what is the difference apart from the screen size?
Oh and the £50 price difference
A thousand.
Ha ha
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I’m gonna sound really sad now, but having created spreadsheets detailing all the differences between truck sat navs I’ve not found any difference except for size of screen and weight in those two, although £50 is quite cheap for increasing by an inch. I guess if you’re going to spend the money, maybe the bigger screen is easier to see at a glance although that has to be weighed against the number of Costa coffee’s this will buy!
Btw, just to confuse things a little, have you considered the Snooper range? More expensive, but you can programme it to find that Costa-lot coffee station en-route (allegedly) via the “POI en-route” feature. then when the boss asks why you’ve got 20 miles off-course, you can tell him technology told you to.
PS: I hope you realise the “experienced” drivers are now mostly sniggering at us for even considering spending this much on a sat nav, not mentioning any names. 
I’m not sniggering at you Trev (well, only a little ) and I subscribe to Robroys view of overpriced electronic maps, but I can understand people paying for the assorted benefits they get with expensive sat nags. It’s horses for courses mate, and what makes you happy is all that counts, so carry on and do that, I’ll not knock you for spending YOUR money in any way YOU so desire, just don’t get sucked into believing that you NEED the latest offering from Snooper/Tom Tom or you’ll not be able to do your job efficiently.
As an aside I’ve got a Snooper something or other that “fell off the back of a lorry” and as such I can’t update maps etc, hell it even shows the roundabouts at Grantham and Colsterworth still and refuses to believe that the A421 at Bedford is an actual road but importantly it gets me the last mile to new delivery points and for 50 quid that’s all I want.
trevHCS:
Btw, just to confuse things a little, have you considered the Snooper range? More expensive, but you can programme it to find that Costa-lot coffee station en-route (allegedly) via the “POI en-route” feature. then when the boss asks why you’ve got 20 miles off-course, you can tell him technology told you to.
TomTom will do that as well…
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the maoster:
I’m not sniggering at you Trev (well, only a little
I never said a bloody word 
As Maoster says if you are ok with spending that sort of money on one of those things, crack on mate, it’s your money and nothing to do with anybody else…doesn’t stop me sniggering though 
robroy:
I never said a bloody word
Can you think of any you haven’t?
Evil8Beezle:
robroy:
I never said a bloody wordCan you think of any you haven’t?
No, but I’ll get back to you on it.
trevHCS:
PS: I hope you realise the “experienced” drivers are now mostly sniggering at us for even considering spending this much on a sat nav, not mentioning any names.
My son is just going through his Cat C training which I’m paying for and a Tomtom 6000 is on my shopping list for him. He’s going to have a hard enough time as it is learning the job without trying to have to do it with a map in his hand. I’m not worried he will depend on it as he recently did a trip from Bridlington to Gloucester with nothing more than a Google Maps printout and when he came to where the M5 shut for roadworks managed to navigate his way around it by quite rightly seeing lots of wagons go shooting off down one road ignoring the diversion signs and figured they knew something he didn’t. When he lost them he managed to work out his way back to the M5 without any maps or Satnav.
First one I got was the HGV trucktables one. Great for the price but I got a bit fed up with it being on old speed limits and no updates on the map.
Shelled out for the trucker 6000, I’ll bullet point my main good and bads:
GOOD:
. Great size display, easy to read and see everything on it at a glance
. Sound quality is crystal clear, some of the words get pronounced a bit funny (especially in Wales!)
. Map is constantly updated, I’m yet to see the satnav vear off into a field or anything like that
. Very user friendly, almost a made for idiots interface
. The live traffic is always spot on. Displays how heavy the traffic is, how long you’ll be in it, distance (very handy in those long sections of average cameras)
. Speed cameras also kept up to date
. Displays any services on route and gives you a distance which is handy, can work out in your head roughly how long til the next place to stop for fuel or a rest etc
. Good routing, I’m yet to be sent down a tiny street that isn’t suitable. I always use it with an ounce of common sense but I’ve not seen it try and pull any horrors on me!
