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  • Overview
  • New Features
  • The CoPilot Truck Advantage
  • Easy to Use GPS Navigation
  • Easy Destination Entry
  • Improved Screen Display
  • Driver Safety
  • Points of Interest
  • Navigation Based Services
  • Advanced Features
  • Information Sheet

CoPilot Truck 11 — Your expert guide

CoPilot Truck, the first GPS Navigation system specifically designed for company drivers, owner operators and leased operators is the only way to receive spoken industry standard PC*MILER directions in the cab.

 

Core Features

PC*MILER Routing: Practical, Shortest, 53'/102'' Trailer, HazMat, National Network and Toll Avoidance

13' 6" height, 48' length, 80,000 pound weight and 96" width restrictions

Loud spoken Dock-to-Dock directions throughout the U.S. & Canada

Easily avoids and favors roads and locations

Finds best sequence for up to 50 stops

Miss a turn? With fast automatic route recalculation, you will never be lost.

Truck stops, rest areas, weigh stations plus 6 Million additional Points of Interest with phone numbers

Easy-to-see Driver Safety Screen; Flexible and Clear 2D and 3D map views

 

Professional Drivers Benefits

Improve driver and fleet safety by reducing accidents, costly fines and vehicle damage

Provide operational consistency with PC*MILER in the cab and back office

Reduce out-of-route, empty and dead- head mileage

Reduces Fuel Costs

Improve Driver and dispatcher productivity

Helps you avoid costly fines and vehicle damage

Provide Accurate pick-up and delivery times

Safe and stress-free driving on Truck-legal roads

Improve Driver retention and recruiting

 



Text to Speech: Provides spoken dock-to-dock directions with street names in a natural and clear voice.

Now with over 6 million Points of Interest you can easily find the nearest truck stop, weigh station or rest area along your route or in a specified city.

Route Preview: Now you can review and experience an entire trip before you begin your route.

Customize Route preferences: Set and Save the types of roads you want CoPilot Truck to navigate you on.

User Interface: Address entry now offers more choices, fewer steps and predictive address searching. The large finger-touch buttons and intuitive menus make CoPilot Truck easy and simple to use.

Redesigned Planning Mode: Enter multiple destinations, mark waypoints, adjust routing options and preview your trip before you hit the road.

Personalize your CoPilot: CoPilot Truck is packed with display preference options. Chose your routing preference, voice and language type and you can even change the map color and theme.

Latest Street Level Maps from ALK: Over 800 counties updated nationwide and over 200,000 miles of new road added

In addition to the great new look and features, CoPilot Truck 11 retains the award winning functionality of CoPilot navigation software and the Industry standard PC*MILER routing options.

 

Full featured GPS Navigation. CoPilot Truck provides all the benefits of a navigation system on your Laptop specifically designed for professional drivers.

Calculates complicated routes in seconds. CoPilot Truck 11 is the only GPS Navigations system that calculates truck specific routes based on the industry standard PC*MILER software.

Intelligent re-routing if you miss a turn. If you do miss a turn, CoPilot Truck will immediately calculate the best new route rather than simply trying to get you back to the original one.

The latest digital street maps. Up to date maps we believe to be the most accurate available, containing millions of street addresses, and points of interest.

Designed with your safety as the priority. In Addition to CoPilot Truck looking great, it's designed to guide you clearly and without unnecessary distraction.

Multiple stop itinerary and trip optimizer. Enter up to 50 stops or waypoints in an itinerary and choose optimize to calculate the most efficient route.

Easy to Use GPS Navigation

CoPilot Truck 11 is designed to be as easy to use as any dedicated GPS Navigation system.

 

Automatic GPS setup.
Whether your laptop has built-in GPS or you need to use an external Bluetooth or USB GPS receiver. Simply select 'GPS setup' and CoPilot Truck will do the rest.

CoPilot Tuck 11 is supplied on a DVD and installs right on your laptop. There's no need to download maps in order to start driving.

New user interface. With its redesigned user interface and clear menus, CoPilot Truck is incredible easy to use.

A series of hints, tips and tutorials in CoPilot Truck will help explain the basics, and a comprehensive user manual can be found on your laptop after you install the program.

The primary job of a GPS navigation system is to guide you where you need to go. CoPilot Truck 11 makes it easy with step by step address entry and predictive searching. Destination entry options are:

Address. Enter an exact street address with city, state or zip code.

Points of interest. CoPilot Truck 11 is packed full of useful locations such as truck stops, rest areas, weigh stations and many more.

Home. You can program your home address into CoPilot Truck, making it easy to get back home at the touch of a button.

