Please will anyone advise on a sat nav for a motorhome. I would like
something that is suitable for lorries and doesn't take me under low
bridges or very narrow roads.
Sue

sue wrote:

> Please will anyone advise on a sat nav for a motorhome. I would like
> something that is suitable for lorries and doesn't take me under low
> bridges or very narrow roads.

Any of them that allow POI's to be downloaded/uploaded and used .. then
go to http://www.lowbridges.com/ or a n other POI website devoted to
the subject.

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In article <e712977c-fe31-425d-b857-0ce35d8fd972
@o20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>, sue says...
>
> Please will anyone advise on a sat nav for a motorhome. I would like
> something that is suitable for lorries and doesn't take me under low
> bridges or very narrow roads.
> Sue

No such thing really exists although some attempts have been made.
Tomtom have a version but it relies on data supplied by government
departments so is frequently wrong due to the massive lack of data the
HA and councils have on their road networks. Low bridge data IME only
really exists for the 1500 odd bridges that Network Rail give info for
and that a paper Truckers Atlas is as good as anything.


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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Paul - xxx says...
>
> then
> go to http://www.lowbridges.com/ or a n other POI website devoted to
> the subject.

That site doesn't have the 12' 9" bridge on the A488 south of
Shrewsbury despite me repeatedly submitting it. There are many other
bridges missing as well.


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On 20 May, 19:42, Conor <conor_tur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <77itnkF1h5e2...@mid.individual.net>, Paul - xxx says...
>
>
>
> > then
> > go tohttp://www.lowbridges.com/or a n other POI website devoted to
> > the subject.
>
> That site doesn't have the 12' 9" bridge on the A488 south of
> Shrewsbury despite me repeatedly submitting it. There are many other
> bridges missing as well.
>
> --
> Conor
>
> I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
> looking good either. - Scott Adams

Many thanks everyone. I wasn't looking forward to paying a couple of
hundred pounds for a sat nav
Sue

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Paul - xxx <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> sue wrote:
>
>> Please will anyone advise on a sat nav for a motorhome. I would like
>> something that is suitable for lorries and doesn't take me under low
>> bridges or very narrow roads.
>
> Any of them that allow POI's to be downloaded/uploaded and used ..
> then go to http://www.lowbridges.com/ or a n other POI website
> devoted to the subject.


But how do you use that information? Ideally you would be able to tell the
SatNav to plan a route which avoids all the POIs in a certain category - but
I don't know of any that can do that. So presumably you have to review the
route it choses, look out for low bridges and manually tell it to re-route,
avoiding any relevant sections of road - and then check the alternative
route, and so on, until you get a complete route with no low bridges? Sounds
like fun!
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sue wrote:
> On 20 May, 19:42, Conor <conor_tur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <77itnkF1h5e2...@mid.individual.net>, Paul - xxx says...
>>
>>
>>
>>> then
>>> go tohttp://www.lowbridges.com/or a n other POI website devoted to
>>> the subject.
>> That site doesn't have the 12' 9" bridge on the A488 south of
>> Shrewsbury despite me repeatedly submitting it. There are many other
>> bridges missing as well.
>>
>> --
>> Conor
>>
>> I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
>> looking good either. - Scott Adams
>
> Many thanks everyone. I wasn't looking forward to paying a couple of
> hundred pounds for a sat nav
..

You may be in for a disappointment.

There's this:-

http://www.thesatnavwarehouse.com/pr..._uk/index.html

Number one in a field of err... one, as far as I can tell.

I've never used it, and looking at the map coverage on the webpage, I'd
be extremely reluctant to fork out an extra 200 quid over the cost of
the system I currently use, which is Tomtom on a PDA, and keep an eye
open for problems. And yes, my 30 years of experience helps a lot when
it comes to remembering roads that I *really* didn't want to go along
last time. I drive large glass boxes full of people for a living, by the
way.

It will also conveniently fail to cover the areas you want to take a
motorhome in detail, because, give the choice, most truck drivers stick
to major, straight roads, preferably motorways. These are well covered,
as are major city centres. That impossible left/ right turn in the
middle of the village in the Cotswolds? You're on your own.... Or in my
case, with 53 backseat drivers all taking the mickey out of you....

I've seen a plugin for Tomtom that may help you on one of the trucking
websites, as in, you can tell it to avoid all bridges under a certain
height and it will use the Tomtom smart routing to recalculate things,
but there was no trial version, and it didn't look as if it would cope
with what I wanted so I didn't look too hard.

Ah, here it is:-

http://www.hgvsolutions.com/sales_tomtom.htm

Buy a Tomtom and a trucker's atlas is the best I can suggest.

Sorry not to be of more help.

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John.

Roger Mills wrote:

> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Paul - xxx <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > sue wrote:
> >
> > > Please will anyone advise on a sat nav for a motorhome. I would
> > > like something that is suitable for lorries and doesn't take me
> > > under low bridges or very narrow roads.
> >
> > Any of them that allow POI's to be downloaded/uploaded and used ..
> > then go to http://www.lowbridges.com/ or a n other POI website
> > devoted to the subject.
>
>
> But how do you use that information? Ideally you would be able to
> tell the SatNav to plan a route which avoids all the POIs in a
> certain category - but I don't know of any that can do that. So
> presumably you have to review the route it choses, look out for low
> bridges and manually tell it to re-route, avoiding any relevant
> sections of road - and then check the alternative route, and so on,
> until you get a complete route with no low bridges? Sounds like fun!

Dunno ... I googled tbh ..

I use a PDA with TomTom and though we tow a caravan low bridges aren't
much of a concern, I just look for the warning signs whilst driving ..


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'96/'97 Landrover Discovery 300 Tdi
Dyna Tech Cro-Mo comp

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Roger Mills says...

> But how do you use that information? Ideally you would be able to tell the
> SatNav to plan a route which avoids all the POIs in a certain category - but
> I don't know of any that can do that. So presumably you have to review the
> route it choses, look out for low bridges and manually tell it to re-route,
> avoiding any relevant sections of road - and then check the alternative
> route, and so on, until you get a complete route with no low bridges? Sounds
> like fun!

Indeed. Which is why I don't bother despite sometimes pulling 16'1"
high trailers. I just have a paper truckers atlas which has a fair few
low bridges listed but by no means all. That coupled with knowledge and
looking out for signs usually sorts most things out. I have, however,
ended up reversing over 1/2 a mile up a road for a low bridge that was
only signed at the bridge in the past.


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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
John Williamson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> There's this:-
>
> http://www.thesatnavwarehouse.com/pr..._uk/index.html
>
> Number one in a field of err... one, as far as I can tell.
>

I had to laugh at the description given in the above reference, including
the immortal words: "ensuring you reach your destination without a hitch!"

Presumably it dumps the trailer somewhere along the way! <g>
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