Has any one any ideas , what is the best sat nav on the market as I am looking to buy one but would like one that has all the bells and whistles on and freeview tv. Cheers
A tomtom go 520 / 530 / 720 / 730 with the truck maps will be fine. You can get a 7000 truck from services for around 460 quid or so, but a 150 quid 520 will do the same once you do the truck maps.
NONE are perfect, theyr’e just a guide. You can’t beat local knowlege and never ever trust them 100%, but my 520 truck is the best sat nav I’ve seen, and I’ve used a lot including dedicated systems.
nip in Smiths and buy a map! its cheaper!! 
…chris
if you can pick up a older tomtom 910 its the only one with the hard drive and full european and Usa/Canada maps you can download loads of music and link your phone to it by bluetooth. It comes with microphone and has its internal speaker but can be linked to external speaker or if the radio has an aux in socket use a line to run it through the radio. altogether one of the best tomtoms made.
Saved my dosh and bought a Philips Truckers Britain Atlas !
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Saved my dosh and bought a Philips Truckers Britain Atlas !
You will never get lost all the time you have a tongue in your head!
Chazzer, I got one of them, made me laugh when going through Oaklahoma it said " at the roundabout turn left" roundabout!!!
I like TomTom satnavs, we’ve got them from the old 700 up to modern cheap models which cost us less than £100 each. They all have postcode search & some have bluetooth for the phone which works very well. I constantly hear about drivers going down lanes that no one should go down but the sat nav gets the blame. At the end of the day, the satnav isn’t driving.
We haven’t bothered trying the ones with so caled lorry routes on them because a lot of our delivery points takes us down lanes which lorry routes probably wouldn’t follow. We therefore combine the use of the sat nav with checking maps for alternatives & calling delivery points to confirm whether or not we have to go down some of the lanes.
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Basilbrush:
I like TomTom satnavs, we’ve got them from the old 700 up to modern cheap models which cost us less than £100 each. They all have postcode search & some have bluetooth for the phone which works very well. I constantly hear about drivers going down lanes that no one should go down but the sat nav gets the blame. At the end of the day, the satnav isn’t driving.We haven’t bothered trying the ones with so caled lorry routes on them because a lot of our delivery points takes us down lanes which lorry routes probably wouldn’t follow. We therefore combine the use of the sat nav with checking maps for alternatives & calling delivery points to confirm whether or not we have to go down some of the lanes.
BB
I have the lorry routes (truck map) on mine, and a lot of my places are similar, no hgv’s etc, it just warns me that there’s no hgv route - would I like to use car route instead… Click yes, follow it and you find it’s still routed you round the low bridges etc and it’s only the very end that’s car route.
Same when coming back out of the places, either set route going on main road, or just click yes to car route.