I don’t and never have owned a standalone satnav. I have a basic one in my phone which came with it and that serves me well enough after looking at a map. Still not sure about a road or place I am looking for? Google maps to scout ahead. Last resort is phone and ask
After a trip to Europe two’s up, the other driver had an Xgody sat nat and it seemed to work fine. So I bought one off Ebay and (it’s probably me, but) as I tried to make fine tuning adjustments it reset itself and then I seemed to be looking at a totally different(ugly, unusable) map. Can’t see me getting on well if it doesn’t remember what I asked of it 5 minutes ago. Anyway it seems to have frozen on me now so I may have to bin it!!
My old sat nav gave up on me the other day, 
so had to go back to old school, map and ask. But hey, the world did not end and neither did I get hot flushes and palpitations.
Got to admit though, to be fair I did miss it 
… despite what I said in previous posts on this thread a few months ago.
However I managed ok, even though I questioned myself if I was on the right road for some of the drops I have done before.
It just proves that when you use them you tend not to take notice of landmarks for next time, as you always did in the old pre sat nav days, so not really that good.
Anyway I’ve found a basic Tom Tom Europe Start 20 at Halfords for 80 quid, will try and get one next week, don’t need anything more sophisticated or expensive, so job done 
btw Unlike you younger guys, not having a week on the sick with a broken sat nav 
sorry couldn’t resist
Can’t be @rsed carting a pallet load of A-Zs round with me and I’ve found most of the night staff at 24hr filling stations ‘no speaky de language’ anyway so I’ve got a TT 7150 that hasn’t let me down in over 5yrs, including multidrop steel to rural smithies, ok I have to ignore it sometimes, must remember to plug it in for a map update If I know I’m going somewhere I haven’t been before I’ll look it up on google earth and maybe print out a map and streetview screenshot
As I know most of the runs by heart now it’s more an ETA, wake the ■■ up, or a human voice when V Feltz takes over on radio2
Since I packed in my full time job and went agency, Google maps and a TomTom 6000 trucker have been very handy… except for in Edinburgh city centre today…
I was in a merc 18t rigid, I adjusted the height accordingly but left the length as a artic, I looked down one of the roads it was leading me down and I thought to myself, No ■■■■■■ Way!!! Parked cars on both sides and a bend a bit further down the street, as far as tomtom knew I was in a artic.
Then after the deliveries were done, I set it back to depot. It directed me to turn left onto such and such a road, so left I went, then it wanted me to turn right, I had a look in and thought to myself… No ■■■■■■ Way!!! so carried on ahead and this road became Morningside Road, which I knew. I thought the point of entering your dimensions was to keep you away for small residential streets and keep you on the likes of A701, A702 ect…
It has not done me wrong for the few weeks I have been using it until Edinburgh today 
My snooper is 99% ok ,gets me round central London ok ,it just brings me into the street wrong way ,crane slingers forever saying we want you facing up/ down street ,you’ll have to go up to top ,turn round ( not always easy to screw it round on strand etc )!and then come back down .
If they could sort that glitch out with software I think it would be spot on
G6Bob:
Since I packed in my full time job and went agency, Google maps and a TomTom 6000 trucker have been very handy… except for in Edinburgh city centre today…I was in a merc 18t rigid, I adjusted the height accordingly but left the length as a artic, I looked down one of the roads it was leading me down and I thought to myself, No [zb] Way!!! Parked cars on both sides and a bend a bit further down the street, as far as tomtom knew I was in a artic.
Then after the deliveries were done, I set it back to depot. It directed me to turn left onto such and such a road, so left I went, then it wanted me to turn right, I had a look in and thought to myself… No [zb] Way!!! so carried on ahead and this road became Morningside Road, which I knew. I thought the point of entering your dimensions was to keep you away for small residential streets and keep you on the likes of A701, A702 ect…
It has not done me wrong for the few weeks I have been using it until Edinburgh today
The Satnav doesn’t have dimension information for all roads - only those which have marked restrictions (and even then coverage is nowhere near 100%). It attempts to keep you off the narrow, residential streets and rural lanes by sticking, as far as practicable, to A-roads and B-roads (with A-roads being given a much higher priority). In addition, there are roads (often known as C-roads) which are classified but don’t have a number. These will be used where no sensible A or B road is available. There are also “unclassified” roads (actually around 60% of roads in the UK fall into this group). The satnav will only use these as a last resort, although they may actually be wide and straight (e.g. the roads around any number of modern industrial estates and “logistics parks”).
