just to add, if somebody spent some time on programing a hgv specific version, surely they’d make a fortune?
paul b:
just to add, if somebody spent some time on programing a hgv specific version, surely they’d make a fortune?
I did suggest to TomTom that they produce a version tailored to HGV usage - With built-in bridge height and weight restriction databases, and with the facility to avoid minor roads unless there is no practical alternative. I’ve got the low bridges stuff on mine (TomTom Go 510), but it would be nice if it could avoid them in its routing, rather than simply warning you before you get to them.
But as others have said, Satnav is no substitute for common sense and the Mk1 human eyeball/brain combination.
It’s worth making the point that you can also use a SatNav system in two-dimensional mode, meaning that you can pre-plan a route exactly as you would if using a paper map, except that it has many more features marked- filling stations, ATMs, low bridges and so on…
Furthermore, you can tailor your SatNav to your own personal needs- I have every branch of Travis Perkins on mine, because I deliver there, but you could have campsites, branches of KFC, Skoda dealerships etc etc etc…
Me, I wouldn’t be without mine- the time, trouble and aggravation it saved me in the first month alone made it worth the price I paid.
It seems to me that the only people hostile towards them are those who have never actually used one- twice I have lent mine to another driver when I have gone on holiday, both drivers had bought their own before I got back to work, despite their previous apparent disdain for them.
Harry Monk:
It’s worth making the point that you can also use a SatNav system in two-dimensional mode, meaning that you can pre-plan a route exactly as you would if using a paper map, except that it has many more features marked- filling stations, ATMs, low bridges and so on.
Well said Mr Monk. I’ve been banging that drum for longer than I care to think. wink: 
If someone likes maps, use maps, if they prefer SatNav use that but I fail to see the need to double up and use both, it just seems time consuming and pointless to do the same thing twice using different mediums.
I use it every day but with caution, just like all maps they dont show weight limits and low bridges (you can get low bridges downloaded of the net) I do use my big truckers atlas so on the way there I mainley use it for mileage puposes so I can get a rough idea how long it will take me. there not 100% acurate but ive used it for the past 2 years and it is one of the best investments ive made.
thats my view anyway
steve
i use garmin street pilot and up to press it aint took me the “wrong way” common sence is all thats needed… 
Hello Guys, I’ve just passed my class one and am still doing the home delivery thing part time thats helped me afford both licences, anyway, SatNav is installed in all 4 vans but breaks down regularly plus one of em is a combined radio sat nav which mutes the radio and cant find many locations anyway, I have been doing this for 18 months so I know the regulars but for the unknown and as previous have said I prefer maps. Recently saw an accident report where someone had removed the vehicle roof using a low bridge, He blamed the satnav for not warning of the low bridge height!!! All the ones we have do not have that facility anyway!!! and he should have been watching the signs!!!
8wheels:
Use it in conjuction with your brain, is the key. If it tells you to do something that doesn’t seem right, don’t do it and let it find another way. Follow it blind and it will get you into trouble sooner or later..
A Sat Nav flaw that many people don’t realise untill they come a cropper. 
Grumpy Shunter:
8wheels:
Use it in conjuction with your brain, is the key. If it tells you to do something that doesn’t seem right, don’t do it and let it find another way. Follow it blind and it will get you into trouble sooner or later..
A Sat Nav flaw that many people don’t realise untill they come a cropper.
That isn’t a Sat Nav flaw IMHO Grumpy Shunter, that’s an operator flaw.