KV

The last two updates have locked out TruckerPath . It will not open at all. It was a huge problem last update and this update hasn’t resolved anything except causing it to hit home screen faster. Was beginning to start locking out free users prior to these last two updates, so I’m guessing that y’all slammed the nail on the coffin for us. It used to be a helpful app, now it requires full payment of any services rendered. (When it actually works, that is!)

Update. I’ve fully updated my iOS and TruckerPath still locks out, but you can get some access now. Although it Puts ads covering the entire screen and makes it dangerous to use while driving. Navigation doesn’t work anymore without a gold subscription. To be fair though, it never really worked to begin with. The developers must think everyone is completely stupid. They took all the free information and decided to charge everyone for it. Even the weight station information isn’t correct. Horrible app and developer support is trying to smooth you over to purchase it. No thanks, I don’t need a sandpaper dill.!

Okay so I absolutely love TruckerPath!! I use it every single day throughout the day. But one of the reasons I use it is to see if I want to eat in the truck or at a truck stop or restaurant somewhere. Like I have my favorites around the country and I’ll sometimes plan to stop at certain places.
Well months ago, there was an update that made it harder to tell which restaurant was actually at the truck stop. And now with the new update, you can’t see what restaurant is at the truck stop at all!! It doesn’t even show it on the restaurants list!! I could honestly care less most days about what’s around. But I do want to know what is at the actual truck stop! Please fix this!
Also, where it says pet friendly, laundry, gym, etc.... You should add tabs for like vape shop, barber shop, and tattoo and piercing shop! There are some truck stops that have those and it would be cool to know which ones by looking at TruckerPath !

I still think this is the best trucking up Around. Unfortunately there’s not very many good ones, So that’s not saying much.

TruckerPath has an OK navigation system. I live in Newport Tennessee and they don’t even have my city listed. I also can’t type and addresses, it’s only for well-known destinations. I wish they would add more.

Also, basically if you aren’t on the interstate or a major state road, you’re probably out of luck.

I mainly use TruckerPath for checking waste stations, which I can get access to in the free version. This leaves no incentive for me to buy TruckerPath . Also there are other apps that allow you to to do the same thing.

On top of that, $100 a year is kind of pricey. I understand why they are doing it and it is probably helping them improve their navigation system. But if Google maps can give you a navigation system for free, then why does this version cost $100 if it’s not nearly as good?

If you Drive trucks for a living and then it may be worth it for you. But in my case I only drive trucks to haul equipment around, and there is no option for a cheaper subscription if I only use it a few hours a month. So I’d be paying too much. I would happily pay $100 and even more if the navigation system was actually worse what I’d be paying for it.

For crying out loud, it doesn’t even list my city in Newport Tennessee as an option, and that’s my home base.

Love the basic app. Been using it for a few years now... would be great if more drivers were honest and didn’t report lot full when it’s mostly empty. Would also appreciate if drivers weren’t using app to hook up with other drivers.... but I guess that’s the world we live in.

But I do feel compelled to say that the changes to the weigh station reporting are really bad. I used to report when I drove past a station, but now you ask too many questions... takes my eye off the road for too long. It’s one thing to tap yes or no... but the changes you have made are dangerous. Now I just decline to report every time... and the guilt trip message pops up... it’s almost like I have my Jewish-Italian bubbe (grandma) in the truck with me!

Go back to a yes or no report and I’ll participate.

As a normal gps it’s fine. I would say it’s no better or worse the google maps or Apple Maps. The extra features rarely worked. One day it stopped alerting me to weigh stations (no settings were ever changed.) and I was never able to get it back. It however never missed a chance to ask me 3-5 questions about every weigh station it didn’t tell me about…

I’ve had several gps/nav issues. One day it couldn’t find Joliet IL, with full service. Another day I was able to 45 minutes off a 75 minute drive by making a normal left turn ( in a small town in ga it wanted me to take a right, go up a blocked, take a right, go up a block, take a left etc etc about 25 times.)

Overall it would be fine, if it were free, but I paid 15/month and got basically google maps, that’s too much for features that don’t work.

You might have your reasons but I’m sure they don’t stand up to my opinion! I am not making an account and the fact that I can’t post reviews as a result just really hurts the community. I think you should undo that part of these new updates. That is not the trucker path I know and love and I will not comply! As far as the rest of the stuff TruckerPath is getting quite good! Distances are very accurate and now count down the miles to a selected POI instead of having to tap for an update! One little bug I still see is when I have a selected POI and I pass a weigh station and TruckerPath asks if it’s open or closed I tap the appropriate response (ex. Closed) then now my POI will show a red “closed” status instead of parking criteria. This requires the user to tap off and back on the POI. Not as big a deal as needing an account to post a review but it has been ongoing for a long time.

