Am sure it has been asked before, but hey I am here to be irritating!!! Just wondering what tech you use to navigate? At the moment mine is map, sat nav, and an local big A2Z. Got a job doing about 10 drops and pick ups around Manchester a day in an artic. Pressure is on to get them done between 8am and 3pm. If you know the drops it is a doddle, if you don’t it can get to be hard work. So one day I stopped at a Burger van for directions, the woman took out her phone put the company’s name in google I assume and come back with a picture of the building they where in. She did not know the company but she knew the building. So I thought that,s for me. Problem is it is a minefield out there regarding smart phones and tablets and sim card deals. Would prefer a tablet, maybe a netbook, that uses a sim card. Maybe a large screen phone. Advice is wanted and needed. Don’t want a contract, pay as you go is preferred.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Google and Google maps are your friend , I use them all time on iPad as it gives you an aerial view of site and some times there’s a truck in picture so you know where loading bay is
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I search the address on google maps and use that as a map. I don’t follow a sat nav. I have one, but only use it if google maps has no signal, or to see the name of a turning I’m coming up to.
Either aponoa on windows phone or co pilot truck on iPhone.
Also if your out in the country side ask a postie farmer or local shop
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Hi lads ,Is there a low bridge or width, weight app to go with google maps ?
Just found HGV Parking £1.99 looks good 
Albert1:
Hi lads ,Is there a low bridge or width, weight app to go with google maps ?
Not sure about google maps but if I’m not 100% happy my Snooper sat nav is sending me the right way (even though it’s a truck one) then this map book is a must to double check.
Google maps for a quick look prior to delivery but would never be without my garmin 760.
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Google maps, street view and my cheap Chinese sat-nav. Gets me me where I want UK and Europe no probs.
TomTom trucker for route and always Google maps to have a look at destination first.
Albert1:
Hi lads ,Is there a low bridge or width, weight app to go with google maps ?
Google low bridges U.K. And it opens up map with all low bridges.
Google Maps on my phone, Philips Truckers Atlas to check bridge heights and weight limits if I’m not sure.
I find Google Maps far better than a traditional Satnav mainly because its got (mostly) the exact location of a company on it. Occasionally they’re not the right place but you can go onto Google Maps on a computer and move the marker, someone will check it and alter it. I’ve done that for a few HJ depots and the changes have been put into place in less than a day.
FuzzyBhoy:
Albert1:
Hi lads ,Is there a low bridge or width, weight app to go with google maps ?Google low bridges U.K. And it opens up map with all low bridges.
Thanks
Mk 1 eyeball and decent bridge height map for route finding, a lorry driver selects their own route, car drivers who wouldn’t find their way to the hairdresser/home/the supermarket without one follow a satnavs chosen route, lorry drivers do not.
To compliment the above any old sat nav (but live traffic and speed camera siting database useful for the obvious), lorry version not necessary because you already know your route is safe from the map, is brilliant as a pocket sized street atlas of the country for final honing in on your destination and on a trip to a new site its handy to run the pratnav because its invaluable in spotting unmarked or hidden junctions/streets.
I have a company supplied satnav now, its never used for destination because traffic will only be highlighted on the machine chosen route, if run on traffic only then you can keep on eye on your whole route (probably not the route the machine chose anyway) and the all important surrounds.
My truck satnav will all ways send me via Hangar lane for any thing on or just off north circular but if my drop is near Brent cross or east of that I will come in via M1 and exit same way I will do the same if I finish near M11 I will take that out
The distance may be longer but it’s quicker than sitting in a queue to get on to hangar lane roundabout then fight along A40
Nokia has a free sat nav on Android called Here, not the smoothest of layouts and gets confused when you arrive at a destination and leave again, but for finding obscure addresses it picks them all up, great in Europe as well- had a top of the range tom tom for a trip to Czech Republic couple of years back, could not get me to an out of town hotel for love nor money, this free offline app from Nokia took me to the front door and unloaded my bags for me.
Google maps always a good back up but don’t like the navigation system
… find that the old Mk1 brain has, and still does, stand me in good stead!
Alfa1M:
Nokia has a free sat nav on Android called Here, not the smoothest of layouts and gets confused when you arrive at a destination and leave again, but for finding obscure addresses it picks them all up, great in Europe as well- had a top of the range tom tom for a trip to Czech Republic couple of years back, could not get me to an out of town hotel for love nor money, this free offline app from Nokia took me to the front door and unloaded my bags for me.Google maps always a good back up but don’t like the navigation system
This actually started off on windows phone as part of the os. Since the buy out Nokia have marketed its here services else where having said that the in built maps that I can download for free on my windows phone work just as well even for navigation
FuzzyBhoy:
Albert1:
Hi lads ,Is there a low bridge or width, weight app to go with google maps ?Google low bridges U.K. And it opens up map with all low bridges.
All ?
I doubt it, bound to be a few missing. Same as with every trucker map or sat-nav I’ve ever seen or used.
This new Ordnance Survey map should have them all on though.