Of course, you’ll first need to set up a POI category called “Drops” or “Customers” or similar, and create all your customer locations within it. If you’ve got a lot of them to do it will almost certainly be quicker and easier to do it with the TomTom connected to your PC using the TomTom Home program.
Have the Garmin Dezl 560 lmt. Knocks spots off the Tom Tom and snooper…
Couple of the blokes I work with have the Dezl and, having seen them in operation alongside one another, I really can’t see too many spots being knocked off my TT. The one significant advantage I could see was its ability to easily re-order multiple drops automatically for maximum efficiency. But the TT Live traffic system is much, much better than the free-to-air RDS-TMC offering of the Garmin.
I take your point Roy, maybe I’m alittle biased but i have had some very bad times with TomTom’s and would never have one again. To be fair the traffic really is not that bad.
Some of the bits i like are the fact it will learn the types of road you drive and also the way you run to points in your favourites. This is useful to me as some of our drops have a one way route in.
Not had it long, so early days.
Oh, I’ve had some right old crap with some of the TomToms I’ve owned in the past (I still have the first TT I ever bought, have had two others nicked and we still have four of them in the house). Most of it was to do with the PC software, but hardware issues with the RDS-TMC traffic receivers they used to use were also a frequent source of annoyance. Early incarnations of the current models were a bit flakey (I’ve got one) but they are much, much better now. The 5150 I currently use is a nice bit of kit. Not perfect (nothing ever is) but it suits me and my requirements very well indeed.
Roymondo:
Muckaway:
Roymondo:
Use POIs instead of favourites - you can then have hundreds of 'emThink I’ll try that later, cheers. I didn’t think you could navigate to them as such, they just showed up en route?
Tap “Navigate To…”
Tap “POI…”
Tap “POI in City…”
Choose city where you are heading and all the near-ish POIs will be listed, in order of distance from the chosen City.
No option on my xxl to navigate to poi. Just the usual options.
Muckaway:
Roymondo:
Muckaway:
Roymondo:
Use POIs instead of favourites - you can then have hundreds of 'emThink I’ll try that later, cheers. I didn’t think you could navigate to them as such, they just showed up en route?
Tap “Navigate To…”
Tap “POI…”
Tap “POI in City…”
Choose city where you are heading and all the near-ish POIs will be listed, in order of distance from the chosen City.No option on my xxl to navigate to poi. Just the usual options.
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But navigate to POI is one of the “usual options”. I’ve got TomToms here of all ages, including an XL (but not an XXL - although TTBOMK it uses the same basic software) and all of them have the same options when you tap the screen and pick “Navigate to…”
What “usual options” do you actually see on that screen (i.e. if you tap the screen and pick “navigate to…” ?
On the XL I see “Home”, “Favourite” and “Address” on the top line, with “Recent Destination”, “Point of Interest” and the Right-arrow on the second line. Tapping that Right-arrow gives a second screen of options with “My location”, “Point on map”, “Latitude Longitude”, “City Centre”, “Position of last stop” and Right-arrow (which takes me back to the first screen).
On the other TomToms here (some older, some newer) the same basic options are there (including, on all of them, Navigate to POI) on that first screen. I am genuinely intrigued to know what yours shows.
Hopefully sorted it mate, and google mapped/street view the customers I’m running to on Monday, saved as poi’s and then set them as my itinerary. Thanks.
Muckaway:
Hopefully sorted it mate, and google mapped/street view the customers I’m running to on Monday, saved as poi’s and then set them as my itinerary. Thanks.
Proper Itinerary planning (as they always used to do) is one glaring omission from the newer TomToms (including the truck-specific 5150). You can almost do it by using the “Travel Via…” feature, but it’s not a patch on the Itinerary Planning of all the earlier units. With my old Go7000 I would spend 5 minutes at the start of the shift entering all the day’s drops, then for the rest of the day I would only have to do a couple of taps on the screen and pick “Next Destination” to have the thing guide me to the next drop.
