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Hi Folks.

I am due to depart for a 4 week tour of the South West & South of England from 3rd June (cant wait ) ... I do not own a Sat Nav system, but would like to print a route off the PC to take with me ..... With so many different Routefinders online , does any offer a "Caravan Friendly" (or perhaps "HGV friendly") route option ??

Any advice appreciated

Thankyou

Via michellin works well I use it a lot and have it set for with caravan, also give you a choice of routes motorways, non motorways, ecomony and secnic. We dont have a stat nav so use this site just print off the routes I require I also use it in Europe.  You can also save your routes to a folder on the site which is handy.

Sennen

Quote: Originally posted by mike142sl on 21/5/2007

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I think the 'with caravan' option just helps to calculate the costs per mile etc and the time aken to cover the journey.

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I use MS autoroute for both pre-trip planning and hooked up to GPS in the car.

It can be set to avoid certain classes of road where possible

Motorways & limited acces roads, Major roads, Minor roads, Toll Roads and finally ferries can each be set with sliders to love them or hate them and all points in between. I regularly use it for student drivers at work and it certainly does a good job of avoiding motorways when told to.

 I know a couple in a motorhome who use microsoft autoroute , you can convert your laptop into a sat nav. Hook up a gps receiver to put on window then to laptop and you can get voice command directions and map of route on your laptop screen. They have the advantage of a wide dashboard on motorhome to site laptop. Or i suppose if you have no room in vehicle  you could put laptop under seat and have a speaker attached to just to listen voice directions or an understanding OH to have laptop on lap. The same couple then use laptop with a usb freeview attachment as a tv.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/homepc/autoroute/top.mspx

Quote: Originally posted by kipperkid on 22/5/2007

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Mappy.com lets you specify you are a lorry.

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