TomTomTruck Sat Nav GO Expert, 7 Inch HD Screen, with Custom Large Vehicle Routing and POIs, Traffic Congestion Thanks to TomTom Traffic, World Maps, Live Restriction Warnings, Quick Updates Via WiFi

Great item

Have been using this for about a month and as a new driver, it’s been invaluable. Works the same as other Tom Tom products, so getting used to it was easy. The screen is massive, which helps orientation with the road ahead. The live updates don’t use too much data and are really useful. I did have issues with it avoiding the Dartford crossing, but a bit of time spent setting it up properly resolved this. So far so good. If I could get it to work as a phone hands free, it would be perfect. The newer truck does this anyway, so not a big problem. Expensive but worth it.

The large screen makes it so good. It connects to the holder so easy. I picked where i wanted it and stuck it to the windscreen 1st time and it has never fallen off even in this minus 6 degree weather we have.It connects to my mobile data which gives me live traffic which is really good. I have it set to make a noise when speed cameras and to tell you what the noice is so now it makes a noise and the voice tells you fixed camera ahead or noice and you are in a speed zone which is good, I then look at the Say Nav to find what the speed zone is and next to it, it tells you whatspeed you are going which ie really good.I set it uo to my height, length and weight of truck and It has never taken me to low briges or over weak bridge. I now have complete trust in it. I set up the post code it lets you check your settings of truck press drive and off it goesI have total trust in it to get me around the UK. It is maybe a little expensive but worth the money. If you buy on Amazon you can chose to pay it in 3 ammountsFAB RAB

I've used this sat nav for about 2 months before writing this to try and give a fair review. I upgraded from the original tom tom trucker so was interested to see any significant improvements over the previous model.The display is more detailed being hd and the touch screen is more responsive with less lag. The best improvement by far though is the processing speed, typing a postcode or manually searching an address is so much quicker and it loads up 3 routes to choose from in seconds. Whilst driving if you want to find alternative routes it takes about 5-10 seconds to load up 3, rather than what felt like minutes on the old model. Live Traffic is accurate but needs connection to your phone via Bluetooth just remember to have your personal hotspot turned on in phone settings otherwise it wont connect, this seems to be the issue other reviews mention which really isn’t the sat navs fault.Id say on average its been about +95% accurate in routing but there is that 5% or less where it can try to have you do strange things like go past a junction to come back on yourself for no apparent reason or thinks a road has a weight restriction when it doesn't, so don't rely completely on this device or any sat nav for that matter you should always plan your route and use common sense. Having said that its never took me to a low bridge.The maps are clear and it zooms in on lane guidance if at times the lane guidance display can stay on too long. A nice feature is it displays weight or height restrictions on the map for roads that are coming up but they are quite small so its difficult to read. For some strange reason its doesn't display the current time and I know I've got the time on the dash and tacho but I always used the sat nav for the time. So tom tom if your reading this make that an option on your next update as there is plenty of room on the route bar when its set on wide.Do I recommend this sat nav and yes is the answer. I've given this 4 stars but it would have been 5 if it wasn't so expensive. Its not perfect but I doubt any sat nav is but in my experience this is the best sat nav tom tom has released.UPDATE, I'm not sure what's happened but since an update there are too many times when this sat nav will route around main A roads to avoid a weight restrictions that are not there. few examples are A127 southed on sea, A168 Thirst , A40 to Whitchurch from M50 . Until these issues are sorted I'm changing to one star.UPDATE 2- Tom Tom have mostly fixed the issues of weight restrictions with updates that apply to side roads which the sat nav thought were on the main A roads! so I have increased my review to 4 stars

