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Are road navigators of any use to Caravanners ie can you choose a large vehicles option to avoid low bridges and narrow roads

The other night somebody else put on an incident were they had followed there sat nav and got into a really sticky situation with their caravan. Somebody else replied that they put in lorry mode and have had no problems. Hope this helps you

try the search facility on Sat Nav+ there's a current thread under the towing billboard.

 Some sat navs are not reliable . I had one that was sending us on a wild goose chase . Kept trying to make us turn at every junction , stick to map now. http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/classads/forsale/view.asp?ad=6-11-8-13378&subj=Lunar+Mercury+CE+1995

Ihave got a Garmin nuvi 300 You can set it to car, motorbike,truck, bus, even pedestrain its bril you can carry it or clip it in its holder never had a problem.

Pete Barratt 

Sat Navs, some people love them, some people hate them. I toured France and Spain this summer and while it wasn’t 100% perfect, it was still pretty good and better than using maps. Ours (mio 269+) has a Lorry mode which does try to avoid narrow roads etc. However, it did try to send me down a lane once where I know there is a hump-backed bridge that I would never get over while towing, but I guess that’s not shown on a map either.

best tip i can offer is to pick the fastest route, no the shortest. then set the speed to 56MPH (lorry speed)  look at what on offer. ( with tomtom you can take bits out, if you can see a problem). in 3 years or running tomtom, in france and spain as well as the UK, i have only ever had 3 problems. hope that helps.

floppy