Yeah what happened to Itinerary planning. As a drivers mate back in 2006 I used to plan a whole day out in one go. Now, 8 years later with a truck specific sat nav I can’t do that.
And, I tried to add a drop to my favourites last week only to be told my favourites were full. Oh, I’m sorry, how dare my company send me to more than 150 different locations 
I think Favourites has always been limited in number - TBH I thought it was rather less than 150. Easier to just use POIs instead.
I would’ve said less than 150 too but I googled it and that was the number that came up.
Any limit is stupid, there are thousands of POIs, Favourites should be no different.
“Travel via” mode can make a car sat nav more reliable, combined with “road closed” as soon as a weight limit is spotted. Recalculating is pretty good too.
Muckaway:
“Travel via” mode can make a car sat nav more reliable, combined with “road closed” as soon as a weight limit is spotted. Recalculating is pretty good too.
Still very much a fudge though - and results in drivers prodding away at SatNav screens when they should be paying attention to where they are going/what’s going on around them.
Roymondo:
Muckaway:
“Travel via” mode can make a car sat nav more reliable, combined with “road closed” as soon as a weight limit is spotted. Recalculating is pretty good too.Still very much a fudge though - and results in drivers prodding away at SatNav screens when they should be paying attention to where they are going/what’s going on around them.
True, I research my route with an atlas before setting off, trying to stay on the primary routes where possible. Worked a treat for me in East Anglia where several A roads have weight limits without obvious reason (like Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire really).
Buy a car Tom Tom Live and mix that with common sense, re route is your friend, also reading road signs helps! I multi drop London / Home Counties with no problem with this technique. If in doubt look at a map, which I have and discovered the Tom Tom is cleverer than I am (not hard). Save yourself some money. Looking at the distance to the drop helps me a lot on those " shall I or shant I " decisions.
The problem I have is learning where all the drops are! mostly farms all over Scotland, like everyone else once you have been once then its in the memory but a wrong turn can cost me 20mins to half an hour
Gonna go for the tomtom 5150 and run it along side my tomtom xl with truck navcore and maps for a week and if its not better return it, ps also have plenty of phillips street maps including the national one but not all farms are on it so the postcode is generally easier to find on TT (if its the right one!) and will post results in a week or 2
kaode:
The problem I have is learning where all the drops are! mostly farms all over Scotland, like everyone else once you have been once then its in the memory but a wrong turn can cost me 20mins to half an hour
Gonna go for the tomtom 5150 and run it along side my tomtom xl with truck navcore and maps for a week and if its not better return it, ps also have plenty of phillips street maps including the national one but not all farms are on it so the postcode is generally easier to find on TT (if its the right one!) and will post results in a week or 2
I don’t think tom tom have been to many farms judging by my 5150, I had to do a 7 point shunt last week to get around a corner it sent me, no more for me, I was nearly ‘‘Mortimored’’
kaode:
Need a new sat-nav but £300 is alot of cash
http://www.hgv-trucktables.co.uk/truck-sat-nav.php
Chris is on the ball £60 
£3 odd on postage 
mickyblue:
I have the 5150 and has not let me down
Starting trucking job next week. Have bought 5150. Was impressed with touchscreen compare the older ones. Quite big screen. Live Traffic works great as much as I can see out of my house window (haven’t used it in “real” life yet). But…
Been bored today and was “digging” in all kind of options and settings and discover one interesting thing:
If you go to Life Services-HD Traffic-View Map-Options- and here you can see 5 options:
Traffic info (active)
Names (active)
POI (inactive)
Favourites (inactive)
SATELLITE IMAGES (inactive) is the one which makes me curious. As I assume that should be something like “Google maps” and that could be awesome option but he is inactive and now I feel disappointed
Was googleing around but can not find any info about it.
That could be great if users could see on Tom Tom Satellite View and Street View aswell especially for Truckers to see their drop point on same device. Anyways Google maps are for free on all the phones.
Was googling