I’m currently looking at getting a new satnav. Main 3 are obvious choice tomtom garmin and snooper.
I like idea if garmin as gives warnings for everything and its all free where as tomtom everything seems to charge extra and snooper mentions speed cameras but doesn’t mention about mobile camera or average speed cameras. I use to have a tomtom and it was rubbish to be honest constantly lost reception or couldn’t find a signal so bit worried about tomtom again as one had before that one battery was rubbish. But views would be good from others. All I want is a satnav that gives height and weight restrictions etc. Saves routes and big screen, and must do all types of cameras and speed updates and traffic reports and map updates pref for free as garmin does
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TomTom 5150 is the best SatNav for truckers on the market today.
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Dieseldoforme:
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TomTom 5150 is the best SatNav for truckers on the market today.
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I’m not saying you’re wrong…but is that based on having extensively tested them all over thousands of miles or is it cos you like the tom tom? After a new one myself so appreciate any comments.
I have a Garmin motorcycle sat nav and it runs rings around the tom tom rider for example.
I have tested a tomtom, an all-singing-all-dancing one, for thousands of miles and a garmin, for thousands of miles. and when I went for a little tour of eastern europe last month, for a few thousand miles, a co-worker offered to lend me his tomtom, as I have no gps in my car. but I declined from the free offer and went to the garmin dealer and paid €35 to rent a garmin.
Truckulent:
…is that based on having extensively tested them all over thousands of
miles or is it cos you like the tom tom?
I have quizzed dozens of Drivers about their SatNav in driver waiting
rooms and truckstops up and down the land.
TomTom comes out on top by far.
I have used three makes myself and returned two of them.
I have kept the TomTom.
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Dieseldoforme:
Truckulent:
…is that based on having extensively tested them all over thousands of
miles or is it cos you like the tom tom?I have quizzed dozens of Drivers about their SatNav in driver waiting
rooms and truckstops up and down the land.TomTom comes out on top by far.
I have used three makes myself and returned two of them.
I have kept the TomTom.
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Trouble is how many of the other drivers had experience of the other options? As I said based on my own experience I would tend to go for Garmin.
Reckon the tom tom looks good but then again so does the Garmin… 
Dieseldoforme:
I have quizzed dozens of Drivers about their SatNav in driver waiting rooms and truckstops up and down the land.
I have had the opportunity to run a TomTom (7000 truck) alongside a Garmin truck-specific device (sorry - don’t know the precise model) for a couple of weeks. There was not a great deal to choose between them TBH. However, the TomTom routes were consistently more “truck friendly” than the Garmin (which appeared rather too keen to direct us along unsuitable (though still perfectly legal) roads. Both had free-to-air traffic warnings, using the RDS-TMC system.
But now that I have the TomTom 5150 with TomTom’s “HD Traffic”, there really is no contest - if only TomTom had retained the Itinerary Planning function of earlier models…
I’ve owned and used TomToms for several years now and have never had any problems with obtaining/keeping a satellite signal - EXCEPT when our new fleet of Daf LFs arrived complete with aftermarket GPS Tracker systems - some of these consistently interfered with GPS reception. I discovered that the installers had left some of the Tracker’s wiring coiled up behind the dash, and it appeared that whenever the unit transmitted its location info back to base, this coil caused RF signals to be picked up in the DC supply, effectively filling the cab with RF interference. I fixed it in all cases by simply relocating the coiled-up leads.
I have no experience of using a Garmin on the bike, although I do recall the ride leader on a cross-channel jolly taking us for three laps of a hypermarket car park before leading us onto the Autoroute by going the wrong way round a roundabout. He blamed the (Garmin) satnav that he was using. On the same ride we also went along a forest track that had clearly been closed to traffic for decades. When we went to Austria the following year, I opted to make my own way using my trusty Rider 
TomTom bike mounting hardware is however a different kettle of fish - it was crap on the early models and is still just as crap now!
Roymondo:
I have had the opportunity to run a TomTom (7000 truck) alongside a Garmin truck-specific device (sorry - don’t know the precise model) for a couple of weeks. There was not a great deal to choose between them TBH. However, the TomTom routes were consistently more “truck friendly” than the Garmin (which appeared rather too keen to direct us along unsuitable (though still perfectly legal) roads. Both had free-to-air traffic warnings, using the RDS-TMC system.But now that I have the TomTom 5150 with TomTom’s “HD Traffic”, there really is no contest - if only TomTom had retained the Itinerary Planning function of earlier models…
I’ve owned and used TomToms for several years now and have never had any problems with obtaining/keeping a satellite signal - EXCEPT when our new fleet of Daf LFs arrived complete with aftermarket GPS Tracker systems - some of these consistently interfered with GPS reception. I discovered that the installers had left some of the Tracker’s wiring coiled up behind the dash, and it appeared that whenever the unit transmitted its location info back to base, this coil caused RF signals to be picked up in the DC supply, effectively filling the cab with RF interference. I fixed it in all cases by simply relocating the coiled-up leads.
