Sat Nav for towing

HillClimb
HillClimb Forum Participant Posts: 45
edited January 2017 in Parts & Accessories #1

Whilst our car has built in Sat Nav, it is aimed at routes suitable for a car rather than towing - so I thought I'd search for HGV route planner resources hoping to input our combined car/caravan data. After a quick search found this http://www.freightjourneyplanner.co.uk/, it accepts height, weight, width and lenth data and it can display the widths of the roads it recommends etc.

I can't vouch for its recommendations, we will be trying them over the next two weeks - but it appears useful so I thought I'd share this info.

If you know of routes where the software/SatNavs tend to typically recommend unsuitable routes - it would be useful if you visited this website to test whether it successfully avoids problems you are aware of.

Hope this helps.....

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  • HillClimb
    HillClimb Forum Participant Posts: 45
    edited July 2016 #2

    Sorry for the misleading title - the website I noted is of course only accessible when you are online - so it is not really a SatNav App. But we've just used it for all our route planning, printed off the recommended routes and we can force our InCar SatNav
    to use these routes

  • davida71uk
    davida71uk Forum Participant Posts: 31
    edited January 2017 #3

     Hi HillClimb, what car SatNav are you using? I'm interested in doing something similar after leaving it to the car today trying to avoid an accident on the M6.

  • Lyke Wake Man
    Lyke Wake Man Forum Participant Posts: 238
    edited January 2017 #4

    all theese built in sat nav are usless for towing, get a sat nav for L.G.V. and  caravans, you cant go wrong

  • m0rrisman
    m0rrisman Forum Participant Posts: 75
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    edited January 2017 #5

    Sorry HillClimb don't recommend this router. just put in a route from my house to a point in the new forest which is on a bus route. it sent me on a bridle way/forest track even though I put in 4ton and 20ft long

  • Pippah45
    Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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    edited January 2017 #6

    Don't forget you still need to use the CC directions to a site even if you have a Camper Sat Nav - some sites are ok but others are not. 

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