Hammer: Truck GPS & Maps Negative Reviews

Hammer: Truck GPS & Maps App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Hammer: Truck GPS & Maps app received 24 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Hammer: Truck GPS & Maps? Can you share your negative thoughts about hammer: truck gps & maps?

Hammer: Truck GPS & Maps for Negative User Reviews

✓ A sad death of a great app.I haul exclusively OS/OW, and this app is perfect… when it works. Let’s review based on it working, and hopefully it will work again. You can save routes and easily alter the routes as your permit changes. The unlimited stops and ability to save your route makes multi day trips a breeze. Just take the time to build your route and you know you are good. If your iPad updates or needs to restart, just reload your saved route. Some of my longer trips have 20 or more route points and this app handled them easily. When works, it is a 5 star app. Right now it does not work at all. It actually crashes so hard I need to do a soft reset to get my iPad to function. This is particularly frustrating, as my ELD is through my iPad as well. I have tried to use it in portrait and landscape mode. With and without extra stops (no added points renders it useless to me). And I have uninstalled and reinstalled it multiple times. All to no avail. I hope it works again some day, but I can not continue to try to test an app that crashes my whole system..$6hf&nVersion: 1.14.2

✓ Poor customer serviceDownloaded the app two different times. First time when it came out, second time just recently. First time, app wouldn’t follow my location, so I had to keep refreshing the map to show my location. Waited a couple days, played with the settings longer, still couldn’t get the app to follow my location. Had same issue when I downloaded it the second time. Messaged the customer support in app and the tech feedback in the help page. Did not get a response in either. App was a good idea for give rough estimates on drive times to my supervisor for trip planning, but couldn’t keep it if that was the only reason to have it. I can google the route and add a couple hours. I may download it a third time later, but there are other options to try first..XarasdaddyVersion: 1.9.0

✓ Pretty Good but u gotta babysit it..I was recently on a route that took me through Winslow and Flagstaff Arizona… after 10 min on the interstate Hammer changed my route adding 2.5 hrs to my trip and was directing me to exit the interstate at Winslow and go north on a bypass route 2.5 hrs out of the way to come back to interstate in Flagstaff… fortunately i figured it out and went by the exit in Winslow and it rerouted almost immediately back to original route and 2.5 hours less of a trip. This was not the first time Hammer had tried to sidetrack me off the interstate for no reason! The app has stopped showing some of the Loves and TA/Petro truckstops with the latest version. Too bad the developer can’t test their app and fix problems like this. This app seems to get worse and worse with every update..PoorTranslationVersion: 1.20.2

✓ UpgradesRoad weights would b great for a lot of drivers. Some don’t know the weight the road is designed for no truck route as well.P Woodworth71Version: 1.20.5

✓ CrapSo you’re driving along at night with Hammer running in dark mode and you want to know how many miles before the next turn. You look at your screen and see the white right turn arrow against the yellow background but you can’t see how far because it is displayed in a teeny tiny font, also white against a yellow background. It just looks like a blur. So you pick up your iPhone from the holder and hold it up to your face while squinting while you drift off to the side of the road and your tires catch a snow patch and the next thing you know, you are jackknifed in a ditch!! Could they have possibly found a color/size combination more difficult to read??? You’d think they would design it so the distances could be EASY to read but NOOOOO! Also, the app has this annoying tendency to freeze and crash while using..LarsbullockVersion: 1.20.2

✓ Amazing navigation app.This is an amazing navigation app however, it still has bugs. I like the app however when nearing exits and turns it does not respond quickly enough so you find yourself slamming on the brakes and changing lanes extremely quickly. You also find that this system near New York City in Newark New Jersey seems to tell you to be in the wrong lane almost every time you need to make an exit. I’m not sure whether that’s a bad rate issue or a satellite issue. However, the routes it gives you to navigate are always excellent just need work on exits stops and turns and the lead time a trucker would need in order to make them safely..79malubuVersion: 1.20.8

✓ Fix the bugs!!!!I use to love this app!!! Now all a sudden updates were made and the app crashes. It went from never crashing not one time to now as soon as I click start route boom it crashes. And if I get it up in running it’ll crash mid route. So now I have to pull over with my 4 ways and find out where to go . Use to be reliable but now it’s unreliable !! Get it together I drive a 18 wheeler with a 53 foot trailer can’t go down certain roads and this app lets me know those roads. Another thing if I miss a turn , REROUTE!!! Don’t make me make a impossible U turn or put me in no truck route residential just to get me back on the route. There’s other ways ! Plz fix these problems._.kvng.b_Version: 1.18.2

