A friend of mine who got stuck up a narrow one-way street in Lincoln towing a caravan. If you can make the sat nav keep you on A-roads, it should be OK? otherwise I think you have to get one which is far more expensive, like ones the lorry drivers use, where you can set your width and length. We use our car satnav in the MH as a guide only, because it wants to cut corners using C-roads so we were almost wedged on a narrow hump-backed bridge.
I Find if you set the satnav for the fastest route instead of shortest it will take you via A roads and duel carriageways but you may end up doing more mileage....
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We have a Garmin. When towing I always plan the route first using Garmin's Basecamp program on a computer (using via points to get it to go the way I want). Once I am happy with the route I then transfer it to the sat nav as a route. Basecamp is a free download from Garmin's website.
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like a few others my current Tom Tom sat nav doesn't allow me to opt for towing a caravan ,so I normally have it set to eco' route which up to just has worked ok as it tends to keep you away from the narrow roads.
I also looked at the caravan club 'snooper' but at the minute it's just a tad too expensive for the actual amount of use it would get.
Not everybody's thing, but I use my ipad on mobile network.
Apart from having mobile internet unlimited it is a great sat nav.
Depending on the app.
You can use smaller pads as well, the ipad is quiet big and blocks yiu the view wrong installed.
I have a fixed mounting on the dash so it's not too much in the view.
Not more the a 7inch nav would be anyway.
She said it looks like on of toes things the police uses in there cars.
But, she likes it, as she can play on it looking for caravan sides we passing along the road, shopping etc.
In my case, I been driver for some years, but stoppt it now with all them stupid regulations and crap they come up with,
I have the option of vehicles, such as lorrys, vans, cars, HGV, or specific vehicle types, life traffic update, roadworks, loads of other things like places to visit, landmarks, shortest, fastest, economical routes, block out B roads, ferries, toll roads and so on, re routing in seconds, etc.
I found out is a lot more advanced as a 200£ sat nav.
I also have a tab3 which comes without mobile network but the sat nav options are the same, apart life traffic updates.
It works on gps signal. 7 inch.
And it comes cheaper as a big sat nav.
My other half is using it since I showed her how to work it.
She throw her tom tom next day in the bin. Ha ha
Don't need update where you pay for every 6 month as the app updates as soon you in reach of wifi.
I wouldn't use my phone, just too small.
Most satnavs have a 'lorry' setting but for the majority it just adjusts the predicted journey time and not the route taken. The more expensive ones take into account low bridges and narrow lanes etc.
Even these can be caught out by combinations. The snooper satnav I had, tried to take me up a road to an archway which was at right angles to this road and impossible to tow through. If it had taken me up the next road it would approach the arch directly and it would have been ok.
They can store dimensions but not work out all possible permutations.
TomTom's* can 'import' custom POI files, which you download from the internet. I believe there is POI database file for low bridges available (this was originally how people installed speed can locations and warnings, before tomtom offered their own service).
*Probably other brands of satnav can, but I would only ever buy a tomtom personally. Having used just about every type over the years, over tens of thousands of miles, the tomtom routing and traffic (worth every penny) has yet to be beaten. I used a satnav that came from Aldi the other week and I was absolutely terrible.
My Garmin nuvi had.....supposedly.....loaded up with 2014 maps. Well we are at a fantastic campsite just outside Madrid with a new...in 2009..light railway, connecting to the main metro. Doesnt recognise/find it. Built in 2007, opened in '09!!
We have a Pioneer Avic f250 ,its a lot of money but its worth it in our opinion ,adjustable according to the speed and capabilities of your vehicle and having two aerials we have never found anywhere out of its coverage..... Yet!
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Topic: Sat navs
