Does this have an "avoid highways" setting?
803375
Yes, it does. You can also avoid toll roads, unpaved roads, U-turns, and enter in custom areas/roads to avoid.
723001
You can turn them off by turning off traffic updates (which don't work anyway). Still, it's lame they are tied together like that.
787881
It has a truck setting but it's not that reliable for not getting you into trouble it doesn't seem to alter the route
1639032
Hi Wiliam. Yes. This model has the function you mention. It is very useful when you are driven and have to stop for some time whether short or long, then after reconnecting it will continue its directions to the location you chose before.
685080
not that I have found...there are a number of settings I have only used a few.....
2215434
thats crap... the old garmin 350 has a truck or car/motorcycle mode, that avoids non commercial routes.. this is KEY on long island where half of the major highways are parkways.
459930
Good question. I'll have to check as I think I turned that off. It is visible though as the speed you are driving changes to red the moment you are one mile over three posted speed.The school zone warning is certainly audible.
1151673
As noted there are work arounds for ads while the unit is set for driving mode (ignore, turn off traffic, etc.) However, if the unit is set for pedestrian mode (nuvi) yikes! The whole route and more fills up- very distracting...
1123731
When creating a route to a destination you may select least use of highways/freeways. Thank you.
2272325
It supposedly does but it is not clear how accurate the traffic is. Sometimes it says lots of traffic and it's fine. All in all this GPS is so disappointing and now sitting in my closet. Not good.
1760832
Avoid tolls - no. But you can set several modes of travel, such as "Quickest Route", "Most Use of Freeways", "Shortest Distance", etc
1638039
It always defaults to the fastest route but you can set the unit to avoid certain types of routes and also change the route if the initial one is not to your liking.
2188083
Nothing that I've noticed except for a slightly smaller screen. I travel a lot off of recognizable roads that are on the garmin maps but the "tracks feature" draws a line everywhere I've driven even if the GPS does not recognize a road.
332297
Yes it does. I didn't know it had this feature and was pleasantly surprised to automatically get notices of traffic delays and "faster route" displays on the Garmin. I really like the Garmin, but it doesn't give much audible notice of upcoming left and right turns until it is too late to safely make lane changes.
1612039
I just plugged it in and it defaults to highway automatically. It works great.
1586223
Hello Daina,I don't know if there is an option in the setting that would permit this...It only loads the best rout that it calculates to be the best option. If you connect it with the traffic sensor, and depending on the traffic in your planed rout, it may give a new option (route), and let you know how much time you could save... You will however, have to accept the suggestion before your GPS could implement it (the new route )...Have a great day,Kevin
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If you set it to "H" (highway mode) then it will detect further away, and you won't get the alerts when you pass through a parkinglot. It you have it on "C" which is city, it will detect Everything. But to answer your question, about half a mile to a mile in Highway Mode.