I use TruckerPath everyday and it was outstanding 5stars before the last update. Now routing function is almost unusable. Directions option is no longer available while in routing. You have to go back out of your route and into search mode to get the directions icon to reappear. Then once you get it to send directions to google maps anytime you come back into TruckerPath the screen zooms out and your stuck trying to find your stop again. Not to mention when the route zooms out the screen is so jammed with the new “bold” icons you can’t hardly see where you are on the route. I called tech support to see if I was doing something wrong and his answer was you need the subscription to get that feature back. Now I’m paying for TruckerPath and routing still doesn’t have an option for directions. I’m really looking forward to the next update to hopefully erase the last update so this can go back to a 5 star app.

This was an amazing app, I don’t know what happened recently, the new update is HORRIBLE !!!! The first 4 days of the update the gps wouldn’t navigate a thing, I tried redownloading and even restarting my phone (I have the latest iPhone and WiFi and high speed data), it was the GPS. Good thing I can navigate an atlas. Now it works but the gps doesn’t shut up !!! Every .2 miles it says what’s next and “detected congestion” is something the GPS says every .1 … YES .1 of a mile, I’m going to delete TruckerPath , it’s terrible get a Garmin or something (I got rid of my Garmin for this, but this is just ridiculous), and yes I paid full price for all the features of TruckerPath. If it’s not broke don’t fix it, I’m not sure what the point of the recent update was but please get rid of it, it’s that bad that my 5 star review went down to a 1, not even a 2. As a truck driver I cannot have my gps acting like this, It’s UNACCEPTABLE !!

When I got TruckerPath, I use to get trips that were maybe 20-50 miles over the miles that I would be getting paid. I was okay with that. But now, I get to use TruckerPath, and ALL of my trips are hundreds of miles over the amount of miles that I’m getting paid. It happens when I use the truck routing settings. No matter how many times I mess around with those settings, I can never get TruckerPath to give me a route that isn’t 200+ miles more than what I’m getting paid. The routes just look lazy and lousy. I get that TruckerPath can try to get you out of going through routes without construction, but when it costs us a lot of money to go through some of those routes, it’s not worth it. I’m going to keep using TruckerPath until I can afford a garmin GPS. I’m very disappointed, I really liked TruckerPath when I got it. I may still use it to find truck stops, but I won’t be paying for a membership anymore.

I’ve used TP for years. But now, current version is automatically upgraded with a Congratulations notice that you’ve been chosen to use the new beta version. You cannot override the upgrade. The only way to revert back is to delete TruckerPath and reinstall. I’ve done that dozens of times but within 24 hours the user is forced to use the beta version. The user is given an option to reach out to support to revert back. ALL requests go unanswered.

Why not use the beta version? It is full of errors and problems and not as effective as non-beta release. The route path line disappears every time a scale or truck stop status pop up appears. There is no way to view details of route options. Truck stops and parking isn’t accurate. Many options previously available are only available with paid subscription. Why pay if support is non-responsive, TruckerPath is riddled with flaws, in inaccurate information?

I have been using TruckerPath for years. it always seemed great except for the navigation took me to places a big truck should never be.
I got an iphone ten when it came out and had major problems and had my phone exchanged under warranty four times. the back got very hot just below the camera and the screen flashed from light to dark and more. so I got an iphone 12 pro max and had the same problems. I had my iphone 12 exchanged once so far.
I just recently noticed the only time my phone gets hot and the screen flashes light to dark is when I use TruckerPath. also siri opens itself and so does my camera. I deleted TruckerPath and haven’t had any of these issues since.
I tried to contact the developer in TruckerPath but couldn’t find a link. Apple should investigate this because they had to give me 5 new iphones because of TruckerPath.

My biggest complaint with TruckerPath is the fact that we have three reporting options “lots” “some” and “none”. We need to have some more options in there. Generally “lots” is exactly how it sounds. But then “some” covers the entire spectrum from less than “lots” to one remaining spot.

You never know what “some” means and if that’s an hour old you’re “shooting in the dark” so to speak. I’d like to see “lots” and “some” be the top two and then something like “low” and “few” with few having a designation for less than maybe 3 or 4 spots? And then of course “none”/“full”

The other issues are minor, but still need to be addressed. There are a lot of truck stops where reviews say that the place doesn’t exist or it’s only a fuel stop. There needs to be an easier way to get non-truck friendly places removed. And it would be nice to have an emblem designating fuel only.

There also needs to be a way to flag reviews for removal that ask for parking updates, leave parking updates, ask for fuel prices, or leave fuel prices. They aren’t helpful and flood out real reviews. Sometimes, people will vote a one star just because they want parking updates. And that’s not right.

