Practical guides on truck GPS navigation, low bridge avoidance, vehicle profiles and driving large vehicles safely.
A car sat nav plans routes for a car. With a caravan behind you or a motorhome under you, the lanes, bridges and weight limits it ignores are the ones that matter. What to set, and what to watch for.
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Network Rail recorded a bridge strike every five hours in 2024/25. Official investigations keep pointing at the same causes: unknown vehicle height, car sat navs, diversions and shortcuts. Here is what the figures say.
Read articleHeight, width, length, axles, gross weight, tunnel category and hazmat class: what each field in a truck GPS vehicle profile does, and what goes wrong when it is left on the default.
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Most bridge strikes happen off-route: on a detour, looking for parking, or on a short hop with no destination set. Background alerts cover exactly those moments.
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Why car GPS apps send trucks under low bridges, what a truck-specific router checks instead, and how vehicle profiles, offline maps and background alerts fit together.
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