Roymondo:
G6Bob:
Since I packed in my full time job and went agency, Google maps and a TomTom 6000 trucker have been very handy… except for in Edinburgh city centre today…I was in a merc 18t rigid, I adjusted the height accordingly but left the length as a artic, I looked down one of the roads it was leading me down and I thought to myself, No [zb] Way!!! Parked cars on both sides and a bend a bit further down the street, as far as tomtom knew I was in a artic.
Then after the deliveries were done, I set it back to depot. It directed me to turn left onto such and such a road, so left I went, then it wanted me to turn right, I had a look in and thought to myself… No [zb] Way!!! so carried on ahead and this road became Morningside Road, which I knew. I thought the point of entering your dimensions was to keep you away for small residential streets and keep you on the likes of A701, A702 ect…
It has not done me wrong for the few weeks I have been using it until Edinburgh today
The Satnav doesn’t have dimension information for all roads - only those which have marked restrictions (and even then coverage is nowhere near 100%). It attempts to keep you off the narrow, residential streets and rural lanes by sticking, as far as practicable, to A-roads and B-roads (with A-roads being given a much higher priority). In addition, there are roads (often known as C-roads) which are classified but don’t have a number. These will be used where no sensible A or B road is available. There are also “unclassified” roads (actually around 60% of roads in the UK fall into this group). The satnav will only use these as a last resort, although they may actually be wide and straight (e.g. the roads around any number of modern industrial estates and “logistics parks”).
Thing is, I was on the A702, I had just turned left onto it, straight down that road takes you back onto the city bypass, and it was wanting me to turn onto a narrow road… other than this the sat nav has been spot on 
dozy:
My snooper is 99% ok ,gets me round central London ok ,it just brings me into the street wrong way ,crane slingers forever saying we want you facing up/ down street ,you’ll have to go up to top ,turn round ( not always easy to screw it round on strand etc )!and then come back down .
If they could sort that glitch out with software I think it would be spot on
Yeah same for store deliveries, I wonder if, or it would be handy if, you could enter approach from… such and such street, just to save crossing the street and parking facing the wrong way
dozy:
My snooper is 99% ok ,gets me round central London ok ,it just brings me into the street wrong way ,crane slingers forever saying we want you facing up/ down street ,you’ll have to go up to top ,turn round ( not always easy to screw it round on strand etc )!and then come back down .
If they could sort that glitch out with software I think it would be spot on
Mine tried to send me down a 7.5 limit today. Not the end of the world, I hear you cry, but if I hadn’t known that area of Stoke from my misspent youth, I might have given it a go, with the destination only being about 300yds away. You can struggle to ride a push bike down there it’s that bad.
As I said, thank God I knew where the other end of the street was, and even then, I parked up a good way off and made sure (on foot) that I could get in, and that if I got in, I’d be able to get out.
Ive only just used a sat nav for about the 3rd time since I passed my car test in 1983 and to be honest I found out how easy it is to get into bother using a car one in a truck.
I had to get to a small town just outside Leicester a few weeks back and I didn’t have a bloody clue where I was going so I borrowed a sat nav.
Outside Leicester It sent me down a 7.5T restriction (or it tried to) and about 4 times after that, it plotted another 4 routes, each one down another 7.5T restriction
In the end I sorted the problem by pulling over and using the time honoured method of a road atlas.
From my very limited experience with em, get a truck one for a truck, if not, stick with a map.
Gembo:
Ive only just used a sat nav for about the 3rd time since I passed my car test in 1983 and to be honest I found out how easy it is to get into bother using a car one in a truck.
I had to get to a small town just outside Leicester a few weeks back and I didn’t have a bloody clue where I was going so I borrowed a sat nav.
Outside Leicester It sent me down a 7.5T restriction (or it tried to) and about 4 times after that, it plotted another 4 routes, each one down another 7.5T restriction
In the end I sorted the problem by pulling over and using the time honoured method of a road atlas.
From my very limited experience with em, get a truck one for a truck, if not, stick with a map.
I’ve been using sat navs now for around 7 years since they were launched basically,always used a car one because I’m too tight to buy a HGV one,it’s just a case of using a bit of sense together with a sat nav,my tomtom when I turn it on informs me that my maps are now 49 months out of date and advises me to update…roads don’t change that much certainly not enough for me to pay £40 to update my tomtom maps. There is of course the cheap £30-50 truck sat navs on eBay ect but there is also a thread on this site that is about 10 pages long which discusses them,unfortunately around 85% of posts are people posting up various issues they are having with them,so I won’t bother wasting my money.