Truck Stops Plus
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Welcome to Truck Stops Plus, the home of the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template, which adds over 10,000 pinpoint accurate truck specific POIs to Streets & Trips, and now also the home of the new TSP 2010 POI Database, which is our new POI database of over 10,000 truck specific POIs distributed in .gpx, .csv., and ov2 file formats suitable for uploading into most popular brand models of GPS devices. From now on when you purchase our Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template, you will also receive our TSP 2010 POI Database together in one zip folder. Hence, whether you use Streets & Trips only, a standalone GPS device only, or both simultaneously, Truck Stops Plus has you covered because you get both great products for one great low price downloaded together in one TSP2010.zip folder. New for 2010
With today's skyrocketing fuel prices nothing will help you minimize out of route miles better than the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template combined together with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint, or the TSP 2010 POI Database combined with your standalone GPS device. If you are serious about saving money, then our Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template and TSP 2010 POI Database are absolutely indispensable tools you can't afford to be without! Product Overview for the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template The Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template transforms the popular Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint routing and navigation GPS software into easy to use trucker’s software. The Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template is an add-on template that replaces the standard out of the box templates that comes with Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint with a special template called the Truck Stops Plus 2010 that contains more than 10,000 trucking specific points of interest, including more than 4600 truck stops, which includes all of the major franchise truck stops plus more than 3600 independent truck stops. Also included are more than 2200 Wal-Mart Supercenters, more than 2100 rest areas, turnpike service plazas, and picnic/parking areas, 929 weigh station locations, 112 Blue Beacon Truck Wash locations, and new for 2010 all of the Speedco locations in the USA. The Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template is a first of a kind high tech truck stop guide and Wal-Mart Supercenter locator tool on steroids, and together with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint it will handle all of your routing and GPS navigation chores. It’s everything you need plus much more! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template you can search and route to any of the points of interest contained in the POI database, such as the nearest truck stop with truck scales, in a small fraction of the time that it takes to do it the old fashioned manual way using a truck stop guide and a Motor Carrier Road Atlas. As a matter of fact, you can search for every trucking specific point of interest located within a 50 mile radius of your present location or an anticipated location with a single right click. Or you can choose to search for every trucking specific POI along your entire route. Searching and routing to truck stops and other trucking specific points of interest has never been made so easy. Plus we all know that sometimes finding a truck stop can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template you can drive with complete confidence, since you will never struggle to find another truck stop ever again! Because each point of interest is professionally geocoded with precision in its correct and accurate location for pinpoint accuracy, Microsoft Streets & Trips and MapPoint will guide you there while giving you precise voice guided and visual turn-by-turn directions so that you can spend more of your time paying attention to the road and concentrating on being safe, and less of your time trying to find hard to find truck stops that you may never be able to locate otherwise. If you are a newbie truck driver new to the truck driving industry, this is an absolutely indispensable tool for you. . But that’s not all you will be able to do! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template you will also be able to relegate your Motor Carrier Road Atlas to backup status, because you will be able to easily check for restricted routes and low clearances right from the convenience of your laptop screen without an Internet connection, making it not only much easier but many times faster as well. In addition, you will never use an antiquated Truck Stops Directory ever again, nor will you want to. Also, while you are traveling in GPS navigation guidance mode you will be able to see over the horizon for miles ahead in advance! With the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template you will be able to see all oncoming truck stops, Wal-Mart Supercenters, rest areas, turnpike service plazas, weigh stations, etc. contained in the template for miles ahead in advance as you are traveling down the roads of America and now in Canada as well. You will never check a truck stop directory or Motor Carrier Road Atlas again while you are driving! It’s like having your own personal advanced high tech radar system right there in the truck with you. Thus, if you work for a company that doesn't allow pullovers of any kind except for emergencies, the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template would be an absolutely indispensable tool to have. In addition, finding pertinent information on each of the truck stops is as simple as right clicking them on the map, because each truck stop is cataloged so that you can easily check its name, its specific location information, whether it is a small, medium, or large truck stop, whether it has a truck scale or no truck scale, whether it does major repairs, minor repairs only, or no repairs at all, and whether or not it charges for overnight parking. Right clicking the Wal-Mart Supercenters will not only give you the exact store address but also the telephone number as well. Further, right clicking the turnpike service plazas will also give you their name, their specific location information, truck parking size, and food offerings. It’s everything you need at the click of a button. Trucking never made so simple! Further, our truck specific database is far more accurate than the POI databases contained in standalone so-called truck specific GPS devices because our POI database has been professionally geocoded with precision to their correct and accurate locations for pinpoint accuracy. Whereas other POI databases, on the other hand, have been geocoded by addresses, and more