Work. You can program your work address to get back to base easily.

Favorite. Save your most frequently visited locations.

Recent. CoPilot keeps track of 50 places you've been before.

Contact. Select and address from your contact database just by selecting a name.

Pick on the map. Not sure of your exact address? Simply pin point anywhere on the map. CoPilot Truck will take you right to that location.

Intersection. Find the way to a crossroads.

Saved Trip. Open a trip already created.

Coordinates. Enter latitude-longitude coordinates for the ultimate in precision destination entry.

Once you have entered in your destination(s), CoPilot Truck 11's new route preview feature shows you a simulation of the entire trip in advance!

Once you have hit the road, CoPilot Truck will guide you to your destination with spoken dock-to-dock directions all the way to the door. CoPilot Truck offers multiple map view options and a 'Driver Safety' display.

 

At the touch of a button you can change the display to:

3D. A bird's eye view perspective of the road ahead, complete with on-road turn arrow and 3D Points of Interest icons.
Where Am I? - a 2D view of the road showing your location at the zoom level of your choice
Next turn - a 2D map showing where you are and your next turn with the map progressively zooming closer to the turn
Destination - a 2D map showing the entire route to your destination
Itinerary - view the turn by turn directions for your trip
Safety - displays at-a-glance text instructions and a large arrow of your next turn.

You can also manually or automatically switch between day and low-glare night map view to match the time of your trip.

CoPilot Truck is designed to help you keep your eyes on the road, not on-screen. Our 'Driver Safety' mode only shows you a map when you need to make a turn. Once you get within a mile of a turn, the map appears, progressively zooming-in before returning to the safety screen.

 

You can adjust the Driver Safety settings in CoPilot Truck 11 to suit your preferences, for example a 2D or 3D map or how close to a turn you want a map to be displayed. You can even choose never to display a map, and rely on CoPilot's spoken directions at each turn.

CoPilot Truck includes millions of Points of Interest with phone numbers where available.

Finding the nearest fuel location, rest area or weigh station is made easy using the 'Find nearby POI' button from the main menu, or by enabling POI notification.

POIs are displayed in CoPilot Truck both in 2D or 3D map views. If you have a cell phone with you, select details for the POI and call it directly.

 

CoPilot Truck is a 'connected' navigation system to provide you — and others — with real-time Live location-specific information about your trip

CoPilot Truck Traffic — The optional traffic service can detect and warn you about congestion on your route. You can choose to avoid or ignore each incident manually or automatically. You can also check for traffic incidents in other places — just enter the town or city name.

Live location tracking on the Internet — CoPilot Truck can use the mobile Internet to help you keep in touch with others when you are on the move. You can send tracking invite e-mails from within CoPilot to let friends, family or colleagues view your location live on an Internet map. They can even send you instant messages and new destinations!

 

It's an ideal way to let your customers know where you are, when you'll get there or simply that you've arrived safely.

To create a "Live" tracking account please visit: http://live.alk.com

CoPilot Truck is packed full of advanced features designed to make your trips easier. Un-like many GPS navigation systems, CoPilot Truck lets you enter-in multiple addresses in 1 itinerary.

Enter up to 50 stops in one trip and select "Optimize" for the most cost effective route.

Detour feature helps you find a way around unexpected hold ups. You can search for an alternative route or avoid a specific road section.

Save current location. Save your current location and find the way back there later with ease, ideal for an unfamiliar town.

Avoid toll roads where possible.

Create custom route profiles to suit your driving preferences based on your vehicle size

Create and save trips for quick destination entry while on the road.

Estimate how much your trip will cost based on fuel efficiency and price.

Calculate your planned state by state miles for fuel tax reporting

Warnings. If the driver accidently turns on a Truck or Hazardous restricted road, CoPilot Truck will display a warning on the screen and re-calculate the best route to get off the road quickly.

 

Customize! CoPilot Truck your own personal GPS navigation system

CoPilot Truck 11 is full of options to adjust settings, color themes and other preferences to suit the way you travel.

Change the map colors. Pick from a range of preloaded color themes, including familiar industry-standard map styles

Choose your preferred keyboard layout including Alphabetical, QWERTY or simply use the touch screen.

Change the language or voice easily There's a range of different voices and languages preloaded in CoPilot Truck, including "Samantha" for text- to- speech directions.

Continues updated information. Choose from: Destination, Current Road, Next Crossroad, Next Major Road, Nearest Town, Speed, Altitude and Heading, Latitude and Longitude while on the road.

Adjustable guidance. Select when and how far from a turn you receive spoken instructions

Display road restrictions and 1-way streets