I use a combination of google maps with directions and GPS and just keep looking up.
Radar19:
I ended up ignoring the lady shouting at me to turn around and just followed the road through the village. Yes it was a bit tight but it was doable, I’d be in even more trouble if I had tried to drive down one of those side streets to come back around. All the way through though it kept telling me to turn around using streets that aren’t restricted but are clearly too tight to get down and then back around. Overall it added another 10 minutes on my journey to follow the road round. Now, I would avoided all this if I was paying attention and remembered that is was the second roundabout that I needed to turn right at, not the first one.
Just trying to figure out which roundabout and roads you are referring to - there are only about three of the things in Knaresborough.
Roymondo:
Radar19:
I ended up ignoring the lady shouting at me to turn around and just followed the road through the village. Yes it was a bit tight but it was doable, I’d be in even more trouble if I had tried to drive down one of those side streets to come back around. All the way through though it kept telling me to turn around using streets that aren’t restricted but are clearly too tight to get down and then back around. Overall it added another 10 minutes on my journey to follow the road round. Now, I would avoided all this if I was paying attention and remembered that is was the second roundabout that I needed to turn right at, not the first one.Just trying to figure out which roundabout and roads you are referring to - there are only about three of the things in Knaresborough.
As you come in off the A1(m) on the A59 York road. The first roundabout sends you off into the village, the second sends you into a retail/business park. There is a 7.5t limit just beyond the business park which stopped me from coming back that way.
Thanks for the replies people. Usual good points and then the daft ones as expected.
Think I might just crack on for while longer using just a map book, the eyes god gave me and some common sense 
Like I said in the beginning it was nice to have to use your brain a little more and pay attention rather than just going with the flow of a truck sat nav. Which in my last job was a tom tom 7100 I think & was in no way perfect a few times !!
14ft trailer
Car sat nav + eyes…10 years in never hit a bridge,got stuck in a narrow street or fell of the edge of the earth.
People who claim “the sat nav took me that way” should have their licence revoked,a sat nav never assumes control of your vehicle it only recommends a route,so unless you have some sort of super sat nav not readily avail to joe blogs then your sat nav will never “take” you any way.
Talking from experience of a rookie mistake, do not use a car satnav! I now use a truckers atlas and speak to other truckers who have delivered to a place before I go to get the gen of best route in and out.
Boo9729:
Thanks for the replies people. Usual good points and then the daft ones as expected.Think I might just crack on for while longer using just a map book, the eyes god gave me and some common sense
Nothing wrong with that. Map book to get from A to B, satnav to find where you need to be in B. I tend to find I only really need Satnav for the last couple of miles.
Conor:
Boo9729:
Thanks for the replies people. Usual good points and then the daft ones as expected.Think I might just crack on for while longer using just a map book, the eyes god gave me and some common sense
Nothing wrong with that. Map book to get from A to B, satnav to find where you need to be in B. I tend to find I only really need Satnav for the last couple of miles.
gotta agree there
Even though I did say if your going to get a nav get a HGV one, that comment was if your going to rely solely on a nav
Have just replaced my Tom Tom car with a Garmin Car nav also a map mark one eyeball
I do goto a lot of different drops It is a help & I never stick it to my windscreen never have
i got a xgody truck and car satnav of eBay for £35 and to be fair for the cheap price it works really well
I use a snooper as a back up, first and foremost its the good ole paper map book and common sense.
I use the sat nav for two things in the main, one to give me an ETA at the destination & secondly to see how far it is. The rest is done by planning the route on a map.
BillyHunt:
to give me an ETA at the destination.
Do you try to “race” the ETA, or is that just me? 
Hi my trusty tom tom 825 gave up the ghost the other day so off to halfords to look at getting another unit
ended up getting a new tom tom go live 50 after being told yes it will do everything you want (car not truck)
well what a peice of junk.! no average speed . no waypoint .no bluetooth. many set up options not included
lay out of the screen is appalling .took it back for a refund today totally dissatisfied i feel tom tom have really got it wrong with the latest generation of sat nav much to simplified if i want simple i can pay £50.00 on e.bay and get more features
a mate of mine paid £35 on amazon for a 7 inch screen small tablet style which include mp3 video games . mounting .carry bag
cheap and cheerful it does the job.
Notimetoulouse:
Hi my trusty tom tom 825 gave up the ghost the other day so off to halfords to look at getting another unit
ended up getting a new tom tom go live 50 after being told yes it will do everything you want (car not truck)
well what a peice of junk.! no average speed . no waypoint .no bluetooth. many set up options not included
lay out of the screen is appalling .took it back for a refund today totally dissatisfied i feel tom tom have really got it wrong with the latest generation of sat nav much to simplified if i want simple i can pay £50.00 on e.bay and get more features
a mate of mine paid £35 on amazon for a 7 inch screen small tablet style which include mp3 video games . mounting .carry bag
cheap and cheerful it does the job.
I agree about the new style Tom tom,I think what they are trying to do is steer HGV drivers towards their £400+ HGV specific ones,better off picking up a older version car one off eBay or alike.
Notimetoulouse:
Hi my trusty tom tom 825 gave up the ghost the other day so off to halfords to look at getting another unit
ended up getting a new tom tom go live 50 after being told yes it will do everything you want (car not truck)
well what a peice of junk.! no average speed . no waypoint .no bluetooth. many set up options not included
lay out of the screen is appalling .took it back for a refund today totally dissatisfied i feel tom tom have really got it wrong with the latest generation of sat nav much to simplified if i want simple i can pay £50.00 on e.bay and get more features
a mate of mine paid £35 on amazon for a 7 inch screen small tablet style which include mp3 video games . mounting .carry bag
cheap and cheerful it does the job.
Exactly what I did with my TT Go 60, couldn’t believe it didn’t have something as basic as hands free and it wanted me to use my phone data to collect live traffic.
Got a Garmin and its miles better than TT. Not a truck version but I can simply carry on if I don’t like look of road its trying to get me down and it recalculates very fast. Have the cheapy ebay truck nav but hardly use it now. It’s def relegated to backup even if it does have truck limits on it
ckm1981:
I agree about the new style Tom tom,I think what they are trying to do is steer HGV drivers towards their £400+ HGV specific ones,better off picking up a older version car one off eBay or alike.
That’ll be the £400+ one that costs £330 if you insist on buying from TomTom, £270 if you buy from any number of online retailers?
Roymondo:
That’ll be the £400+ one that costs £330 if you insist on buying from TomTom, £270 if you buy from any number of online retailers?
Still extortionate compared to car version when it’s a software update only really. The hardware is exactly the same .
They are taking piddle just cos its a ’ truck’ version but market forces etc means they can
“The mk1 eyeballs are always the best…”
I agree. I have the later mk2 eyeballs fitted from god.com.
Should see the state of my ex-missus. Been retro fitted with mk1’s and the difference is amazing!!! Current missus looks great.
dcgpx:
Roymondo:
That’ll be the £400+ one that costs £330 if you insist on buying from TomTom, £270 if you buy from any number of online retailers?Still extortionate compared to car version when it’s a software update only really. The hardware is exactly the same .
They are taking piddle just cos its a ’ truck’ version but market forces etc means they can
They do lots of “car versions” - and (with a 5" screen like the 5150) the prices go up to around £260 if you want all the extra hardware (e.g. the hands-free, the mobile data SIM, voice control) that the truck version has. The issue is more perhaps that they don’t do a “Truck version Lite” with just the truck routing but without all the extras.