often than not POIs geocoded by addresses are off anywhere from several hundred yards to even miles in some extreme instances. For professional drivers of commercial motor vehicles pinpoint accuracy is of critical importance because inaccurate POIs can potentially force professional drivers to drive many miles out of route looking for a safe and legal place to turn around or worse. Not to mention that our truck specific POI database is the only POI database that has been specifically created, designed from the ground floor up, and tailored especially for professional drivers. Combine the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template with Microsoft Streets & Trips or MapPoint and together you have the best GPS routing and navigation solution available for professional truck drivers available today! Product Overview for the New TSP 2010 POI Database Our new TSP 2010 POI Database contains more than 10.000 truck specific POIs covering both the USA and Canada including more than 4600 truck stops, which includes all of the major franchise truck stops plus more than 3600 independent truck stops. Also included are more than 2200 Wal-Mart Supercenters, more than 2100 rest areas, turnpike service plazas, and picnic/parking areas, 929 weigh station locations, 112 Blue Beacon Truck Wash locations, and new for 2010 all of the Speedco locations in the USA,. and is divided into 12 categories containing files in .gpx, .csv, .and .ov2 file formats that are suitable for uploading into most popular models of GPS devices. The first category is labeled Truck Stops, which contains our entire truck stops POI database combined with our turnpike service plaza POI database in the various aforementioned file formats, and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to truck stops and turnpike service plazas. The second category is labeled Wal-Mart Supercenters and will contain our Wal-Mart Supercenters POI database in the various aforementioned file formats, and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Wal-Mart Supercenters. The third category is labeled Weigh Stations and will contain our weigh stations POI database in the various aforementioned file formats, and most popular GPS models will enable you to set these up to sound an alarm at a predetermined distance to notify you of weigh stations you are approaching along your route. Also, this database can be used to quickly search for weigh station locations. The fourth category is labeled Rest Areas and will contain our rest areas and parking areas POI databases in the various aforementioned file formats, and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to rest areas and parking areas. Most popular brand GPS models will also allow you to set these up to sound an alarm at a predetermined distance to notify you of rest areas and parking areas you are approaching. Of course, rest areas have public facilities, while parking areas do not. The fifth category is labeled Truck Wash & Lube, which contains our Blue Beacon Truck Wash and Speedco POI databases in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Blue Beacon and Speedco locations. The sixth category is labeled TAs, which contains our TA POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to TAs only. The seventh category is labeled Flying Js, which contains our Flying J POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Flying Js only. The eight category is labeled Loves, which contains our Loves POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Loves only. The ninth category is labeled Wilco/Hess, which contains our Wilco/Hess POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Wilco/Hess only. The tenth category is labeled Road Rangers, which contains our Road Rangers POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Road Rangers only. The eleventh category is labeled Pilots, which contains our Pilots POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Pilots only. The twelfth and final category is labeled Petros, which contains our Petros POI database in the various aforementioned file formats and this database can be used for quickly searching and routing to Petros only. Further, each of the aforementioned categories will also contain an individual icon (.bmp file) to designate the various POIs for uploading on GPS models that have that capability. Additionally, the POIs will also give you the truck stop names, their specific location information, whether it is a small, medium, or large truck stop, whether it has a truck scale or no truck scale, whether it does major repairs, minor repairs only, or no repairs at all, and whether or not it charges for overnight parking. The Wal-Mart Supercenters will give you the exact store address and the telephone number, and the turnpike service plazas will also give you their name, their specific location information, truck parking size, whether it has a truck scale or no truck scale, and the food offerings. To upload our TSP 2010 POI Database into your particular GPS device, please see the product documentation that came with your particular GPS model or please visit your GPS manufacturer's web site. Get rid of your antiquated truck stop guides and directories and get the TSP 2010 POI Database for your GPS device instead, it contains every thing you need plus much more, and it is about a hundred times faster. Hence, whether you are a Microsoft Streets & Trips user, MapPoint user, or standalone GPS user, now Truck Stops Plus has you covered! New! Try before you buy. Download and evaluate for free: The Truck Stops Plus Demo for Microsoft Streets & Trips.
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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 is here! Download the trial edition and run it for 60 days free. Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 (For info on how to import any data into the Truck Stops Plus 2010 Template you may have personally added to previous versions of the Truck Stops Plus Template see our FAQ webpage.}
Study: GPS Could Save Trucking Industry $53 Billion Motorola recently conducted a survey and turned up some notable results regarding the use of GPS:
"Field mobility workers in the transportation and trucking industry are experiencing difficulties such as locating stops, reducing fuel expense, and improving on-time performance resulting in a drain on financial and manpower resources of their organization," said Jim Hilton, director of field mobility, Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Enterprise Mobility business. He ain't kidding. Everyone understands how miles per gallon equates to money spent or saved getting from here to there. For those who make a living on the road, saving MPG can mean life or death for the business. GPS and location-based services are one way to help keep costs down. Source: www.informationweek.com
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