✓ Right turnNeed to fix It showing me right turn but there was no road.Gv sidhuVersion: 1.21.18

✓ Please address the map orientation bugWhile I thoroughly enjoy the app—aesthetics, functionality etc., I have noticed that when in “Go” mode (which is an awesome feature since the screen stays on and it gives you a live look at travel / moving location) the map will, at random and sporadically twist and turn during travel, almost as if it’s directional sense is thrown off. That gets very annoying and it’s quite frustrating when you’re needing the stability of the map in tight situations. I don’t know if this issue is a bug within the script or an issue with hardware/software compatibility but I hope it is fixed soon. Again, great app, but please address the “Go” features live orientation bug..Isobar33Version: 1.20.2

✓ 90 days in and Mostly good but ...Easy to use good app good features but can’t trust it to keep you on a good route more than once so if you get a good one save it immediately. Get rid of carpool lane recommendations because ...never in a truck. Please look into making it possible to adjust the recommended routes by dragging your route line. (used to be able to do on Mapquest) this would be more helpful than any other upgrade. Most times a good route but rarely will it give you a great route. When it does you’ll close the app to take care of something before you go, then and open it, input the same destination and bam you’re route is completely changed. Now the shortest route option is 30-70miles longer than the previous route provided and we added some fun skills challenges at the end like a u-turn on a 2 lane rd. or some sight seeing through a small town before we run you back onto the same hwy you just got off of and have you take the next exit. Good luck trying to adjust your trip after the recommendation is given. this app is stubborn. It’s like oh you liked that route did you well how about we don’t go that way again. ever. Please add the hwy exit numbers to the standard rd name description during the route instead of waiting until you get too close to the exit to take your eyes off traffic. Please make the roadway tags a little larger they stay way too small and don’t enlarge no matter how much you zoom in. Good app will keep using..JV VirginiaVersion: 1.15.2

✓ Used to be a good appWhen I first downloaded this app, it worked perfectly. I had no issues getting to places and I liked how the speed limit was always available now after the update this app is absolutely terrible. The information bar at the top that shows you your next direction gets stuck so it will tell you to turn down a street that you have already turned onto miles ago. The speed limit also get me stuck. It’ll say that you’re going about 7 mph when you’re going 60 on the highway. then not to mention the screen will go black and you have to close out the app and put the address in all over again. change everything back to the way It was before the last update and I’ll go back to using it but I am going to delete this app off my phone because at this point, it is useless.J BunzVersion: 1.20.2

✓ Has great potentialI like it but it needs work. No metric. Some other minor details. Can't figure out how to save a favourite. But it did keep me on the truck route. It's very accurate at speed limits..Don andVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Nice for what it doesThank you developers! Finally what I was looking for. Better than my garmin dezl. Use it in conjunction with my Dezl just in case but so far works very well. Word of caution tho, don’t entirely trust for low bridges. My Garmin Dezl and this app sends me towards a low bridge near me as well unfortunately. Better routings and finds businesses by names. Satellite view and the ability to manually set entrance pinpoints. So far, so good. Edit: Sorry to say I had to take a star away due to that it at times wants me to reroute down small residential neighborhoods. My garmin rerouted in a safe manner. I think Hammer gps has a ton of potential but maybe just updates will help..Zeusman4uVersion: 1.5.1

✓ Free, and you get what you pay forI have to use this app for work, but I don’t like it. Miss one turn or even just stop to refuel and it loses the route. I have learned to not start the routing until I’m at the edge of the road because if I’m supposed to turn right out of the yard but I’m moving to the left through the gate, it quits speaking the directions. 50/50 that you get rerouted, but 90% chance it’ll quit giving you audible directions, which means you have to either restart the whole thing or watch the map the entire route to make sure you don’t miss a turn Also tells me to use private drives as through roads and has me exit freeways to get back on them. Roads that don’t exist are routed as well A lot of work to be done to make this better.Jose JiminezVersion: 1.21.18

✓ HiSo the fact that the app is free is amazing but honestly I have way to many issues lately with the app not even searching up the addresses of company’s I deliver to every day I have to look up the town every single time and sometimes that doesn’t even work but before it was working fine idk if it was the last update or what happened but it works fine besides I can’t put in any addresses of places I deliver or pickup from just wish that issue would be fixed and I triple check the address every time from my paperwork and Google both.Areyn121998Version: 1.21.7

