alix776:
Just use your smartphone and down load a truck navigation app if your starting on agency work its one less thing to carry and the truck apps do exactly the same thing as the nozathingy or snooper.
I have an iPhone 6+ running Co-Pilot Pro. £130. Lots of capability, 8 different standard profiles for instance and amazingly customisable. Well recommended.
I run the same copilot truck on an old 4s aponia is a good one I’ve used too
DO NOT BUY a cheap Chinese one from Ebay. There are about £40. Mine was fine for 2 weeks. Then the battery died, and they cannot be replaced. And should you break the screen , they also, cannot be replaced. That is guess, is wht the are so cheap.
Ian240356:
DO NOT BUY a cheap Chinese one from Ebay. There are about £40. Mine was fine for 2 weeks. Then the battery died, and they cannot be replaced. And should you break the screen , they also, cannot be replaced. That is guess, is wht the are so cheap.
That’s not really a reason not to buy one…As i’ve had my £40 one for 3yrs now.With no issues…Did buy a £70 one 5 months ago from trucktables…But that was more to do with wanting more upto date maps…
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daftvader:
Ian240356:
DO NOT BUY a cheap Chinese one from Ebay. There are about £40. Mine was fine for 2 weeks. Then the battery died, and they cannot be replaced. And should you break the screen , they also, cannot be replaced. That is guess, is wht the are so cheap.That’s not really a reason not to buy one…As i’ve had my £40 one for 3yrs now.With no issues…Did buy a £70 one 5 months ago from trucktables…But that was more to do with wanting more upto date maps…
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Still use my £36 Chinese origin Xgody truck Sat nav from Ebay every working day,
2yrs old next month and never missed a beat.[emoji41]
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Google maps on my phone more often than not gives me a better route than my truck sat nav. Coupled up with checking for bridge heights on my road atlas I’d use google and the atlas rather than another expensive sat nav!
Rowley010:
Google maps on my phone more often than not gives me a better route than my truck sat nav. Coupled up with checking for bridge heights on my road atlas I’d use google and the atlas rather than another expensive sat nav!
Google Maps is also better for finding stuff. I don’t enter addresses for the depots I go to, I’ll just say, yes say not type in, “Howdens Joinery Huddersfield” for example, it’ll show the list for that and nearby ones and I just tap directions and away I go. There are very few places it doesn’t automagically find. You can say “TPN Minworth” and it’ll show “The Pallet Network” hub in Minworth.
Mobile phone, Google Maps (HERE Maps for an offline backup) and bridge height/weight limit atlas gets my vote too.
Ian240356:
DO NOT BUY a cheap Chinese one from Ebay. There are about £40. Mine was fine for 2 weeks. Then the battery died, and they cannot be replaced. And should you break the screen , they also, cannot be replaced. That is guess, is wht the are so cheap.
So you had a faulty one,many have not had such issues.
As for the screen they ARE replaceable but because of the cost involved it’s cheaper to just buy a new one…as opposed to say a £300 tomtom where you’d replace the screen which would cost around £50 same as one of the cheaper ones but the original purchase price makes it uneconomical to do it.
I have 2 of the ones in the link,got them both cheap one from eBay auction and the other off gumtree paid £25 for one and £30 for the other so I have a spare one.
I have one those cheap x goody ones on primo software.
Done nearly 2 years no probs.
Only snag I’ve had is on the odd occasion took me down 7.5 tonne acces only road. Apart from that been bang on.
I run at 16ft most days and my height varies 2 or 3 times a day from 13ft to 16 never had problem with bridges.
I also use my phone quite a lot for google maps and truck map.
I like google maps pin points exact building phone numbers very handy tool.
If you want cheap go for this classic: Binatone U435 4.3 Inch Sat Nav Lifetime Maps Uk & ROI.
From Argos Part No.171/3190 and only £49.99 of beer tokens.
argos.co.uk/static/Product/p … 713190.htm
It states: Travel around the UK and ROI with confidence with this Binatone U435 4.3 Inch UK and ROI Sat Nav.
This sat nav features safety camera alerts and lane guidance, so you know when to change lanes.
This Binatone sat nav has free lifetime maps.
It is cheap, tacky and poorly made so fill your boots, you might get it cheaper in aldi/lidl on a special!!
I have a PNavi which I cant update but have since got a Tom Tom. PNavi free to collector or will post for the price of the stamps. Battery shagged but no problem with it working when it is plugged in.
Google maps. Free on most phones…
Unless you have data signal outage