All truckers would not want to find themselves atop their heavy goods vehicles on a hassle. To them, it’s like getting to a dead-end considering the bulk of their HGV and the huge amount of energy to find a different route that allows their transit.
So for every HGV trucker, the question they ask all the time about satellite navigation devices is: “Is it sure to keep me from going to roads unsuitable for my HGV?”
Well, ProNav have always pursued perfecting their truck road routes. It takes into careful details that the satnav for truck drivers helps in avoiding those roads marked in the map data as unsuitable for HGVs. Where there really are no actual width restrictions in the ProNav map data, it still gives low priority to small roads when it calculates any road route. This alone should give any HGV trucker or operator advanced information of the road ahead.
Navteq map data, also used by Garmin and other leading GPS manufacturers, includes many of the roads marked as “unsuitable for HGVs”. This feature proves very helpful. And yet, it does not mean that HGVs should avoid every road and turn marked as “unsuitable for HGVs” This is because many of the marked roads do not really have actual width restriction. It simply means we are relying on the roads known to Navteq and consider the marked road worth double checking.
Still, the data right now that Navteq has always been helpful and handy to its users maneuvering those bulky HGVs. It helps a lot to get a fair warning about the fitness of the road, than getting there and really finding it restricting and difficult to pass.
Navteq has issued a statement that they are welcoming reports of new or missing map data from HGV drivers and everyone else. Like a counter-checking from the people, Navteq solicits for information on roads that are actually fine for HGVs to go through, or if there are optional routes that might be available.
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Tags: HGV-Sat-Nav, ProNav, Sat Nav