✓ Average at bestI use this sparingly and typically for short runs to confirm a truck friendly route. This GPS app repeatedly gives routes that are longer and less efficient then other truck friendly routes I can find. As an example a North to south run from Wahpeton, ND to Greenville TX. The Hammer app only gives one option that is 1101 miles long 17+ hrs. I can travel this run in just over 16 hrs and spend more time on truck friendly state highways and interstates running 1,063 miles. In routes running West to East along I-80 the Hammer app always wants me to get off I-80, get on Indiana state hwy 30, then travel back North to get on I-80 again. Time consuming and inefficient..DababsterVersion: 1.16.1

✓ DisappointingHelps to avoid non truck routes but better have google maps on as well , this thing will display a huge sign telling you to exit but will display a huge box right on top of the exit and covering your map to see where you going not to mention it needs contant data or it would go crazy and freeze oh and sometimes you driving south then you exit to eat when it’s time to get on the highway it tells you to get north so u have to reset it and itllgo back to hammering and to top it off today no matter what address you put in it it just sayng thar “couldn’t find a route for your destination “ no matter where i go all day it’s been like that soooo definitely not reliable.Csmart haterVersion: 1.9.1

✓ Not accurate mapThe location is not correct sometimes.Yaoliang556666Version: 1.21.18

✓ Okay, but needs improvement, and be careful with your infoI started using this app to help maneuver through some bigger cities I’d never been to before and was making deliveries to on my last trip. Overall it was okay, but more times than I’d like to say the maps gave really inaccurate information for clearance heights which wasted my time as I had to reroute and find my way around some tricky areas with which I was able to make the clearance. I also used a separate phone number from my usual one to register and in the weeks since I started using the app I have come to find they sold my info and I’ve been getting on average about 3-6 calls a day from various unwanted solicitors related to information given in the app and for trucking companies I never had any association with or would have my information for any other reason calling about bogus jobs and other nonsense..Hugh Cares (I do)Version: 1.19.1

✓ Stop don’t get it not worth it.Bad, not worth the Download. I got this app a month ago at the recommendation of a friend and fellow trucker. It worked great for the first month but over the last few weeks it has failed me big time. For some reason it keeps wanting me to take an off ramp just to get back on the freeway. It was doing this for over 50 miles. Then it was by passing the hwy in favor of the surface streets resulting in adding to my trip time and mileage (that’s cost me $) not good. The newest thing is if you do not take the route it wants ( ie the off ramp to just get back on the hi-way) it stops working and you have to set up your route again. My fear is that one day it will take me down a road that I will not be able to get out of or a low over pass..Sandbag1973Version: 1.21.18

✓ App needs major improvementsThis could be a really great app but it falls way short. First of all, it would be nice if I, as a driver, could be told ahead of time the exit number and the correct lane to be in. This app somewhat tells you the exit number but when it does, it’s way too late for drivers to make safe decisions on how to exit. Secondly, even with my vehicle type and dimensions programmed in the settings, I am constantly routed down streets that I have no business being on. It also tells me to do U-turns. Finally, after a turn is missed, the recalculation process is terrible, at best. This app is a great idea but it needs to be updated. I have been placed in extremely dangerous situations from using this app..Bloot TootVersion: 1.20.1

✓ NavigationThe app works but the direction line is hard to read and it has showed me 3 times to take one route and the switch and caused me to miss my turn. Any city like Atlanta or Wisconsin where you have to navigate thru different directions it’s trash! Has too much on the display and takes to much time to focus while you driving to see the right direction to go and when you do it still send you down the road in the wrong direction. And it always asking about truck stops and if they full or empty. It gets annoying when you trying to get some where. I gave it 3 because it works on open roads but in cities google blows this app away..E.T.RacingVersion: 1.18.5

✓ MrThind.SbsthindfarmVersion: 1.21.18

✓ WORKED BEFORE!!!This abs need to be completely fixed! I use this app daily and this update that was just sent out made this app not usable and it’s very frustrating because I appreciate this app being free and all but when update come out and four app doesn’t even work what am I supposed to do??? I’m extremely upset. The app does not search for anything correctly at all now and for truckstops and barely find anything that’s correct it continues to freeze up and shuts down while I’m driving the whole time driving using this today the app decided to show that there was no speed that I was going and then completely stopped working and continue to show previous pass miles driven. Having a tech-support button in the app is also a little frustrating because no one responds to anything I’ve sent and opened a request and never heard anything back. Not sure if this is a one-man running the show, but if so, please reach out to me because I have tech-support experience and I would be gladly happy to assist in anyway just so this app can be successful..Mr twerkVersion: 1.20.2

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