Is Trucker Path Worth It?

The app is free to download on iOS and Android, and it is a free version with ads rather than a trial that expires. Without paying you can plan a route around your own truck and look at it, and you get the map of more than 500,000 truck stops with parking availability, weigh station open or closed status, diesel prices and driver reviews. Turn-by-turn navigation along the route is on a paid plan, as are several other features; what each plan includes is published on our pricing page.

That depends on which part of your week costs you money. A plan is worth it if you regularly lose time hunting for parking late in the day, plan fuel across long runs, run trips with several stops, or want the route on your vehicle display through CarPlay. If you mostly want the map, the stops and what other drivers said about them, start with the free app and see. Current plans and what each one includes are published on our pricing page.

It is built for trucks rather than adapted from a car map: you set height, width, weight and type once, and routes are planned around them with low clearance warnings. The App Store listing puts it plainly — routes that avoid sharp turns, low overpasses, bridges and small roads. It is rated 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3M+ truckers’ reviews, as published on truckerpath.com, and our site states that over one million truckers rely on it.

Four things, in roughly that order: finding a truck stop or a parking spot that still has room, checking what diesel costs before committing to a stop, seeing whether a scale house is open or closed, and reading what other drivers said about a place before pulling in. The routing matters, but the reason the phone stays on the mount is the information about what is coming up.

The paid plans come with a seven-day free trial. Because the subscription is billed through the App Store or Google Play, you cancel it there rather than in the app: on iPhone open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions; on Android open the Play Store, tap your profile, then Payments and subscriptions. Cancelling before the trial ends stops the charge, and the free version keeps working afterwards.

The free version shows you the route but does not drive it with you — turn-by-turn navigation is on a paid plan, and that is the line most drivers hit first. It is also a phone app, so it does not give you a separate screen that works with no phone at all. And the parking, fuel price and weigh station information comes from drivers reporting as they go, which means it is as current as the last report rather than a live feed from every lot.

That is the case drivers make most often in their own reviews — knowing which truck stops exist and which ones are worth stopping at is exactly the knowledge a new driver has not built up yet. One review published on our site puts it this way: "This app is great, especially for the new drivers who don't know every truck stop."

You can download it and look at the map without paying. Reporting parking availability, leaving a review on a stop or buying discounted diesel through the 10-4 by WEX fuel network means being signed in, because those actions are tied to a driver rather than a device.