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alix776 · Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject:

sorry i have to dissagree there totally tomtom is not totally usleess and has never yet taken me off a motorway unessacerily in over 3 years of usig it .

ive only used navman v1 an that was around 3 years ago and it was terrible i havent used navnam recently as yet

the best one for routing ive come across tat gave senible reroutes was the original aa navigator software
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monkeys · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 23

4. Adjustable/Customisable route generation to prefer certain types of road.
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is your garmin like the tomtom having to choose different speed limits for a & b roads etc. if it is did you have to play around with it to get it more suitable for hgv?

wallbanger · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 3

If you use a Tom Tom sat nav, it is no good using speed limit option, you are better off using quickest route, (you can't use both). This way it keeps on the main roads. I own a Tom Tom 510, Garmin 300, Becker, navman 530. all cannot be completly trusted if you are driving a truck. I have tried them all over thousands of miles. But the one that is best out of them all is 1 the Tom Tom, then 2 the navman, 3 becker which very slow at calculating. worst of all for trucks is the Garmin. it quite often tries to takes you up dead end roads, non existant roads,(roads that no longer exist because of a new or altered road that has been made), wrong way up one way streets, ect. I hope this is a help.

alix776 · Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject:

try igo you put multiple waypoints in so it will take you the way you want to go
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monkeys · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 23

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gangalee · Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:40 am Post subject:

Hello All

monkeys wrote

monkeys · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 29, 2006 Posts: 23

hi gangalee your rite about it having lots of options, ive lost a few changes that ive made to them but have always found them eventually, the one I play around with most is the “fastest” or “shortest” route “fastest” keeps the motor ways more so I would say is the best option for hgv in a unfamiliar area,

I wouldn’t mind trying to convert the low bridge pois and then consolidate them but would think that it would be time consuming and a bit tricky, have you got any advice if I try to attempt it?

unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

Hi Alix , I see your current favorite software is iGO and that you had some good routing in Scotland using the Truck etc settings . Will you be able to give an update on the pros and cons of this software for HGVs and motorhomes , including adding pois , route planning etc ? The latest Miomap v3 + Europe mapping ( same software I think ) is available soon for about £85 . I am thinking that this version on the sc would plug into my mio 168 and install the software , but to go back to TT6 I would have to swap the cards .
Bill

alix776 · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject:

hi bill ive just managed to pop home for a while and am out in the morning ill post a indepth over the weekend
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alix776 · Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

hi sorry its so late but here goes here the link for the reveiw tha lutz and I did http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/iGo2006.php

routing Ive not been up to scotland recently but one of the feature of iGO is the amount of way points you can put into it so you can be routed a specific way though the routing is pretty good anyway

adding poi there is a converter available from iGO for this im hopeing that oldie will make the download pois available for iGO but this may or may not be possible due to the way the poi are generated on the pgpsw

the mio v3 applicaion is based on iGO 2006 but has an easier menu to use

if you can id wait for the next version to come out
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Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

Thanks Alix , I had read the report and the discussion that followed .
Ravi talked about the mio C510 and said

uz2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi, I am an HGV driver and I use the Garmin Quest, It will do what you spoke off and it will store 500 waypoints in "my locations" and 50 in "recent finds" that means a possible 550 customer delivery points. These will be visible on the map and you can zoom in to 20ft and out to 500 miles,and you can scroll across the screen to where you need to go to and find it manually. Also if the ciggie lighter does not work in the truck it is possible to get 15 to 20 hrs on its own battery, all the others will only do about 3.5 to 4.5 hrs. On line at MNC for £171.

uz2

Eurotrucker · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 16, 2007 Posts: 4

Hello all. I have been using the tomtom 910 in my truck since it first came out with no problems. The speed is set to 54mph and have low bridge alerts in the UK.
I have used it all over europe with no problems at all.

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