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Looking for the best in HGV sat NAv does anyone know of the best buys and best sat nav for trucks?

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  • reeac
    reeac Posts: 1,430 Forumite
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    Loganfire wrote: »
    Looking for the best in HGV sat NAv does anyone know of the best buys and best sat nav for trucks?

    That'll be the model that always directs you down the narrowest lanes, right?
  • Loganfire wrote: »
    Looking for the best in HGV sat NAv does anyone know of the best buys and best sat nav for trucks?

    Tomtom, AA Truckers Atlas and MK1 Eyeball.

    HGV specific ones are, in the main, crap.
  • Tomtom, AA Truckers Atlas and MK1 Eyeball.

    HGV specific ones are, in the main, crap.

    Wot he said.

    Use sat nav to hone in on the last few streets of the journey, running all the time it is useful to 'see' junctions approaching, especially unsigned roads, and it comes into its own as a pocket sized A to Z of the country....a basic sat nav is plenty good enough.

    Always but always plan your own route via a proper atlas, AA truckers is ideal.
  • The comment made, been using eyeballs for some time with common sense, however it not my common sense or my eyeballs that i need to worry about it other muppets on the road, using a normal sat nav has its problem when your steering a 44 ton wagon on the streets of a city. Looking at a sat nav or at street signs watching for muppet cutting you up and getting beep at when you slow down to double check some think like a street sign, I know even using a truck sat nav you still need common sense that no brainer but it take some of the work out for you which means i can pay a little more attention on your driving or the kid that runs in the middle of the street.
  • Loganfire wrote: »
    I know even using a truck sat nav you still need common sense that no brainer but it take some of the work out for you which means i can pay a little more attention on your driving or the kid that runs in the middle of the street.

    You miss the point of a HGV satnav.

    The idea of the HGV specific satnav is you put in the vehicle weight, type (artic or rigid), length, width and height and it is supposed to create an appropriate route for you so you don't get routed through weight limits and unsuitable roads compared to how a normal satnav would route you.

    However in practice, they're as much use as a chocolate fireguard at doing this and you might as well just use a normal satnav and save a few bob.
  • Chill Loganfire, how do you think we managed for the last 40 or 50 years hauling lorries with no power anything round the streets before the motorways and by passes came the norm, try going from M1 to Gatwick with no M25 @ 16' high.

    Sod the beepers, they'll have to wait a few seconds.

    Follow the sat nav devil via its own planned route and you will learn no routes of your own.

    Sat nav is a childs toy for those who don't drive professionally, you will not see a proper lorry driver following one, he might be using one as back up, or for traffic info or as a street finder, he will never in a thousand years follow the route it plans.
  • Sat nav is a childs toy for those who don't drive professionally, you will not see a proper lorry driver following one, he might be using one as back up, or for traffic info or as a street finder, he will never in a thousand years follow the route it plans.

    This. I find Satnav is only of any use for the last few miles of a journey.
  • Paradigm
    Paradigm Posts: 3,656 Forumite
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    Sat nav is a childs toy for those who don't drive professionally, you will not see a proper lorry driver following one, he might be using one as back up, or for traffic info or as a street finder, he will never in a thousand years follow the route it plans.

    I don't understand this reluctance to accept satnavs, or maybe it's just the bit in bold above ;)

    It's a map, that's all it is. Ok it moves & talks but it's still a map.

    I've been using a TomTom with HGV maps for around 5 years & I can only think of 2 times where I didn't like where it was sending me so ignored it & it re-routed without a problem.... I never ended up in a farm yard, stuck under a bridge, on Brighton beach.

    They're superb tools, if you use them right. Follow them like it's the gospel & there's a good chance you'll end up stuck, use your common sense/eyes & you won't have a problem.

    C'mon, get with it guys... it's not the 60's now ;)
    Always try to be at least half the person your dog thinks you are!
  • Quinny_2
    Quinny_2 Posts: 1,351 Forumite
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  • Paradigm wrote: »
    I've been using a TomTom with HGV maps

    Best way of doing it :)

    If you have a tomtom with a memory card slot, the HGV maps are not too hard to find online.
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