I'm thinking of upgrading my CoPilot app to Truck / Motorhome

[britcoms]

I looked into upgrading my CoPilot to the truck/motorhome version, and wanted your views if you had done it, not so much the cost, but if it did a good job of keeping you on a good route, avoiding low bridges, etc, Liz normally does the look out for signs, but she's getting old and may need replacing soon.

I have been using the motorhome version of Co-Pilot for the past 3 years, much of it in France and it has never let me down.

 

[Geek]

I know that Wandering Bird on YouTube switched from Co Pilot to Tom Tom Go Camper Max ( an earlier version of the one I've been looking at - see above) and she now endorses that. She covers a lot of miles and although she previously swore by Co Pilot she now uses the Tom Tom. See here: Video is three years old.

I've always found Wandering Bird to be an excellent guide: do the exact opposite of what she advises and you'll be fine.

 

[Boris7]

Having driven 44tonne trucks I have never found a reason for a truck sat nav, that said in my home village there’s an Industrial unit that if you approach from the village you have to cross a hump batched bridge with a high risk of grounding, then you have to pass under a low bridge.

Evri have recently rented that unit, there’s a big sign in the village telling trucks not to use the road, another sign saying vehicles over 11’ 9” STOP and turn now. And everyday trucks either ground out on the hump back bridge or stop at the low bridge, only last week I had to explain to a so called truck driver that the best way to unground the trailer was to increase the height of the trailers air suspension.

Locals are now parking cars to not allow space for trucks to get out of the village in that direction, won’t be long now till cars are smashed.

But it’s easy to see why it happens, the unit is 1/4 mile off an A road with no restrictions, going through the village is 400 yards shorter so TomTom etc takes you through the village.

They’ve Trucks have to reverse 900 metres and turn into a housing estate on the blind side to get turned around.