It’ll point you to truck stops and rest areas, but the parking availability notifications are at the will of whatever driver feels like updating them at any given time. They still don’t have a better system than “many” “some” and “full” for available spaces. “Some” spots means very different things at a 10 space gas station versus a 300 space truck stop. Try to write a review and their Thought Police read it before they allow it to be posted. If they find anything objectionable, instead of censoring or just rejecting the post altogether, they’ll edit it as they please to remove whatever words they deem objectionable and post it as is, even if it no longer makes sense. No way I’m going to pay $100 a year for a few extra features

There’s an old saying of “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”. Well, with the Trucker Path paid subscription, I find that the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results to be a more accurate description of my experience.

I paid a yearly subscription for the gold membership and it only worked for two days! Now TruckerPath stopped working and I can’t sign in. Keeps telling me user name and password don’t match. I try the “forgot password” feature on the sign in page and all I get is the page recycles right back to telling me the user name and password don’t match.

I have talked to tech support numerous times (the most recent time I was on the phone for one straight hour with “Jason”, but nothing changes. I still keep getting booted off and have to deal with tech support each time.

Well I have come to the conclusion that I’m throwing in the towel and demanding a refund on my subscription fee. Trucker Path used to be a valuable tool for drivers and it used to be free. But now that they want to be just one more entity with their hand in our pocket, TruckerPath seems to have
too many flaws that just isn’t worth dealing with anymore.

(Update review early January 2019)
They brought back the ability to route via other gps/mapping apps and also allow you to again copy/paste coordinates (locations) of truck stops & POIs. Thank you!
I run Google Maps routing for it’s great traffic monitoring and other things, while primarily using my TND730 for my primary external GPS.

I had stopped using Trucker Path for the most part due to the previous bad update, but now I’m back. (In December I went back to using Allstays Truck/Travel) Trucker Path is once again a great go-to app for the professional driver.

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(Previous early December 2018 review)
WTH did you guys do to TruckerPath!? I’m a professional driver. Why can I no longer route to truck stops and other locations with Google Maps?! Why can I no longer copy latitude/longitude of different locations and paste that into other apps?!

For the past couple years Trucker Path was my favorite app. No longer. You guys started screwing it up about 6 months ago when you went to a subscription based model. I was almost thinking of trying a subscription until you removed one of the most important features I mentioned above. The only other thing TruckerPath is good for is parking availability history...or are you going to remove that next? So disappointed!

TruckerPath was better then perfect yes it needed a few tweaks but this new bs you updated with “route planning” is garbage. When I click direction I should be able to snap right to my navigation and you can’t do that anymore there is also no where to copy the address and paste it in my navigation. You took a great feature and ruined it with your “route planning” that doesn’t even have turn by turn direction or an option to start the trip and it snap to navigation. I am a premium member of TruckerPath and pay monthly to support the great work you have done in the past but I will go to the free version and no longer support TruckerPath until this is fixed. No sweat off my back I have a 8 pro rm that works just as good finding truck stops. The only difference is I don’t see a parking update. Please fix and I will give 5 stars but until then 1 star

I use this religiously. Great app helps me trip plan.
One thing I found I have my phone side ways, length wise. Your app will open with the logo correctly no problem but as soon as the map opens it doesn’t turn. Only way I can get it to spin is to open a few spots and the info for the place opens right so when I close it the map is magically spun the right way.
Also this has a lot of blue in it I find it difficult to find that small blue dot that’s my location. A flag, a big red semi icon something to see yourself amongst the sea of icons. I have to scroll out move the circle to another location see where I am.
This is if you return to TruckerPath after leaving it.
This isn’t a problem when you first open it and use it. It’s upon as I stated returning it’s very hard to see where you are especially if your moving.
Thanks great app great info just a few things I believe

First, let me point out I use the HELL out of TruckerPath. I love it.
But

Recently, I’ve noticed the distance to a given stop along a selected route is incorrect. At least as far as driving is concerned.
The total route distance, when I chose it, is correct. And it shows me where I am, accurately enough. But.. for example: I’m currently in Cabazon, CA. I route to Denver. Overall distance is correct, but distance to Gallup, NM ( about the halfway point on this route) is about 100 miles short. ( 470 as opposed to the more accurate 570- along the same route. I’m comparing with other mapping software and my venerable Rand Mac)
It’s not a consistent distance. After some experimentation over the past week, I suspect the distance is “great circle “, or, at least, the shortest distance between two GPS coordinates.

And, yes, I’ve been updating TruckerPath . I’ve power-cycled the phone. I’ve shut down TruckerPath and restarted from scratch. Even uninstalled it.

The only other issue is: I can find no way to
Send y’all feedback from within TruckerPath itself. But that might be me