BAD:
.It can be slow. The processor in it can struggle sometimes if it tries to do too much at once, mainly when you first turn it on and you’re trying to find a destination while it’s still loading maps, finding satellite, connecting to traffic etc.
. Re-rerouting can be painfully slow. if you miss a turn or ask it to find an alternative route it can really jam up on you. I’m guessing partly because it’s analysing traffic and finding a route suitable for your dimensions.
. One feature I don’t get is that along with petrol stations and services it can display parking, but these parking symbols are always multi-storey car parks. Don’t see why they’ve put that in there on a truck satnav.
That’s my basic review. It’s a great bit of kit only hampered by its processor speed really. I’m yet to use it in Europe but I went to Ireland last year for a week (north and republic) and it was fine. Also worked fine on Jersey.
I think it depends what you want really. If you want something cheap and basic go for trucktables. It can’t be updated so you’re kinda stuck with the maps, speed cameras and speed limits on it but it’s only £70 or so.
If you want an all singing and dancing one, trucker 6000 is the one. I’ve never used a snooper so I can’t comment on how they compete but I imagine they’re much the same.
I used to carry A2Z for countless Cities,plus ordnance maps of most counties.
Started driving artics in 1979.(old school I think that makes me)
Now,I have a snooper,it’s not perfect,but it beats carrying all those books around.
But,I’ve become lazy about navigation,in fact,I feel to a certain degree that I’ve been lobotomised by it.
I’ve got a 5050 or whatever it is. Does the job to a point, sometimes have to use Google maps as well but thats normally just for the satellite view so I can pin point landmarks. I’ll tell ya something, driving a truck has made me a better map reader/direction finder.
Thanks everyone
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In conclusion I think what we can, well, conclude is:
- Newbies might feel safer having a fancy £300 sat nav to guide them at least for the first year.
- Experienced drivers (I daren’t call them anything else
), think we’re nuts Newboy. - The TomTom is the bees knees and from memory is cheaper than the Snooper.
Finally, we need a new thread on truck curtains which I seem to remember is Robroy’s specialist subject when he appears on Mastermind…unless he’s already appeared and is secretly one of the panel from BBC Eggheads? I’m not saying which I suspect he is as I also fear he’s a Jedi master.
Actually, I noticed the Phillips truck atlas costs about 3x as much as an AA roadmap, so scaled up a TomTom 6000 costing 3x a standard one actually makes sense. Btw, are there any A-Z series maps which include bridge heights?
trevHCS:
Finally, we need a new thread on truck curtains which I seem to remember is Robroy’s specialist subject when he appears on Mastermind…unless he’s already appeared and is secretly one of the panel from BBC Eggheads? I’m not saying which I suspect he is as I also fear he’s a Jedi master.
I applied but I was deemed too clever for them,… and just too godamm good looking to appear on tv.
Nearest I’ve come to looking like a Jedi is when I walked around the bedroom in the dark one night wearing a luminous condom.
I would assume you looked something akin to this, although for reasons of not wanting to be put on pre-mod, I have to leave a little to the imagination!
trevHCS:
0I would assume you looked something akin to this, although for reasons of not wanting to be put on pre-mod, I have to leave a little to the imagination!
The username is a combination of my 2 Christian names (Robert and Roy,…Royrob didn’t sound right ) rather than being a jock.
English as a Red Rose and twice as beautiful 
, never wore a skirt in my life. (Well I did experiment once after 10 pints of lager, but I never talk about it )
But cheers anyway.
robroy:
trevHCS:
0I would assume you looked something akin to this, although for reasons of not wanting to be put on pre-mod, I have to leave a little to the imagination!
The username is a combination of my 2 Christian names rather than being a jock.
English as a Red Rose and twice as beautiful
But cheers anyway.
Another illusion shattered! I had visions of you hollowing out a cow as a means to hide from the hated English army!