Starting with the positives. The screen is clear, there's little delay in the menus or route finding. Connecting to the home wifi and phone bluetooth takes a few attempts, but once you know what to do it's fairly straight forward. It has never taken me to a low bridge, not even once.So, the negatives, I hope you brought your reading glasses because I'm listing everything I can think of right now.My problems started with this device on the first day of using it. It absolutely refused to attach to the windscreen for longer than 5 minutes. Before you think it yes I read the instructions, I knew about the screw mechanism. On the 3rd attempt, whilst driving, the device fell off the wind screen again which then hit the dashboard and somehow pulled on the cable. After pulling over, re-attaching to the windscreen yet again, plugging it all back in, I noticed it wasn't charging. The USB socket on the mount had been loosened by the fall and the USB cable could no longer hold a connection unless it was pulled towards the front, which makes it fall out of the USB slot. This was the first day.... at least it remained fixed to the windscreen afterwards. This continued through out my usage of the device, 7 months of frustration.The routing is not very good. On more than one occasion it's sent me down pre-planned roads which it decides it wants me to make a u-turn on. Usually at a mini roundabout in the middle of a village. On one occasion the sat nav took me to some lights at a main road and wanted me to turn on to a road that was on a bridge above me. I will admit these instances are rare, probably happened maybe 3 or 4 times, but it is further frustration. On many occasions, usually at the same places, it has taken me off the motorway then back on the same motorway it just took me off. I mean, literally, off the exit and back on to the motorway at the same roundabout. This is very common like I said it's usually the same places it tries to do it.Some occasions I had to take rigid bodies out on multi-drop and it simply refused to find a business address. It has the addresses of the stores neighbours on both sides, but not the actual business's address. So you'll get a list of addresses at a post code and I want number 52 and it won't be present, but 51 and 53 will be. Why?! I just don't understand how it has it's neighbours. This causes big problems in some instances, where the place you're looking for is not on a street but the address is correct. Some times it won't find an address at all! It's always handy to keep your phone with you at these times, Google has a knack for finding businesses, even the very obscure ones (just make sure you have a mount for that too and avoid trouble).One massive source of irritation is the way the screen zooms in at motorway exits, this is so bad, utterly terrible, I genuinely think it was a design flaw. It displays a motorway exit covering the whole screen in a janky zig-zag way with all of the lanes with arrows on them. You cannot see the round-a-bout you're about to enter, so you have no idea what exit lane you should be in and you wont until you're at the top. It's a bit late by then though, so you're either stuck taking the exit lane you went with and going on a magical mystery tour for 5 minutes while the sat nav decides what to do or you got lucky. You can turn this off, thankfully giving you a better chance. It's so bad though it shouldn't be there at all. A truly genuinely awful addition. I cannot overstate how bad this is.Then there are the little inconveniences...Like the height, length and width of the vehicle. For some reason the device is stuck in meters. I admit this isn't a massive deal, the VOSA plates have everything in mm, but it shouldn't be like that. Everywhere else on the road it's feet and inches.The phone disconnecting every time you turn the device off.Only one truck pre set, so every time you change trucks you need to reconfigure the device.The way the camera zooms in and out making you loose track of distance when glancing at it, the distance is different every time you glance at it so you loose your sense of scale.You don't get certain updates unless you pay a subscription fee, which is insane for a device this expensive.Many MANY little annoyances like that, only there by design to irritate you.I decided I was going to replace this device after it took me down a closed street. This is the 5th time it's done this, with the phone connected I should add. This one was a bit of a doozy. The main road was closed, the diverted traffic was sent down some tiny single lane one way street that I could not get this artic down. Parked cars on both sides of the main road prevented a spinny, so I had to 333 point turn this lorry. Eventually deciding to get it half stuck on the tiny one way street trying to get the trailer angle right to sweep the tractor unit round. All this in traffic, who were equally confused at the closed road. The funny thing, as I'm driving away the device demanded I make a u-turn... changing the route multiple times to take me back to that road.Today the mount has failed utterly. It just wont connect to anything, tried different cables I've confirmed work. I just give up with it.I'm replacing the TomTom with a Garmin dezl. Hopefully it's better. I can't afford two expensive paperweights.