I have no experience of using a Garmin on the bike, although I do recall the ride leader on a cross-channel jolly taking us for three laps of a hypermarket car park before leading us onto the Autoroute by going the wrong way round a roundabout. He blamed the (Garmin) satnav that he was using. On the same ride we also went along a forest track that had clearly been closed to traffic for decades. When we went to Austria the following year, I opted to make my own way using my trusty Rider
TomTom bike mounting hardware is however a different kettle of fish - it was crap on the early models and is still just as crap now!
The Garmin will route you down tracks if you don’t tell it not to. Most errors such as this are down to the user not the unit. Someone that needs a satnav to find their way out of a car park is hardly navigator of the year!
The tom tom rider tends to use main roads more which on a bike is not really what you want. Bike wise the routte planning software is miles better for Garmin.
Still reckon I’ll give the tomtom a go this time though.
That’s the point - the Garmin truck device was given exactly the same vehicle dimensions (height, length, weight, width) as the TomTom, yet still consistently guided us along routes which were not really best suited.
The latest Riders allow you to specify twisty roads (you get to choose just how much “twistiness” you want). Sadly my Mk2 Rider doesn’t do this - although my own preference is to spend a few minutes with Google Earth, plot my preferred route and download it to the TomTom. As a next-best option I opt for “shortest route” instead, which generally takes in more than enough goat tracks
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tango boy:
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Why don’t you Get Lost Tango ?
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I have a Garmin Nuvi 645T (T denotes Truck version!)
Bought it second hand off ebay as it was recommended to me by a colleague.
I paid to update to the most up to date maps. (£49 if I remember rightly)
I’ve used it for a year now all over the UK, up to Stockholm and down to Lyon & Barcelona.
General routing is fine on the whole, but it does occasionaly try to send me down a pedestrianised road (one that has been closed to traffic for years!) so the maps are not kept up to date that well.
Also when driving down Fulham Palace Road it keeps telling me it is a non-truck road and tells me to turn down one of the residential side roads.
Another annoying thing it does is it tells me to take the exit slip road from a dual carriageway, only to take me across the roundabout and back on to the same dual carriageway again. Grrrr!
Traffic alerts are complete fiction.
But saying all that, this model is several years old now, so maybe the newer Garmins are better.
Anyone else had that same problems with the 645t ?
So I’m looking to replace it with a new one.
So I’ll be watching this thread for inspiration.
That could explain why my old tomtom didn’t work as it was always used in my old works car that had a tracker. But don’t think I can afford to risk it. Looking at the snippet s7000 its hit bugger screen tv MP3 player and hands free, and is the best when it comes to speed alerts so think ill be getting that. Just get so much more for the money
Pjelle:
That could explain why my old tomtom didn’t work as it was always used in my old works car that had a tracker. But don’t think I can afford to risk it. Looking at the snippet s7000 its hit bugger screen tv MP3 player and hands free, and is the best when it comes to speed alerts so think ill be getting that. Just get so much more for the money
I have one and its crap when you go into London with it,it decides that with the restrictions of some roads at night is for 24hrs and goes bonkers when you drive down said roads in the day.Also Friday it wanted to send me under a 12"6 bridge when I put the trailer height in it at 13"9
Waste of money IMO…
Think they all have there faults in one respect or another.i just can’t bring myself to trust tomtom again.thing I like though with the garmin is free updates for life.but the amount of times got landed on m25 in stand still the tv will be useful lol
Dieseldoforme:
tango boy:
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Sometimes, but id rather work it out myself instead of being told where to go. im still quite young but feel like one of the old skool drivers
Pjelle:
thing I like though with the garmin is free updates for life.
You get that with TomTom now. Although with both TomTom and Garmin, it’s not really “free updates for life” it’s “free updates for the lifetime of the unit” - You can reasonably expect this to be a few years at least, but TomTom won’t actually put a figure on it (nor will Garmin). If they stop supporting your device in 3 years time, then that will be the end of your “lifetime map updates”. Also TomTom will allow you to transfer the Lifetime Maps to someone else if you sell your Satnav - Garmin specifically state that they do not permit this, so the buyer would have to purchase a fresh licence (at a cost of £80 currently).
Dieseldoforme:
tango boy:
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He has a point that’s why; I’ve got a TomTom xxl and I feel it was a waste of money compared to Google Maps on my phone.
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Muckaway:
I’ve got a TomTom XXL and I feel it was a waste of money
compared to Google Maps on my phone.
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Using a phone whilst driving is illegal.
The penalty could be the loss of your HGV privilage.
I’m surprised that you are allowed to condone law breaking
A TomTom 5150 is a sound investment for proper Drivers.
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Muckaway:
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It makes friends notice.
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