Best Sat Nav for 3.5t box please ?

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Hi,
Nervous box driver here - expecting everything from a herd of camels to getting stuck in a narrow one way lane :-O

So, looking for the best Sat Nav for a 3.5t Equitrek horsebox please ?
 
If your really worried go for a truck sat nav, otherwise they will all do pretty much the same, I'd always say go for one that does traffic updates. I've used Garmin's for years ( this year mine is on 77k and I'm always driving either a 3 ton van or 3.5 ton. Have to be a bit more aware on the bigger vans...

Also my current sat nav is a bit like a tablet I can zoom in and out and look around at the area so if I don't like the look of a route I can easily see what else is around me. And I can google places, and send it from my phone to my sat nav ( bloody thing even tells me the weather lol )
 
I have a snooper one

good thing is you can add the weight and length of your vehicle so it doesn't take you down tight lanes.

Eventhough I had a 3.5 - I entered 30foots and 7.5 tonnes just to be sure!
 
I use maps on my iphone, I bought a holder and I keep it plugged in so it is always charging. I have found it much better than my old tom Tom
 
I've used Garmin and Snooper - Snooper was better as you could input specific calcs whereas my Garmin one just had a truck and bus setting but it didn't seem to change the routes from a car route and I got sent down some slightly unsuitable routes!

I do use google maps on the iphone but it's not in anyway way tailored and just gives what the car route would be. Generally ok but if you want something that's more sensitive to height/weight or narrow roads, I wouldn't use that.

A 3.5t is actually easy to drive and there aren't many places that you can't go down but endless roundabouts mean you lose time and I've been down some narrow roads and tight turns in the past.
 
I still use a very old TomTom, but nothing beats good preparation with google street view. Look up your route first (i.e. the one the satnav wants to send you down), and once you get to the smaller roads, "drive" it in google street view to see if it's suitable.
I have a 3.5t van, so not too worried about narrow lanes, as we can get down most roads that a car can go on. But I have yet to find a satnav that will pick the least windy road (i.e. minimal amounts of roundabouts, straight roads), which is what I'd be really after, so I haven't upgraded to something else. HGV ones will only look for width/height/weight restrictions, but not whether the route will give your horse a good ride.

I also don't want anything too fancy on my satnav, because I've learned the hard way how easy it is to be distracted by a device that you can/need to interact with (zooming, panning, considering/choosing alternative routes). My old style setup forces me to pull over if I want to e.g. check traffic or change routes, which is IMO the safer way to travel.

However, the best "satnav" bar none is a friend in the passenger seat with a phone and google maps/traffic. Always up to date, and safe to interact with!
 
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